diplomats from the security council in germany who know about the details of these talks have never given any information to the israelis not as a result of spying but as a result of conversation and diplomacy, that s nuts. i want to know where the information came from and my first guess, is not that the israelis are bugging us i wouldn t rule it out. i saw it all in 25 years in this business i just want to see the proof. they deny it. what are they supposed to say, it s a spy business. they re an ally they say we don t spy on our friends. but still, once again, mr. mudd your friends at the u.s. intelligence they say we caught them doing this you re saying i don t know that that s so sure do you think they re wrong? i think what s happening here is we have a fundamental lack of trust between two governments that are close allies israel and the united states. the u.s. side is frustrated that the israelis are undercutting the talks by going directly to allies and going directly
the iranians. they understand that is our position. one thing that s not am bbiguou in this agreement is the sanctions relief and what s not included in the sanctions relief. i want to be as clear as i can be to the international community, to the businesses, to the banks who think that it might be open season for business in iran. it s not. we will continue to enforce our sanctions very, very vigorously. president rouhani s tweet was, quote, atmosphere has changed. before there was question of whether more sanctions would be imposed or not. now there s a freeze on sanctions. and there is a freeze on sanctions. there was an agreement not to impose new sanctions authorities. there s absolutely no freeze on our enforcement of the existing sanctions. i would urge president rouhani and everyone else to stay tuned. because we re going to enforce our sanctions. anyone who is violating our sanctions, seeking to evade or circumvent our sanctions, we will take action against. but you can
united states. despite the risk they could become a triple agent. yes, that s always a risk. the real issue is, it s a big risk. is there a big payoff? you have to put some judgment in the hands of your intelligence agency and certainly the president of the united states to say, is it really worth the risk? are we going to get people that we can count on? and there s a risk, as you pointed out, of a triple agent as well. that goes with the spy business. speaking of spy games, there s another story which involves a very prominent israeli-born hollywood producer who is now at least on one interview acknowledging he did work for israel s government. importantly, according to an author whom we ve talked to, he was working on the nuclear issue, helping to find you know, to get the centrifuges for israel, was recruited back in
processing one of the critical chemical elements in cocaine, and they also allow those drugs to be able to be moved freely, and while they claim they want to clean up their country, the fact is that there s very little proof of that. so i think taking away the funds will actually deliver a significant enough hit for those people, for that government to say, wait a second. maybe we need to have a closer look at our policy regarding u.s. security interests, particularly with our spy business as it relates to terror. this is serious stuff. nor a national security analyst in your opinion is it likely that snowden has already given whatever information he can to china and russia? i think that that s a good question. i think we have to assume that whatever information snowden had on his little martyr ask pa paid, escapade, which is what it is i believe we have to treat this particular case as if
embassy in moscow. russia s foreign ministry ordered him to leave that country. both the cia and state department have not commented on the incident. let s go to david ignatius on this. david, strange that a kroichlt office cia officer, if he is that would be carrying around a written type contract that he is recruiting a russian agent. what do you make of all of this? it does look like bad trade craft as they say in the spy business. we have all read so many spy novels that when a real spy case comes along like this our immediate reaction is, gee, that is just like in a novel but this is a real case. you can see from the anguish on that young man s face how difficult it was to be arrested. there are some odd aspect of this. first, he was caught in front of a very well-known area where foreigners live in moscow. not the place for a clandestine