Analyst, lobbyists charged in Pentagon probe (Reuters)

[Up2Late]

Analyst, lobbyists charged in Pentagon probe

Thu Aug 4, 2005 02:16 PM ET

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) - A Defense Department analyst was charged on Thursday with illegally disclosing classified defense information to two former officials of a pro-Israel lobbying group, court documents showed.

A superseding indictment returned by a federal grand jury and unsealed on Thursday charges Lawrence Franklin, a Pentagon analyst, with giving the information to two former employees of the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

The new indictment charges Steven Rosen, formerly AIPAC's policy director, with illegally receiving classified information from Franklin and with illegally helping Franklin pass on written classified information.

The indictment also charges Keith Weissman, AIPAC's former senior Middle East analyst, with illegally receiving classified information.

© Reuters 2005. All Rights Reserved.

<http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=9277803&src=rss/politicsNews>

[Greeby]

1. I'm guessing

This analyst is Feith's fall guy

[mrdmk]

2. Here is another story on the same subject

<snip>
Paul McNulty, the U.S. attorney in Alexandria, said the men apparently were motivated by a desire to advance their personal agendas and careers by trading on prized information. "The facts alleged today tell a story of individuals who put their own interests and their own views of foreign policy ahead of American national security," McNulty said at a news conference.

Although the indictment refers to other U.S. officials who gave Rosen classified materials, McNulty said no other charges are planned, but noted the investigation continues.
<end of snip>

link
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/sns-ap-pentagon-spy-probe,0,6934716.story?coll=ny-leadnationalnews-headlines


Could be interesting that charges are being handed down and the investigations still continue. That means they are hoping that someone opens their big mouth on the witness stand.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Gee, reminds me of Richard Perle's deals with Israel. I've always

believed that Perle should have been charged.

[seemslikeadream]

4. FRANKLIN AND FEITH

Analyst Charged With Passing Iran Info: Franklin Turned Self InTo FBI
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1444053

Fieth resigns from Pentagon today
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1186412

Former CIA official looks to leak the truth
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=886884

New Israeli spy probe has a 30-year history, insiders say
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=852863

Israel's Mole Inside the Pentagon
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=783161

FBI probes Jewish sway on Bush government
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=802725

Money from Iran Fuels Iraq Insurgency -Rumsfeld
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=810129


FBI probes Jewish sway on Bush government
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=802725&mesg_id=802725

Israeli spy nest in the U.S. - Ashcroft says: ’Don’t arrest them!’
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=802249

Ashcroft Nixes Arrests in Israeli Spy Probe
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=796806

Secrets: Classified Info: Springing a Leak
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x803017

FBI probes Jewish sway on Bush government
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=802725

Spy Case Renews Debate Over Pro-Israel Lobby's Ties to Pentagon Cons
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=804314

Israel's Mole Inside the Pentagon
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=783161

Pro-Israel Lobby Has Strong VoiceAIPAC Is Embroiled in Investigation
of Pe
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=803035

Defense, Cheney Iran Specialists Questioned in (Israeli Spy) Probe
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=801031

Leak Inquiry Includes Iran Experts in Administration (WaPo)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=801678

White House Learned of Spy Probe in 2001
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=800454

LAT: Israel Has Long Spied on US,Say Officials(but CIA, Mossad "intimate")
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=798631


Wider FBI Probe Of Pentagon Leaks Includes Chalabi - WaPo
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=798333

Serving Two Flags The Bush Neo-Cons and Israel
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=799167

Israeli political advisor may have received U.S. secrets
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=795817

Pentagon leaks connected to battle over Iran policy (this is big!)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=797846

Pentagon Office in Spying Case Was Focus of Iran Debate
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=796889

Alleged Pentagon Leak to Iraqi Is Under Investigation
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=798060

Spy probe scans neo-cons' Israel ties (long article from Asia Times)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=794029

AIPAC hires lawyers
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=794332

IAEA: No proof of secret Iran plan
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=793930

WP: Spy Probe Expands/Linked to NSC Probe
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=795385

Pentagon Office in Spying Case Was Focus of Iran Debate
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=795432

U.S. Spy Probe Focuses on Two Lobbyists -Guardian
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=794973

[Up2Late]

6. Wow, do you have that link list stored on you computer or...

...what?

I was going to say, this probe has quite a history, but you post shows that well.

[seemslikeadream]

7. Yes I've been keeping track for awhile now, first listed here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=125&topic_id=18796

[Just Me]

8. You are so awesome, SLAD!!!

The BEST!!! :hi:

[seemslikeadream]

9. YOU ARE JUST ME, YOU ARE!

http://eclectech.co.uk.nyud.net:8090/b3ta/sheepstalk.gif

[Pithy Cherub]

5. We need a bush administration indictment tote board

to start adding up who is accused and how many previously charged felons are part of this continuing * cabal. Once all of the indictments are in, it will be interesting to see if it supasses Nixon an if so by how many...

[mrdmk]

26. Actually the Reagan Administration holds the record

Something along the line of 138 people charged with a crime or left office because of impieties.

http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/22/4757/printer

[meow2u3]

10. Pro-Israel lobbyists charged in US Pentagon case

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) - A federal grand jury indicted two former officials of the pro- Israel lobbying group AIPAC Thursday on charges they received classified national defense information from a Pentagon analyst, court documents show.

The indictment charges Steven Rosen, the former foreign policy director for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, with receiving classified information from analyst Lawrence Franklin and helping Franklin pass on written classified information.

AIPAC's former senior Middle East analyst, Keith Weissman, also was charged with receiving classified information

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050804/pl_nm/security_pentagon_dc

[dogday]

11. When you do something like this

in a time of war, does it constitute treason?

[Coastie for Truth]

14. Only if it is for Iraq or the Taliban or AlQaeda

Only if it is for Iraq or the Taliban or AlQaeda

Section 2381. Treason

Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war
against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and
comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason
and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five
years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and
shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

"Coastie"
Certieid Trial and Defense Counsel, Article 27(b), UCMJ


Yes: I am a graduate of the Navy- Marine Corps -Coast Guard "Military Justice School" at Newport RI (class 2-67)

[VegasWolf]

12. Good. I hope they receive stiff penalties! nt

[Hardrada]

13. Get Doug Feith too and Perle

And Wolfie and all the other Likudnik infiltrators>

[Coastie for Truth]

15. And Robert Novak and Karl Rove

who outed a CIA agent -- and exposed her contacts to death--

1. He admitted it by his actions and utterances -- http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4261529

2. He admitted it by his actions and utterances -- http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4261452

3. He admitted it by his actions and utterances -- http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4261448

4. He admitted it by his actions and utterances -- http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1985449

5. He admitted it by his actions and utterances -- http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1985449

6. He admitted it by his actions and utterances -- http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1985449

7. He admitted it by his actions and utterances -- http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4261392

8. He admitted it by his actions and utterances -- http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4261389

Kind of like Robert Hanssen-->


Robert Philip Hanssen (born April 18, 1944) was an FBI agent who was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union, later Russia. He was arrested on February 20, 2001 at a park near his home in Vienna, Virginia, and charged with selling American secrets to Moscow for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds over a 15-year period.

In 1986 he sold to the Soviets the names of three KGB agents in the United States secretly working for the FBI. (Boris Yuzhin, Valery Martynov, Sergei Motorin). These three may have already been betrayed by traitor CIA agent Aldrich Ames; they were soon recalled to Russia to their fate. Because the FBI could attribute the leak to Ames, the trail to Hanssen was diverted. He also revealed an expensive secret tunnel dug under the Soviet embassy for the purpose of eavesdropping. He compromised the investigation of Felix Bloch, State Department official accused of working with the Soviets; he gave them the plan of a program for the continuity of government in case of a Soviet nuclear attack, and planned defense and retaliation.

Was this Opus Dei member an Opus Dei spy?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hanssen

[formercia]

16. I was detailed to work with Hanssen.

he was an assh0le and deseved worse than his punishment. His actions ruined the careers of many a good officer when the CIA and FBI went on their little witch hunt.

[xchrom]

17. now there's a surprise -- israel spying on her closest ally.

again and again....

with allies like these?

[AlCzervik]

18. Some more info on Franklin here

http://www.answers.com/topic/lawrence-franklin

and some more on Rosen
http://www.namebase.org/main4/Steven-J-_28aipac_29-Rosen.html

[Name removed]

19. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[Caleb]

21. Why would Lieberman "rescue" them?

?

[warrens]

20. Yee, haw

Neo-con traitors, prisonbound. Where's the creep Feith? He was involved in this too.

[Gloria]

22. Two More Charged in Pentagon Leak--WaPo (AIPAC)

See thread in GD with the post from Daily Kos....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/04/AR2005080401129.html


Two More Charged in Pentagon Leak

By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 4, 2005; 4:33 PM

Two former employees of an influential pro-Israel lobbying group were charged today with illegally receiving classified information from a Defense Department analyst, according to court documents unsealed in Alexandria.

In a superseding indictment, a federal grand jury also restructured the charges against the analyst, Lawrence A. Franklin, who is alleged to have disclosed classified defense information to the two employees of the group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, known as AIPAC.


The new indictment, handed up today and announced by U.S. Attorney Paul McNulty, charges AIPAC's former policy director, Steven Rosen, with illegally receiving classified information from Franklin and with illegally helping Franklin pass on that information.

Another former AIPAC employee, Keith Weissman, is charged with illegally receiving classified information. Weissman formerly worked for AIPAC as a senior Middle East analyst specializing on Iran.

Today's indictment outlines a much broader case against Rosen and Weissman than has previously been indicated, alleging that the two disclosed sensitive information as far back as 1999 and that the topics ranged from Saudi Arabia to al Qaeda to Iran. Recipients of the information included foreign governments and reporters, the 26-page indictment says.

MORE


Daily Kos post on this...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4263364

[Kagemusha]

23. So it's as broad as I thought but, doesn't rise to espionage act stuff

Well that's fine. If this is what they can prove and what the evidence supports, then so be it.

Basically saying they didn't steal anything, they just accepted fenced goods and passed them on without it rising to the level of hostility, i.e. treason, sedition, espionage, etc.

Which is not good for them or US-Israeli relations, just the same.

[enough]

24. kick

Can't believe these indictments actually happened.

[IndianaGreen]

25. Put all of them in the same cell with Jonathan Pollard

Thou shalt not reveal secrets to a foreign power.