I think you need to look up Jonathan Pollard to decide whether Israel could be perceived as a nation that may try to gain US intelligence. Because Israel owes existence to the US means nothing. Look at Afghanistan and the help the US provided against Russia. This does not affect whether Israel will help us with Middle Eastern terrorists because it is in Israels own interests to fight terrorism for existence as a nation. I would think people would be rallying around this decision because of the fear that Checkpoint was going to close the source code for Snort. Maybe Bush is a HUGE Snort fan and was mad that there were rumors of Checkpoint closing the source code. Bush could be a huge underground coder for all we know.

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