American officials had their own decision to make about where their loyalties were — one documented in the second cable, signed by Olson deputy Doug Greene, several weeks later. Greene reports that UAE officials requested the embassy‘s help in acquiring account data for credit cards, issued by a bank in Iowa, that investigators had linked to suspects in the assassination. The request was apparently turned down, and as Haaretz reports, the State Department denied at the time that any requests had been made. „By not accepting the request,“ Haaretz‘s Yossi Melman writes, „the Obama administration harmed the Dubai investigation efforts and assisted Israel instead.“ The U.S. government did eventually assist in the investigation, however, identifying American companies that may have been used to finance the operation.