Pentagon: Jewish Army engineer was bias target

Pentagon: Jewish Army engineer was bias target

The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Aug 5, 2008 5:48:24 EDT

DETROIT — An Army engineer from Michigan says he’s been vindicated by an internal Pentagon report that says he was wrongly accused of spying for Israel.

David Tenenbaum of Southfield, Mich., is an Orthodox Jew and fluent in Hebrew. The Defense Department put him on paid leave in 1997 while it and the FBI investigated his ties to Israel. He eventually was cleared of leaking military secrets.

The Defense Department’s Office of the Inspector General reported three weeks ago that Tenenbaum “was subjected to unusual and unwelcome scrutiny because of his faith and ethnic background.”

Tenenbaum still works at the U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command in Warren. He told the Detroit Free Press he wants an apology from the Army and his accusers punished.
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/08/ap_spyinvestigation_080408/