Reply #94: Holder let the AIPAC guys walk free after they did exactly the same thing. DOJ concluded no crime [View All]

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was committed under the 1917 Espionage by the recipients of classified information, even though AIPAC employees, Weissman and Rosen, actively conspired with Lt. Col. Larry Franklin and Israeli intelligence officers to receive U.S. classified documents without authorization. Only the U.S. military officer, Lt. Col. Larry Franklin, who released the classified documents was fully prosecuted, sentenced and imprisoned - as, indeed, he should have been. The other indicted defendants were allowed to walk last year after DOJ concluded there is no Official Secrets Act under which they might be indicted in the U.S. - yet.

According to the Revised Indictment, AIPAC employees worked with Franklin under the direction of Naor Gilon, the Mossad Chief of Station in DC, to salt Pentagon Files with documents Gilon had "suggested" about Iran's nuclear program - Iraq WMD, again. Yet, Gilon was allowed to leave the country, and the prosecution was dropped against Weissman and Rosen. See, http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/2/14/12390/3206

Why the double-standard with Assange? Is he to be prosecuted under the Espionage Act because he isn't operating inside the confines of a traditional espionage and influence operation? Does rule of law mean nothing, anymore? Has the world been turned inside out?