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2005-08-05 08:24 | User Profile
Thu, Aug. 04, 2005
Former officials with pro-Israel group indicted
By Shannon McCaffrey and Warren P. Strobel Knight Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department indicted two top former officials with a prominent pro-Israel lobbying group Thursday for allegedly conspiring to communicate classified defense information.
U.S. Attorney Paul McNulty said the men were attempting to influence U.S. foreign policy. He said trafficking in information is commonplace in the nation's capital but a "clear line separates classified information from everything else."
"Today's charges are about crossing that clear line," McNulty said.
The indictment paints a more detailed picture of the case against Pentagon analyst Lawrence Franklin, who was charged in May with leaking classified information to the pro-Israel lobbyists about possible attacks by Iran on U.S. forces in Iraq.
The indictment charges Steven Rosen, former foreign policy director for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, with conspiring to communicate classified information.
Franklin, who worked on the Iran desk in Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's office, had also been charged with three counts of communication of national defense information to persons not entitled to receive it. In Thursday's indictment, Rosen was charged with aiding and abetting Franklin in one of those counts by passing along written classified information.
Keith Weissman, a former senior Middle East analyst with AIPAC, was charged with one count of conspiracy to communicate classified national defense information.
Lawyers for Rosen and Weissman denied the allegations.
Rosen's attorney, Abbe Lowell, called the charges "entirely unjustified."
"We expect that the trial will show that this prosecution represents a misguided attempt to criminalize the public's right to participate in the political process," Lowell said in a statement.
Weissman's attorney, John Nassikas, said, "We are disappointed that the government has decided to pursue these charges, which Mr. Weissman strongly denies. We look forward to challenging them vigorously in court both factually and legally."
People sympathetic to Rosen and Weissman have argued that while Franklin allegedly violated his government security vows, the two former AIPAC employees did little more than trade in information, which is the stuff of daily business in Washington.
AIPAC fired Rosen and Weissman earlier this year.
The Israeli government has denied trying to pry secrets from the United States, with officials pointing out that, given the close ties between the two countries, it has no need to spy.
"We're fully confident in the conduct of our diplomats," said Israeli Embassy spokesman David Siegel.
One of the Israeli diplomats whom Franklin allegedly met with, Naor Gilon, recently returned home as "part of the normal diplomatic rotation," Siegel said.
Thursday's indictment adds some new facts to a case that has been shrouded in uncertainty from the beginning.
It charges that Rosen, 63, of Silver Spring, Md., and Weissman, 53, of Bethesda, Md., dealt in secret information as far back as 1999, several years before they are alleged to have met Franklin. Rosen met with "Foreign Official 1" - presumably an Israeli diplomat - on April 13, 1999, and disclosed sensitive intelligence he had picked up regarding terrorist activities in central Asia, it alleges.
Franklin and Rosen first made contact in a phone call on Aug. 15, 2002, after Rosen sought out someone at the Defense Department with expertise on Iran, the indictment alleges.
The three men met at a restaurant in Arlington, Va., in February 2003. In a phone call on the way to that initial meeting, Rosen said he was excited to meet with the "Pentagon guy," who he described as a "real insider."
They remained in contact over the next several months, meeting at various restaurants, and Weissman and Franklin attended a Baltimore Orioles game together, according to the indictment.
Franklin also faxed classified information to Rosen from a Pentagon fax machine, authorities allege.
Rosen and Weissman allegedly fed much of the sensitive information they received to journalists, on topics ranging from the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia to U.S. policy toward Iran. They continued to provide information to reporters even after being contacted by the FBI, the indictment charges.
McNulty said the investigation, which he described as "several years" old, is ongoing. He said there's no basis to charge other individuals, but wouldn't rule that out in the future.
Franklin, 58, of Kearnysville, W.Va., pleaded not guilty to the charges filed against him in May. His lawyer, Plato Cacheris, didn't immediately return a phone call seeking comment.
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2005-08-05 23:44 | User Profile
Applause.
How nice that spies are still allowed to be charged with espionage. Wait a minute, I guess the charge is not that stern, is it? Back in the old days, espionage used to be the charge for crap like this.
[QUOTE=Sertorius]Thu, Aug. 04, 2005
Former officials with pro-Israel group indicted
By Shannon McCaffrey and Warren P. Strobel Knight Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department indicted two top former officials with a prominent pro-Israel lobbying group Thursday for allegedly conspiring to communicate classified defense information.
é 2005 KR Washington Bureau and wire service sources. All Rights Reserved. [url="http://www.realcities.com/"]http://www.realcities.com[/url] [url="http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/12305279.htm"]http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/12305279.htm[/url][/QUOTE]
2005-08-06 01:57 | User Profile
[QUOTE]It charges that Rosen, 63, of Silver Spring, Md., and Weissman, 53, of Bethesda, Md., dealt in secret information as far back as 1999, several years before they are alleged to have met Franklin. Rosen met with "Foreign Official 1" - presumably an Israeli diplomat - on April 13, 1999, and disclosed sensitive intelligence he had picked up regarding terrorist activities in central Asia, it alleges.[/QUOTE]
Since Rosen and Weissman are from Maryland they presumably are US citizens. Classified information which harms US national interests or compromises security could be viewed as treason.
Reminds me of something nuclear.
2005-08-06 02:14 | User Profile
This is very nice to hear, but it's not enough. AIPAC shouldn't exist in the first place. At the very least, political donations from any group that lobbies for a foreign power should be freakin' illegal.
2005-08-06 02:43 | User Profile
I am frankly surprised that the elites would permit these two scum to be indicted. On the other hand here might have been a small corner of the WASP elite that lies outside what my a late friend called the "Zionosphere."
2005-08-06 10:02 | User Profile
AE,
I share your disgust that they weren't indicted on espionage. This certainly warrants it. While I don't approve of Rosen and Weissman's actions it is the sort of thing I come to expect out of the tribe. They can't help themselves, you know, the scorpion and the frog story.
What really fills me with disgust is Larry Franklin. This nation has rewarded him by promoting him to the rank of full colonel and yet, he goes out and does this. While I would be harsh with Rosen and Weismann I'd reserve my worst wrath for Franklin. I'd like to see him activated one last time so he could be courtmartialed.
2005-08-06 13:39 | User Profile
Speaking of the tribe, the following story only validates the "anything for a shekel" stereotype that all too many try so hard to live up to..
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[url]http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1749678,00.htmlhodox[/url]
SA man jailed for nuke exports
05/08/2005 08:47 - (SA)
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Washington - A Cape Town businessman has been sent to prison in the United States after pleading guilty to the illegal export - to Pakistan via South Africa - of American-made items that can be used in nuclear weapons, SABC news reported on Friday.
A federal judge in Washington DC sentenced Asher Karni to three years, which was well below the maximum possible.
Lawyers for[B] the Israeli national, who is an Orthodox Jew[/B], hope that when time served and good behaviour are taken into account, their client could be out in around a year.
[B]Central to the case against him was the shipment of high speed electrical switches called "triggered spark gaps", which have medical applications, but can also be used to detonate nuclear bombs[/B].
According to the US government, this is "the face of the nuclear black market".
Calling Karni a "proliferator", prosecutor Jay Bratt said it was one of the "most serious" cases he had ever dealt with.
[B]Nathan Lewin, the defence lawyer, said his client was "by no means" a nuclear arms dealer and he emphasised the outpouring of support for Asher Karni from Cape Town's Jewish community.
In his sometimes emotional address, the businessman called himself a peaceful person who loves America and Israel and would do nothing to hurt them.
In the end, Judge Riccardo Urbina was largely persuaded by the defence that Karni was a good man, led astray by greed.[/B]
But he rejected their argument that the 19 months already spent in custody were enough.
Karni's sentencing is not the end of this affair. American authorities are still seeking the extradition of the Pakistani man accused of buying the triggered spark gaps.
2005-08-06 14:18 | User Profile
[QUOTE=CornCod]I am frankly surprised that the elites would permit these two scum to be indicted. On the other hand here might have been a small corner of the WASP elite that lies outside what my a late friend called the "Zionosphere."[/QUOTE] This little area of Anglo-Germanics is not controlled by jews or their shabbos goy.
I still can't get over Joey "the jew" Lieberman refering to Al Gore as his shabbos goy...btw...Gore has been sucking more rich jew a$$ lately trying to put a broadcasting-publishing venture together...Al Gore just doesn't get it...
2005-08-06 14:21 | User Profile
BK,
I seem to remember a similar incident involving a Jew. It may be posted here somewhere.
In his sometimes emotional address, the businessman called himself a peaceful person who loves America and Israel and would do nothing to hurt them.
Then, why sell this item?
In the end, Judge Riccardo Urbina was largely persuaded by the defence that Karni was a good man, led astray by greed.
No, if he really did love "America and Israel" as he claims he never would have done this. The excuse of greed doesn't cut it. Once again, another example of the "Scorpion and the Frog" in action.
2005-08-06 17:49 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Pennsylvania_Dutch] I still can't get over Joey "the jew" Lieberman refering to Al Gore as his shabbos goy...btw...Gore has been sucking more rich jew a$$ lately trying to put a broadcasting-publishing venture together...Al Gore just doesn't get it...[/QUOTE] Maybe Gore is a Jew.
2005-08-06 18:00 | User Profile
I like the new definition of "bad" = Jew :osama:
2005-08-06 19:24 | User Profile
[QUOTE=travis]Maybe Gore is a Jew.[/QUOTE] In Gore's case it's all those years of jew brainwashing and jew money.
Howard Dean's a real kike...his old lady is a practicing jewess and his kids are being raised as kikes...I'll bet Howie baby is into ritual cabalistic slaughter too.:caiphas:
2005-08-06 19:30 | User Profile
This is the jew spy information you all have been looking for: [url]http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/motherofallscandals.html[/url]
Not over-stated. :oh:
2005-08-07 02:09 | User Profile
The nexus of the espionage is in the cabal of Jewish neocon intellectuals and chickenhawks that the supposed WASP Richard B. Cheney brought into this corrupt administration. Most of them have connections to the American Enterprise Institute, which was where Cheney came under their influence. Since Cheney is from my hometown, and graduated from NCHS just five years before me, I have always wondered how a good Wyomin' kid like him could sell us out, his own white Christian people. Answer- he did it for the money - and power, which he glories in. God have mercy on his soul. [I]Delendum est id, ad radix.[/I] That's what Margaret Schidler, our ole Latin teacher would intone on him were she living today. He and Lynn have also dishonored the memory of Francis Ferris, our beloved teacher of English and debate, such a profound influence on so many Wyomin' kids - including Lynn Vincent, Richard Cheney,..... and me.
2005-08-07 07:50 | User Profile
SG,
Before it is over we'll discover that Bolton is involved in this up to his eyeballs. Those that think the Plame affair is simply about Rove are missing the point of what is really going on here. Both of these scandals are tied together through Cheney's office. I think you are right about slick Dick. When he was a congressman he had a perfect record on immigration issues. Hard to believe folks can be that damn greedy.
2005-08-08 21:13 | User Profile
The Washington Times [url]www.washingtontimes.com[/url]
Israel lobbyist bragged about Pentagon source By Jerry Seper THE WASHINGTON TIMES Published August 8, 2005 A former official of a pro-Israel lobbying group indicted last week boasted that his Pentagon source was a "real insider" and promised to "do what I can" to help the source get a job with the National Security Council, court records show.
Steven J. Rosen, former director of foreign policy issues for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, faces charges of conspiracy to give national defense information to persons not entitled to receive it. Also indicted was Keith Weissman, former senior Iran analyst at AIPAC.
Mr. Rosen, 63, of Silver Spring, and Mr. Weissman, 53, of Bethesda, are scheduled for arraignment Aug. 16 before U.S. District Court Judge T.S. Ellis III in Alexandria. They are accused of passing information from classified documents, although not the documents themselves. AIPAC fired the two men in April.
The 26-page indictment outlines an extensive FBI undercover investigation dating to 1999, when conversations between Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weissman with officials from foreign countries and others were monitored.
It said the AIPAC officials illegally disclosed information from classified reports, including data on terrorist activities in Central Asia, the Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, U.S. strategy options in the Middle East and al Qaeda terrorists.
It said they also passed the information to reporters, who were encouraged to write stories.
In one exchange, according to the indictment, Mr. Rosen told a reporter about a classified draft internal policy document, saying, "I'm not supposed to know this," but suggesting that it was a "considerable story." In another instance, the indictment said, Mr. Rosen told a reporter that his information came from the "agency" and had been provided to him by "an American intelligence source."
That intelligence source, the indictment said, was Lawrence A. Franklin, a veteran Pentagon analyst arrested in May by the FBI on charges of illegally disclosing classified information.
The indictment said Mr. Rosen first talked with Mr. Franklin in August 2002 after he called the Pentagon and asked for the name of someone with expertise on Iran. He was given Mr. Franklin's name and left a message, which later was returned.
According to the indictment, Mr. Franklin disclosed at a February 2003 meeting national defense information on a draft report concerning "a Middle Eastern country." Two days later, the indictment said, Mr. Rosen and Mr. Franklin discussed the Pentagon analyst's prospects for a job with the National Security Council, with the AIPAC official saying that if he got the job, Mr. Franklin would be "by the elbow of the president."
The indictment said Mr. Franklin asked Mr. Rosen to "put in a good word" for him, to which Mr. Rosen replied, "I'll do what I can." The indictment does not say what Mr. Rosen did, if anything, to help Mr. Franklin.
It said Mr. Rosen referred to Mr. Franklin as a "real insider" and that Mr. Weissman described him as a "friend of ours."
Copyright é 2005 News World Communications, Inc. [url]http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20050807-102851-8805r.htm[/url] =========== P.D.F. Link: [url]http://www.antiwar.com/rep2/FranklinSupersedingIndictment.pdf[/url] Makes interesting reading.
2005-08-08 22:07 | User Profile
If we were to dig out all the Jews spys and werongdoers at The Pentagon and at the White House I don't think that we could have any kind of government because those people are running the US.
Find out how many Jews are working in the US government and then add another 15% for Americans that have sold themselves for money or that are being blackmailed by Jews and then maybe you will have a clear picture of what is going on.
If we keep on allowing the Jews to keep control of the phone services in the US we are then giving them a blank check to our secrets.