Smear Factor

If you didn't see it last week, here's a McClatchy piece on the winks, nods, and slurs that are part of the campaign against Obama. I found this part interesting:

One practitioner in Virginia, who hates Obama like a dog hates cats, led a reporter through his efforts. Because the man is a retired clandestine CIA officer, identifying him could endanger officers or operations that remain classified, so McClatchy will not reveal his name. In late 2006, convinced that an Obama presidency would be disastrous for America, he decided to start an anti-Obama operation. He combed the public record on Obama. He used a couple of allies and informants — half-jokingly dubbing his group "The Crusaders" — to learn about Obama's background, especially his Africa connection and how he came to be the editor of the Harvard Law Review. He assembled a dossier on Obama, including allegations that Obama attended a madrassa, or Islamic religious school, in his youth in Indonesia. Then the retired spook tried to get Israeli intelligence officials interested in his Obama dossier. They weren't, to his chagrin. He also shopped it to some foreign reporters. Again, no luck.

Assuming that's not just tall talk from a former spook who misses the game, what part of the CIA officer's professional experience led him to believe Israeli intelligence would be interested in an anti-Obama dossier? And what did he think Israel would do with the information?