Netanyahu Adviser Moves Out of the Shadows

[Jan Klimkowski]

My emphasis:

He had been barred from entering the US by the Bush administration after implication in a spying scandal. A Pentagon official, Larry Franklin, jailed in 2006 for passing secrets about Iran to the Israel lobby group AIPAC, was reported to have met Mr. Arad frequently.
When the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, arrived in Jerusalem in April for meetings with Mr. Netanyahu, then prime minister-designate, her staff quietly suggested he remove an official — a hint that Mr. Arad’s presence was not welcome. Mr. Netanyahu instead sent out Sallai Meridor, the ambassador to the US, who resigned soon afterwards.
The Obama administration has since restored Mr. Arad’s visa and agreed to his political rehabilitation, not least so that he will be able regularly to meet his US opposite number, Gen James Jones.
Mr. Arad spent more than 20 years in Mossad, much of it working in the intelligence section, before being appointed as Mr. Netanyahu’s foreign policy adviser in his first government in the late 1990s.

Brand Obama.

Shiny new bottle... Same old shite.

In fact, it may even be worse.