Posted on 04/02/2007 4:39:07 AM PDT by libstripper
Early in June 2004, an employee of the American Israel Pubic Affairs Committee, AIPAC--better known by its media tag, "the powerful Israeli lobby"--received an urgent phone call. Pentagon analyst Lawrence Franklin, a specialist on Iran, informed AIPAC lobbyist Keith Weissman that they had better meet because he had news of the most important kind to disclose. Mr. Weissman not surprisingly agreed to the rendezvous, held in Pentagon City, Va., where he was told about an imminent, Iran-directed assault on American troops and Israeli agents in Iraq. First, though, Mr. Franklin delivered a warning whose purpose would be clear only later. What he was about to tell him was highly classified, "Agency stuff," and having it could get him into trouble, he informed Mr. Weissman.
Impelled by the urgency of the message, the lobbyist nonetheless quickly shared it with his senior colleague, Steve Rosen, director of foreign policy issues for AIPAC. Hoping to raise the alarm about the imperiled Americans and Israelis, the two then contacted a Washington Post reporter (who filed no story on the matter) and an Israeli embassy officer.
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All I could think of when reading this was "sandy burglar, nyslimes". We are done in by our domestic enemies while the patriots among us live in fear of irs audits and "justice" department investigations.
This idiot deserves whatever happens to him.
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I agree. It's a very ugly situation. It does make me wonder about Alberto Gonzales, but not for the reasons the Dems are worried about him. I'm worried he's too fair and even minded. In normal times, that would be the right thing, but with a huge Clintonista infestation in the courts, DOJ and other branches of Government this was not a good attitude.
Instead we needed a Clinton-hating zealot to go out and ferret out these people from day one charge them to the highest level possible.
Now, it's probably to late for this administration to take such action.
A correction - first they came for the Communists:
First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out-- because I was not a communist; Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out-- because I was not a socialist; Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out-- because I was not a trade unionist; Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-- because I was not a Jew; Then they came for me-- and there was no one left to speak out for me. (Pastor Martin Niemoeller)
That is a very big no-no. You just don't do that. It's one of the reasons why a few of my friends love their DoD and contractor jobs: because they can never bring their work home with them and always have evenings and weekends free, unlike those in private industry who are always bringing home "just a little something" to work on.
Franklin deserves his sentence. But this is another case of rogue agents in the FBI picking on the wrong targets. The Jewish lobbyists were only doing their job. Franklin was a weasel, who cooperated with the rogues in the FBI in hopes of reducing his sentence.
This is much like Fitzgerald letting all the leakers in the Plame case off the hook so he could use them to entrap an innocent man, Scooter Libby. If anyone was guilty, it was Armitage and some of the leftist reporters, but they were all given immunity so Fitz could try to name Libby and Rove on technicalities.
The two representatives of the "Jewish Lobby" were completely innocent, and were wrongly entrapped. Unfortunately the FBI is broken, and this kind of thing seems to happen all the time. The guilty are let off and the innocent are entrapped and persecuted.
I have the greatest respect for Dorothy Rabinowitz, who has done wonderful work over the years. She is a real heavyweight.
Agreed. Dorothy Rabinowitz is the best reporter in America.
Back in the eighties, When the rest of the media was assuming anyone accused of child abuse must be guilty, Rabinowitz was the only one who saw through the bull. Her reporting got a lot people out of jail. (Cicero, my guess is you already know that, but I'm writing this for the benefit of any freeper who might not know about Rabinowitz.)
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