McGreevey's sexual exploits, irrelevant when
compared to the damage by this copulation induced security breech. We've got a spy who bedded a Governor and attempted to insert himself, no pun intended, into a sensitive security position!  What was compromised?  What information did he pass on?  Do the citizens of New Jersey have anything to worry about?  Are they now all imbedded and categorized in the Mossad databases, their own intimate details available for anyone to sum up?  What about our military bases and technology? Who else did Cipel contact and seduce?  Had Cipel been an Arab, the scandal would raise the rafters of alarm commanding a relentless media investigation!  Why the white wash?  Why paint a foreign spy as a victim?

As for McGreevey's confession, based upon the above consider another possibility.  His coming out over a homosexual affair doesn't make a lot of sense and the fact the media is focusing on this issue rather than the big issue, espionage and the compromising of a state office, leaves me to believe the following better explains what is going on.

Intrinsic to espionage, intimidation and blackmail serve to dish dirt on the target and guarantee behavior.  When McGreevey attempted to install Cipel as Director of New Jersey Homeland Security, no doubt if at the time he was unaware, he quickly learned Cipel's clandestine occupation.  Cipel in turn threatened to expose his homosexual affair with McGreevey if McGreevey didn't continue to work with him. He would out him and destroy his career, family and future, utilize sexual harassment and get the New Jersey taxpayers to fund his retirement. 

expect the standard reactions

Looking forward, expect Israel and Cipel to deny everything, claim to be the tragic victim, (though the last time I looked, it's a little hard for a military superpower or a man in his thirties with military training to be much of a victim.  Besides, he's changed his story three times in as many days). Cipel will likely escape to Israel eventually where he is protected from prosecution as a spy or otherwise; this is standard operating procedure anytime Israel or one of is citizen gets caught anywhere in the world engaged in mischief.  It's always the same, though the order or a step may be left out from time to time:

Deny, feign shock, promise to investigate, deny again, claim victim, deny again and feign major shock, refer to anyone doubting, questioning or accusing of anti-Semitism, remind everyone of the German holocaust and tie it to this event somehow, reaffirm all persons questioning are anti-Semitic, deny denying, blame everyone else, claim super victim and demand reparations for victimization, while throwing in one last charge of anti-Semitism for good measure.. 

Sound familiar?   It should. It’s a proven model.  Simply consult Israel's reaction to their attack on the USS Liberty, their murder of Rachel Corrie, their murder of American citizens the Salah's this July, their New Zealand Israeli Spy Scandal in June, their killing of Australians for the passports last year by Mossad, their invasion of Lebanon in 1982, their withholding information from us that caused the murder of the 241 Marines in Lebanon in 1983...the list is endless. So are the same old excuses.

Americans  have a right to be angry about the Cipel affair and we have a right to do something about it.  That doesn't make us anti-Semitic.  This doesn't make us anti-Jewish. It makes us Americans.

The moral? There is much more to this than a simple spy story. Expect Cipel to follow the above pattern to a 'T' over the next year.  Expect Americans who love our country to object, and object loudly.  And expect every politician, journalist or activist to be called anti-Semitic who objects to Israel's spying on us, again. 

The beginning

The McGreevey/Cipel falling out appears to apex in March 2004 though the relationship began four years ago. Based upon the treatment of other politicians sucked into this quagmire, it's possible McGreevey realized he was being blackmailed into working with Israel and betraying his country thus spending April, May and part of June trying to decide how to deal with this no-win situation.  If he didn't play along, he'd lose his family, his job and his reputation.  If he acquiesces, he'd continue as Governor, but he'd be committing treason by knowingly allowing a foreign agent to continue under his watch. The viciousness of the media attack and its protection of Cipel the spy, by journalistic standards are suspicious.

The lawsuit going public remains the one issue out of place.  Threats of public disclosure often force those being handled to give up suggesting McGreevey called Israel's bluff and sacrificed himself rather than betray his country further.  Such impertinence equals declaring war by Israeli image standards and likely Cipel's handlers figured the threat would be enough to force McGreevey's hand.  But he didn't do that, going public instead and now whole mess bounces about, causing more problems and ultimately more lies and more questions.

Former Congressman Paul Findley's book "They Dare to Speak Out" covers Israel's blackmailing and intimidation tactics, how they collect information and use it to gain compliance from Presidents on down. Everything Findley and Ostrovsky talk about in their respective books presents itself in the McGreevey/Cipel affair. Currently US politicians readily sacrifice US interests, as evident in the types of bills passing, the unending yet increasing foreign aid to Israel and the blocking of UN and international law while rewarding Israel's war crimes and immoral conduct.  Ostrovsky explains how politicians are targeted, used and kept in line via blackmail and threats.  Findley provides numerous examples of the results.  The McGreevey/Cipel situation follows the classic case study of a successful Mossad assignment.

The Real Game

The homosexual focus on the McGreevey/Cipel scandal, though irrelevant provides a digestible reason for the rest of America, perfect for tabloids and the dumbing down of reason and inquiry, effectively parsing investigation and writing it off as immorality thou it fails to stand up under scrutiny.  The shame from adultery, even a homosexual affair lacks motivation to sacrifice everything. Fifty years ago, it would work.  Not today. Thankfully the heavily unconstitutional Anti-hate Crime Legislation the ADL continues to push through congress isn't law yet.  If it were, we could not even mention or criticize a practicing homosexual, Israel or Governor McGreevey's seduction by both without being accused of a hate crime. We would be censored and our criticism a crime. Fortunately, this bill isn't in effect and we still have our first Amendment rights in this country leading one marvel at our media's continued avoidance of the real issue: a spy in the Governor's bed.

Therefore the question is, why now? Why is McGreevey sacrificing everything now when he could have just refused to run for office again?

Based upon human nature, only two motivations conjure up the strength for complete sacrifice, including sacrificing one's family:

Protecting one's faith,

or

Protecting one's country.

As an admitted homosexual and adulterer, protecting his faith fails the Litmus Test; he wouldn't be in this situation if he followed his faith and paid tribute to refusing each of the seven deadly sins.  Therefore, religion is not McGreevey's motivation although this situation no doubt will cause him to find it. Tremendous challenges generally do.

However, protecting his country does make sense.  He is a politician, a corrupt politician, but still a politician. He didn't need to do this, come out and give up everything. By doing so he said no to blackmail.  He said no to treason.  He said no to Israel and he is losing everything because of it; his public humiliation represents a very public threat to others and every politician in this country knows that. This idea should not surprise Americans. 

Combine the smear job on McGreevey with the media's bypassing of the espionage element, the packaging of Cipel as a victim and the past instances detailed by Victor Ostrovsky and Paul Findley, this makes sense: McGreevey sacrificed his family, his career and his reputation to prevent being manipulated into further damage by espionage. Why else sacrifice everything? Nothing else makes sense given the devastating personal cost…nothing.

Additional Reading: Articles Offsite

Sex, Lies, and Terrorism
How did Golen Cipel become New Jersey's 'anti-terrorism' czar? by Justin Raimondo

Israel at Work in the McGreevey Scandal? An Israeli / Rove Connection? The McGreevey Scandal By WAYNE MADSEN, CounterPunch

McGREEVEY SEX SCANDAL WAS ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE OPERATION, SAYS INTELLIGENCE EXPERT Foreign Policy/Intelligence Columnist Andy Martin

Israeli Espionage: When a Honey Trap Goes Bad A Governor Resigns: By John Anast, Al-Jazeerah, August 15, 2004

Man Says McGreevey Made Sexual Advances
By JOHN CURRAN, Associated Press Writer

Former McGreevey official sought $50 million, aides say -CNN
 

Books cited or used  in this article:
These three books will give the average reader a full understanding of the power and infiltration of the Israeli government in the US Political, Academic and Media circles and how the slander and libel of "anti-Semitism" is strategically used to shut people up, squash investigation and destroy the tenants of the US Constitution. All three should be required reading, right along with George Orwell's 1984 for any person who cares about America and wants a return to the republic we once were.

By Way of Deception, Inside the Mossad
Victor Ostrovsky, former agent

They Dare to Speak Out : People and Institutions Confront Israel's Lobby
Congressman Paul Findley, (ret)

The Politics of Anti-Semitism
by Alexander Cockburn (Editor), Jeffrey St. Clair (Editor)