Military Attack against Iran Now Imminent/Ex-Pentagon man gets 12 years in AIPAC case

Military Attack against Iran Now Imminent


http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=47495

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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.




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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.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=20366

wrote:
Military Attack against Iran Now Imminent


http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=47495

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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.




Advertisement

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.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=20366

Yeah! Support first strike! Let's get them before they get us! LOL

Dean

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Military Attack against Iran Now Imminent

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