{"id":3223,"date":"2001-10-24T15:30:27","date_gmt":"2001-10-24T20:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3223"},"modified":"2024-09-26T06:25:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T11:25:32","slug":"army-revokes-clearance-of-jewish-major-who-passed-polygraph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/24\/army-revokes-clearance-of-jewish-major-who-passed-polygraph\/","title":{"rendered":"Army Revokes Clearance of Jewish Major Who Passed Polygraph"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Arieh O’Sullivan reports<\/a> for the Jerusalem Post<\/em> in an article titled, “US Army strips Jewish Major of security clearance.” Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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JERUSALEM (October 24) – The US Army has revoked the security clearance of a Jewish reserve officer, forcing him to give up command of an intelligence unit, The Jerusalem Post has learned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The officer, Maj. Shawn Pine, claims it was only because of his close ties to Israel and reflected an inherent anti-Semitism in the US intelligence community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pine, commander of the 300th Military Intelligence Company (Linguist) of Austin, Texas, holds dual US-Israeli citizenship and is also a veteran of the IDF’s Golani Brigade and the US Army Rangers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A specialist in counterintelligence, Pine said he was given top-secret clearance after going through a detailed background investigation and polygraph in 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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…Trouble started last summer when his periodic reinvestigation for his security clearance came up and he disclosed that he had been called up to reserve duty while in Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“I believe that they are revoking my clearance on the most spurious of reasons, a function of profiling and a decision to ferret out Jewish officers who have connections with Israel,” Pine said. “A few months after I provided my statement I was asked to take a polygraph. That is an extraordinary procedure and not part of the normal investigative process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I was told that up until then everything with the background investigation was fine and that they just wanted to be sure that nothing had happened while I was in Israel. I readily agreed, and passed the polygraph. Yet they still revoked my clearance based upon information that was in their possession prior to my taking the polygraph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Not only did they blatantly lie, I think this clearly demonstrates they had nefarious intentions,” Pine said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Update – 21 February 2021:<\/strong> Shawn M. Pine was killed in Afghanistan in 2009 while working as an intelligence contractor. See, “From Golani to Kabul’s Killing Fields”<\/a> by Jerusalem Post<\/em> correspondent E.B. Solomon.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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