By Debbie Schlussel
Our government purposely looks the other way whenever it hires an Arab or Muslim for national security-related work. That’s despite the fact that millions of them support America’s death.
But Orthodox Jews–well that’s a different story. The Pentagon not only put them under suspicion at military bases nationwide–sending out an express, written alert that they’d spy for Israel. And the baseless, acute focus on Jews like David Tenenbaum is the reason people like Nada Nadim Prouty got away with spying for Hezbollah at the FBI and CIA.

You’ll recall that in May, I alerted you to the Tenenbaum case. David Tenenbaum was Detroit-area employee at an Army tank facility–TACOM. He was falsely accused of spying for Israel, and as “evidence,” FBI agents seized his four-year-old daughter’s coloring book during a raid deliberately conducted on the Jewish Sabbath. I noted that the Pentagon Office of the Inspector General conducted an investigation and concluded that Tenenbaum was discriminated against because he was an Orthodox Jew.
Now, the official 62-pages Inspector General report is out. And today’s Detroit Free Press has an excellent front-pager by David Ashenfelter about Tenenbaum’s decade-plus ordeal at the hands of the U.S. Army. While there is not a lot new in it, there is the news that because of the Army’s anti-Semitic witchhunt, David Tenenbaum’s important work to strengthen the armor of Humvees was dumped, which resulted in more American troops being killed in Iraq and Afghanistan:

The bogus investigation prompted the Army to scrap Tenenbaum’s 1995 project to improve the armor on Humvees, a decision that proved fatal to American troops who were sent to Iraq and Afghanistan in woefully inadequate fighting vehicles.
“The discrimination in this case ended up costing American soldiers their lives,” [Tenenbaum’s lawyer, Mayer] Morganroth said.
Morganroth’s associate, Daniel Harold, said Tenenbaum’s persecutors “have blood on their hands.”

Other interesting info:

The report said TACOM hired Tenenbaum because he speaks Hebrew, which officials viewed as an asset in working with Israel on joint projects.
Simonini and investigators for the Defense Investigative Service — now the Defense Security Service — and the 902nd Military Intelligence Group began to suspect Tenenbaum of passing secrets after coworkers complained about his behavior. . . .
The report said Tenenbaum wore a yarmulke and adhered to strict Jewish dietary rules, prompting him to bring kosher food to work rather than joining coworkers for lunch at restaurants. Colleagues questioned why he was allowed to leave work early on Fridays to prepare for the Jewish Sabbath, the report said.
The FBI looked into the complaints but found no evidence of wrongdoing.

So, let’s see, they hire him because he speaks Hebrew and can more easily deal with the Israelis. Then, the fact that he speaks it–and is an observant Jew–means he’s spying for Israel?

David Tenenbaum

TACOM officials wouldn’t comment on the report. Neither would John Simonini, a retired lieutenant colonel and TACOM’s counterintelligence chief who spearheaded the investigation.

Why was this man, Simonini, allowed to hold on to a job as a “counterintelligence chief,” when his only “evidence” that a man was spying for Israel was that he is an Orthodox Jew, speaks Hebrew (the reason he was hired for the job in the first place), and that his young daughter h as coloring books? Incredible. No wonder we are losing the domestic war on terror.

Kids’ Drawings, Shlomo Carlebach Songbook Among FBI “Evidence” of Tenenbaum “Spying”
Oh, and here’s the “warning” Pentagon intelligence sent out to beware of Jews–they are spies, you know. But Muslims, let’s bend over because 3,000 Americans on 9/11–and countless others throughout contemporary decades–is not enough:

The report suggested that Simonini and others may have been influenced by a warning from the Defense Investigative Service in 1995 that Israeli intelligence officers were trying to exploit nationalistic feelings in Jewish Americans. . . .
Unable to persuade the FBI to launch a spy probe, the report said, Simonini and others had Tenenbaum’s boss request a top-secret security upgrade for Tenenbaum, which he didn’t want because he worked on unclassified projects.
The request resulted in a 6 1/2 -hour polygraph examination in February 1997 . . . .
Tenenbaum said . . . the polygraph examination was a horrendous interrogation session conducted by a belligerent examiner who repeatedly accused him of passing secrets and demanded a confession.
” ‘I’ve done other Jews before, and I’ve gotten them to confess, too,’ ” Tenenbaum said the examiner told him, according to the report. . . .
The Office of Inspector General said in the report that it couldn’t determine who was telling the truth because the session wasn’t tape-recorded and the examiner destroyed his notes.
Tenenbaum said the examiner wouldn’t let him record the proceeding, the report said.

Gee, I wonder why. What was he trying to hide?

But the examiner’s report prompted the FBI to launch a criminal investigation, put Tenenbaum and his family under around-the-clock surveillance and searched his home on a Saturday — the Jewish Sabbath. Agents carted out 13 boxes of the family’s belongings, including their children’s coloring books.
Because an FBI agent neglected to seal the search warrant request, the news media learned that Tenenbaum was under suspicion and swarmed his home.

And I’m sure the Bureau “neglected” to seal the warrant “by accident.”

In February 1998, one year after the raid, Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Leibson in Detroit advised the FBI in Washington that the investigation had failed to turn up any evidence to charge Tenenbaum with espionage.
“There is no question that if evidence existed which would prove this case, then these agents would have found it,” Leibson wrote to the FBI.
The OIG report said the lead FBI agent on the case, James Gugino, testified that he believed Tenenbaum’s claim that he had done nothing wrong.

Moreover, after all of this, a government watchdog group says the Pentagon tried to get the Inspector General to remove the statements about how the Army engaged in anti-Semitism against Tenenbaum.
The problem here is that, even with the 62-page Inspector General’s report, not a single thing has been done to prevent this from happening again. Meanwhile, a certain other religion–um, “Religion of Peace”–continues to target Americans all over the world, including on our own soil, and continues its efforts to infiltrate our military, intelligence, and counterterrorism agencies.
While the Army, the FBI, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern half of Michigan were laser-focused on non-spy David Tenenbaum, Hezbollah spy Nada Nadim Prouty had free reign to do an Islamic terrorist group’s bidding.
Sadly, after eleven years of David Tenenbaum’s ordeal and seven years after a terrorist attack that murdered 3,000 U.S. civilians–conducted by another religion, Islam–nothing has changed.

Beware! There Are Jews in This Town!