O.D.M Looks at an old Spying Case
This story I found today on Yediot Ahronot, funny how there is no single mention of it in the United States. Just replace the name Israel, with Syria/Iran/ Iraq or any other country in the world.
Guilty plea entered in Pentagon spy case
Top Defense Department analyst Lawrence A. Franklin pleads guilty to giving classified information to an Israeli embassy official and members of a pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC Associated Press
A top Defense Department analyst with expertise in the Middle East pleaded guilty Wednesday to giving classified information to an Israeli embassy official and members of a pro-Israel lobbying group.
Lawrence A. Franklin, 58, said during a plea hearing that he was frustrated with government policy and that he had hoped the two members of American Israel Public Affairs Committee(AIPAC) could influence policy with their connections at the National Security Council.
He also admitted giving classified information to a political official at the Israeli embassy, but said the information he received from the official was far more valuable than what he gave.
“I knew in my heart that his government had this information,” Franklin said. “He gave me far more information than I gave him.”
Franklin pleaded guilty to two conspiracy counts and a charge of unlawful retention of national defense information. U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III set sentencing for Jan. 20.
Franklin spoke directly to an Israeli official
Franklin, who was one of the Pentagon’s policy experts on Iran and the Middle East, was indicted in June on five charges.
The two AIPAC officials who allegedly received the information, Steven Rosen of Silver Spring, Md., And Keith Weissman of Bethesda, Md., Also have been charged with conspiring to obtain and disclose classified U.S. Defense information.
AIPAC fired Rosen and Weissman in April. Both AIPAC and Israel deny any wrongdoing.
According to the indictment, Franklin 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.
On at least one occasion, Franklin spoke directly to an Israeli official. Rosen, a top lobbyist for Washington-based AIPAC for more than 20 years, and Weissman, the organization’s top Iran expert, allegedly disclosed sensitive information as far back as 1999 on a variety of topics, including al-Qaida, terrorist activities in Central Asia, the bombing of Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia and U.S. Policy in Iran, according to the indictment.
Franklin at one time worked for the Pentagon’s No. 3 official, policy undersecretary Douglas Feith, on issues involving Iran and the Middle East.
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This is the same country that tapped Bill Clinton's Telephone Conversations, Installed phone bugs across affluential residents of Washington D.C., sent endless spies to the U.S. and the world, many of whom were caught.
Still the U.S. supports them tirelessly...
I wonder why? blackmail situation? Just want to get rid of them? or pure lobbying (Legal Corruption)?
Guilty plea entered in Pentagon spy case
Top Defense Department analyst Lawrence A. Franklin pleads guilty to giving classified information to an Israeli embassy official and members of a pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC Associated Press
A top Defense Department analyst with expertise in the Middle East pleaded guilty Wednesday to giving classified information to an Israeli embassy official and members of a pro-Israel lobbying group.
Lawrence A. Franklin, 58, said during a plea hearing that he was frustrated with government policy and that he had hoped the two members of American Israel Public Affairs Committee(AIPAC) could influence policy with their connections at the National Security Council.
He also admitted giving classified information to a political official at the Israeli embassy, but said the information he received from the official was far more valuable than what he gave.
“I knew in my heart that his government had this information,” Franklin said. “He gave me far more information than I gave him.”
Franklin pleaded guilty to two conspiracy counts and a charge of unlawful retention of national defense information. U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III set sentencing for Jan. 20.
Franklin spoke directly to an Israeli official
Franklin, who was one of the Pentagon’s policy experts on Iran and the Middle East, was indicted in June on five charges.
The two AIPAC officials who allegedly received the information, Steven Rosen of Silver Spring, Md., And Keith Weissman of Bethesda, Md., Also have been charged with conspiring to obtain and disclose classified U.S. Defense information.
AIPAC fired Rosen and Weissman in April. Both AIPAC and Israel deny any wrongdoing.
According to the indictment, Franklin 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.
On at least one occasion, Franklin spoke directly to an Israeli official. Rosen, a top lobbyist for Washington-based AIPAC for more than 20 years, and Weissman, the organization’s top Iran expert, allegedly disclosed sensitive information as far back as 1999 on a variety of topics, including al-Qaida, terrorist activities in Central Asia, the bombing of Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia and U.S. Policy in Iran, according to the indictment.
Franklin at one time worked for the Pentagon’s No. 3 official, policy undersecretary Douglas Feith, on issues involving Iran and the Middle East.
_______________________________________________
This is the same country that tapped Bill Clinton's Telephone Conversations, Installed phone bugs across affluential residents of Washington D.C., sent endless spies to the U.S. and the world, many of whom were caught.
A list by some website, compiling all articles written by credible and respected reporters. Most are copied and pasted into other websites because the original one was blocked (for some weired reason!!)
Still the U.S. supports them tirelessly...
I wonder why? blackmail situation? Just want to get rid of them? or pure lobbying (Legal Corruption)?
posted by The One and Only O.D.M @ 1:26 PM
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O.D.M,
I must say you have a unique choice of art in your blog, I like this one, even though it is very political. I also love that painiting, it is scary, but the colors are soothing, it is the last painting in your post titled "O.D.M Demands Change, but Doubts American Intentions ", can you tell me where you got it from?
What do you suggest? Tension between Israel and America?
It will never happen, unless Bush finds out that Laura is sleeping with Sharon..Ooooooooooooooooh that would be so nice
Problem is, they are all ugly! It will never happen.
I like that Muhajjaba website, who is she?
More and more people need to know about this. I live in the U.S. and I haven't heard anything about it.
mehlis report out in 10 days.
what do you have to say?
Your interior minister, former chief of intellingence in Lebanon during 20 years just took his life away.
All my condoleances.
I'm afraid this is related to the Mehlis report. ODM you gotta face the truth, youre coutry is gouverned by criminals.
Radio Lebanon has just aired an interview with Syrian interior minister Ghazi Kenaan taped Tuesday, October 11. His suicide was announced by the Syrian news agency Wednesday.
October 12, 2005, 1:17 PM (GMT+02:00)
The late Gen. Kenaan stressed Damascus had always looked after Lebanese interests and concluded: “This is my last declaration.”
As longtime chief of Syrian military intelligence in Lebanon, he has come under suspicion as co-plotter in the murder of Lebanese leader Rafiq Hariri in the report due for release any day by the UN inquiry commission. As prop of the Assad regime from the days of Bashar’s father, Hafez, Kenaan’s death is a major upset for Damascus. Its occurrence hours before Assad was to go on the air for a landmark CNN interview suggests the president may have been preparing to sacrifice close aides to mute Washington’s pressure on his own policies.
DeeDee: Thank you for your compliment.. I also know how to paint humans, in sticks, like 4 years olds.
Anon at 12:53: I like your process of thinking. I think you are going somewhere.
Anon at 11:18 : I dunno who she is. It is a very interesting website
Anon at 1:01 AM : I think the regime would survive. There is no replacement as of now. and I also think there is a deal in the making.
Anon at 7:29 A.M: I never denied that Syria is ran by assholes.
To the rest of the world. To hell with Ghazi Kanaan!
That painting speaks alot..
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