Real Spy Arrest - but No Jews - Two Day Story

Colleague Bob Samet writes that the Post uses the Pentagon-AIPAC investigation as an excuse to write critically about Jewish power, money and influence in the USA.

Here is further evidence.

Contrast the recent Post reporting of alleged Israel - AIPAC - Pentagon spy affair with this weeks comPost articles about recent State Dept - Taiwan spy affair.

Post ran at least 9 articles in 8 days about the former affair.....before any arrests....and indeed, still no arrests.....and without reporting any evidence. No sources are named....only innuendo.

Post covered the later affair twice....only after an arrest. All sources are named. No innuendo about colleagues of arrested official.

Although senior Powell aide arrested for espionage for Taiwan, Post makes no allegations against Powell.....or Taiwan for that matter.

In short, the two Post articles make no implicit criticism of Taiwanese power, money and influence in the USA.

In contrast, Post reporting of Pentagon non-mole included duel loyalty smears of prominent Pentagon Jews.....based on accounts of anonymous allegations and second or third hand hearsay. Role of AIPAC repeatedly questioned. Israel called a threat.

Here are the two comPost articles about the arrest of the State Department China expert.

Scroll below for our log reports about comPost scandalous coverage AIPAC scandal.

Powell Aide Gave Papers To Taiwan, FBI Says

By Jerry Markon
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, September 16, 2004; Page A01


A former high-ranking State Department official who is one of the nation's leading experts on China passed documents to Taiwanese intelligence agents and was charged yesterday with concealing a trip to Taiwan, court papers say.

Donald W. Keyser, who was elevated to principal deputy assistant secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs this year, made the trip last year, according to an FBI affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Alexandria. Keyser, 61, who advised Secretary of State Colin L. Powell on China issues, met with one of the agents in Taipei last September during an official trip to China and Japan, the affidavit says.

Tailed by the FBI in recent weeks, Keyser and two Taiwanese agents conducted a series of covert meetings around Washington. At a meeting July 31 at the Potowmack Landing restaurant, the affidavit says, Keyser handed the Taiwanese two envelopes "that appeared to bear U.S. government printing.''


Arrest Shocks Former State Department Colleagues

Highly Regarded Expert on Asia Is Accused of Passing Documents and Taking Secret Trip to Taiwan
By Carol Morello
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, September 17, 2004; Page A08


Donald W. Keyser developed a reputation as a brilliant and erudite expert on Asia in a career than has spanned more than three decades in the State Department.

According to his former colleagues, Keyser was a fluent speaker of Mandarin who, during his three tours at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, returned from meetings with Chinese officials, sat down and batted out well-organized cables reporting the gist of the talks -- all without notes, the awed colleagues said. When making public speeches, he delivered extemporaneous remarks in lucid and concise prose.