Posted on 08/04/2005 6:02:39 PM PDT by Maceman
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For further information contact Alexandria, Virginia Sam Dibbley 703-842-4050 August 4, 2005
Paul McNulty, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, announced that Lawrence Anthony Franklin, age 58, of Kearneysville, WV; Steven J. Rosen, age 63, of Silver Spring, MD; and Keith Weissman, age 53, of Bethesda, MD, were indicted today by a federal grand jury sitting in Alexandria with Conspiracy to Communicate National Defense Information to Persons Not Entitled to Receive It.
The indictment alleges that beginning in April of 1999, Rosen, the Director of Foreign Policy Issues for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in Washington, D.C., and Weissman, the Senior Middle East Analyst in the Foreign Policy Issues Department at AIPAC, in an effort to influence persons within and outside the United States government, would use their contacts within the United States government, including Franklin, with whom they first met in February 2003, to gather sensitive United States government information, including classified information relating to the national defense, for subsequent unlawful communication, delivery and transmission to persons not entitled to receive it, including members of the media and foreign government officials.
Franklin was also charged with three counts of Communication of National Defense Information to Persons Not Entitled to Receive It. In one of those counts, Rosen was charged with aiding and abetting him in the unlawful disclosure.
Finally, Franklin was charged with conspiring with persons known and unknown to the grand jury to communicate classified information to an agent or representative of a foreign government. It is alleged that Franklin would use his position as a desk officer in the Office of the Secretary of Defense to gather information, classified as affecting the security of the United States, for subsequent unlawful communication to a foreign official.
Mr. McNulty stated: When it comes to classified information, there is a clear line in the law. Today's charges are about crossing that line. Those entrusted with safeguarding our nation's secrets must remain faithful to that trust. Those not authorized to receive classified information must resist the temptation to acquire it, no matter what their motivation may be. >{?This case was investigated by the FBI, and is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Kevin DiGregory and Neil Hammerstrom, and Thomas Reilly, Trial Attorney, the Counterespionage Section of the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice.
ya, makes me want to either puke or hope desperately that there is some strategeryizing goin' on........only explanation....
maybe we'll get a double bang with the Plame/Wilson indictments and the Sandy affair finally blowing wide open.
If this happened during the Clinton administration then it doesn't count. All scandals during that time frame receive the special, "media noseeum" dispensation granted solely in conjunction with and at the discretion of the NY Times, Dan Rather, and the Arkansas Mafia trifecta.
Earl Hilliard and Cynthia McKinney were talking a lot of seditious trash about George Bush knowing about 9/11 in advance, etc. AIPAC was doing the Lord's work here, in getting rid of Hilliard. He's long gone. Unfortunately, Cynthia McKinney was elected again.
Look at the pic the Boston Glob is running for tomorrow's paper
'In this photograph taken in June 2003, Karl Rove, senior advisor to President Bush and Robert Novak are pictured together at a party marking the 40th anniversary of Novak's newspaper column at the Army Navy Club in Washington DC. Novak was suspended indefinitely by CNN after he swore and walked off the set during a debate with Democratic operative James Carville. The exchange came on CNNs "Inside Edition" during a discussion of Florida's Senate campaign. (AP Photo/Lauren Shay)'
I am SURE they could have found a more recent picture of Novak than 2003.....after all, it's the AP!.....heh-heh...
Sure, after their near-victory this week in Ohio, they're dreaming of all those near-victories they'll have during the next few years.
LOL
The funny thing is, I don't think the R's are doing so much RIGHT as W, especially, trips up the D's at every turn, mostly because they're so eager to "get" him.
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Mr. McNulty stated: When it comes to classified information, there is a clear line in the law. Today's charges are about crossing that line. Those entrusted with safeguarding our nation's secrets must remain faithful to that trust.Those not authorized to receive classified information must resist the temptation to acquire it, no matter what their motivation may be.
Public Hanging.
Good!
"dummies are having orgasms over this"
Their demented minds think the same law will be applied to Karl Rove and Robert Novak.
I really don't care if Franklin was a democrat or Republican. What this does show is that we have people at the Pentagon who are willing to compromise national security; it also shows that we have an administration who is willing to prosecute those same people.
GMTA
LMAO!!!!!!!!!
Did anything ever come of this?
Also, anything to report from the Front lines in the WH?
Thanks ! I miss your postings!
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