Friday, August 13, 2004
 ASSOCIATED PRESS August 13, 2004:TRENTON, N.J. — Gov. James E. McGreevey stunned New Jersey and the nation by resigning his office suddenly yesterday, saying he had had an extramarital affair with another man.
[He] added that staying in office and keeping the affair and his sexual orientation secret will leave the governor's office "vulnerable to rumors, false allegations and threats of disclosure."
Two sources close to Mr. McGreevey, both speaking on condition of anonymity, said the man involved in the affair was Golan Cipel, an Israeli poet who worked briefly for the governor as a homeland-security adviser despite having no security experience.
As a foreign citizen, the 33-year-old former sailor could not get a security clearance and federal authorities would not share classified information with him.
One source, a senior McGreevey political adviser, said Mr. Cipel threatened Mr. McGreevey several weeks ago that unless he was paid "millions of dollars," Mr. Cipel would file a lawsuit against the governor charging him with sexual harassment.
That source said an attorney for Mr. Cipel "indicated that should the money be paid, Cipel would disappear until after the 2005 election."
The second source, a high-ranking member of the McGreevey administration, said Mr. Cipel made several threats about a lawsuit and demanded "an exorbitant sum of money to make it go away."  Former ABC reporter Jpn Rappaport expands at his www.nomorefakenews.com AUGUST 12, 2004:What makes this story a little different is Golan Cipel. The gov hired him to oversee homeland security and anti-terrorism in the state of New Jersey. One drawback: Cipel, who was raking in $110,000 for the gig, couldn't get a security clearance. The gov apparently also protected Cipel from the usual background check all state employees have to undergo.
Cipel is not an American citizen. He is an Israeli national. A former soldier. A former public information officer at the Israeli consulate in NY.
The feds refused to share info about terrorism with him in his post under the gov because he wasn't a citizen of the US.
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This sounds like a classic sex intell op on a politician.
Is Cipel somehow connected to the Mossad?
When the gov says his unadmitted gay affair left him (and New Jersey) open and vulnerable to outside influences, is he just talking about the standard kind of blackmail/extortion? Or is he implying that New Jersey could be squeezed into meeting demands from Israeli operatives acting on behalf of the Mossad?
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