| Author | Message | | Alpha | |  | | Alpha | | Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 8:38 pm Post subject: Ex-Pentagon man gets 12 years in AIPAC case |
| Why do we have find out about this from an Israeli newspaper as the serving Israel first US press/media isn't touching it from what I have seen thus far:
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/672973.html:
Ex-Pentagon man gets 12 years in AIPAC case
By Shmuel Rosner, Haaretz Correspondent in Washington and AP
WASHINGTON - Former Pentagon analyst Larry A. Franklin was sentenced Friday to a 12 years and seven months imprisonment for passing classified information to former American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobbyists.
Franklin was also found guilty of sharing classified information with Israeli diplomat Naor Gilon. He was also fined $10,000.
In sentencing Franklin, U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III said the facts of the case led him to believe that Franklin was motivated primarily by a desire to help the United States, not harm it.
Franklin, 59, had worked with top Pentagon officials, including former undersecretary of defense for policy Douglas Feith, and is an expert on Iraq and Iran.
Franklin pleaded guilty in October in a plea bargain, and will testify in the trial of former AIPAC lobbyists Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman slated to start in April 2005. Franklin's sentence could be then further reduced because of his cooperation with the government.
Rosen and Weissman, who are facing charges of disclosing confidential information to Israel, were fired from AIPAC in 2004.
The judge said that Franklin believed the National Security Council was insufficiently concerned with the threat posed by an unspecified Middle Eastern nation. Franklin thought leaking information might eventually persuade the Security Council to take more serious action, he said.
While the Middle Eastern country was not named in the court record, sources and the facts of the case point to Iran.
Ellis said he viewed Franklin's case differently than a case involving information leaked to the Soviets at height of the Cold War.
"But not different to the extent of excuse. Not at all," Ellis said.
Franklin at one time worked for Feith, then the Pentagon's No. 3 official, on issues involving the Middle East. During a court appearance last year, Franklin said he would occasionally be questioned directly by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and former top Pentagon official Paul Wolfowitz on policy issues.
As a result, Franklin said, he sometimes took classified information home to stay up to speed. One of the charges to which he pleaded guilty was unlawful retention of classified national defense information.
Franklin admitted that he met periodically with Rosen and Weissman between 2002 and 2004 and discussed classified information, including information about potential attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq.
Rosen and Weissman would subsequently share what they learned with reporters and Israeli officials.
Rosen was a top lobbyist for Washington-based AIPAC for more than 20 years, and Weissman was the organization's top Iran expert. AIPAC fired them in April and says it has cooperated with the investigation.
Prosecution attorneys said Friday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia they would consider releasing the court from federal sentencing guidelines once Franklin completes his cooperation in the case against Rosen and Weissman.
Franklin asked that he be allowed to serve his sentence at a minimum security prison near his home.
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Treason at high level: Pentagon Zionists, AIPAC and Israel:
http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/wake-up-america-your-government-is-hijacked-by-zionism/2004/09/08/treason-in-high-places-pentagon-zionists-aipac-and-israel.php | | | | Alpha | | | | Alpha | | | | Alpha | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 11:00 pm Post subject: Iran Threatens Full-Scale Enrichment |
| Iran Threatens Full-Scale Enrichment
AP - 1 hour, 12 minutes ago
VIENNA, Austria - Iran upped the ante Monday in its nuclear standoff, warning that it will immediately begin developing a full-scale uranium enrichment program if it is referred to the U.N. Security Council. The message, delivered by Ali Asghar Soltaniyeh, Iran's senior envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency, reflected Tehran's defiance in the face of growing international pressure over its nuclear program. Enrichment can be used in electricity production but it is also a pathway to making nuclear weapons. | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 6:20 am Post subject: Mortimer B. Zuckerman on Moscow's mad gamble to help Iran wi |
| Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:27:49 -0800
From: "Jeff Blankfort" <jblankfort@earthlink.net>
Subject: USNews.com: Mortimer B. Zuckerman on Moscow's mad gamble to help Iran with its nuclear ambitions (1/30/06)
"Military action, such as bombing the Iranian plants with cruise missiles and strike aircraft, would be justified in the circumstances. But that is hugely difficult politically, and covert action is very difficult operationally.
"Still, the risks may have to be taken because the alternative is so awful. There may now be a window of opportunity for effective preventive action, but this window is more likely to be measured in months than years." MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN
Zuckerman, who also owns the NY Post and the Atlantic Monthly, was formerly the chair of the Conference on Presidents of the Major Jewish American Organizations. In the buildup to the Iraq war he was once of the first to call for the overthrow of Saddam in a war the the lobby fully supported. Now, having paid no price or even a mention for his role in that disaster, he is once again part of a Zionist full court press to push the US into another, potentially much more devastating war, an effort that is hardly a secret. Why is there NO discussion of this among the leading spokespersons of the left? Does the spurious charge of "anti-semitism" still have their tongues still tied in knots?
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/opinion/articles/060130/30edit.htm | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 7:57 am Post subject: Letter to the Editor: Re Krauthammer Beating Drums for War |
| Letter to the Editor: Re Krauthammer Beating Drums for War:
http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060123/NEWS/60123005/1044/OPINION02&template=printart
pressdemocrat.com
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Letters to the Editor
Costly errors
EDITOR: Not even slightly apologetic for having beat the drums for the United States invasion of Iraq, perhaps the worst foreign policy disaster in our history, columnist Charles Krauthammer (Wednesday) now suggests we compound that costly error by launching a military strike against Iran, a country four times larger with a military considerably more powerful that what the United States faced in Iraq. What Krauthammer and other neocon chicken hawks seem unable to understand is that should the United States or Israel, with U.S. approval, attack Iran's nuclear facilities, there is little doubt that the new Iraqi army, composed mainly of pro-Iranian Shia, will turn their guns on the U.S. troops and what will happen then will make the current situation in Iraq seem like a garden party.
Moreover, it is likely that Iran will use its military and Navy to block the Persian Gulf and interrupt the vital flow of oil to Europe and to the West. If some of our fellow citizens don't care about the additional lives that will be lost in such an adventure, perhaps the thought of gas at $6 or $7 a gallon, if it is even available, might get their attention.
JEFF BLANKFORT
Ukiah | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 8:12 am Post subject: Neoconservatism as a Jewish Movement |
| Neoconservatism as a Jewish Movement:
For more on JINSA (Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs) Zionist Michael Ledeen and other Israel first traitors to America like him, scroll down to the 'Neoconservatism as a Jewish Movement' essay (by professor Kevin MacDonald of California State University, Long Beach) which is linked at the following URL (be sure to read the 'Thinking about Neoconservatism' article which is linked there as well):
Neoconservatism as a Jewish Movement:
http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/wake-up-america-your-government-is-hijacked-by-zionism/2005/04/06/neoconservatism-as-a-jewish-movement.php | | | | Alpha | | | | | ©2002-2009 WarWithoutEnd.co.uk |
