Posted on 01/18/2008 9:46:34 PM PST by forkinsocket
MAY 21, 2004 : (LAWRENCE FRANKLIN GIVES CBS JOURNALISTS DIRT ON THE INC's CHALABI --- See AIPAC, CHALABI "AN IRANIAN SPY" MEME) During a series of meetings in 2003, Franklin spilled several pieces of allegedly classified information, from policy options against Iran to specific intelligence about attacks on US forces in Iraq. On a couple of occasions, Rosen or Weissman allegedly passed along what he’d learned to Israeli diplomats or journalists.
Franklin, likewise, relayed sensitive information to an Israeli diplomat and to the media. On May 21, 2004, he disclosed what prosecutors described as “top secret/SCI” information to journalists from CBS about what prosecutors would later cryptically claim concerned “meetings involving two Middle East officials.”
That evening, CBS correspondent Lesley Stahl reported on evidence that onetime Pentagon favorite Ahmad Chalabi “personally gave Iranian intelligence officers information so sensitive that if revealed it could, quote, ‘get Americans killed.’ ” Later in the broadcast, she reported that the information Chalabi had allegedly passed was so sensitive that US officials “at the highest levels” had prevailed on CBS not to broadcast it.
Five weeks later, the FBI closed in on Franklin. Armed with a warrant, agents searched his workspace and turned up a June 25, 2003, classified document. Franklin admitted he had given information derived from the document to Rosen and Weissman. Agents then searched his house in Kearneysville, West Virginia, and found more than 80 classified documents he had brought home illegally over three decades. ------“This Is the FBI—Can We Talk?”, Washingtonian ^ | 01. Jan 2008 | Mark Matthews
The "Chalabi's an Iranian spy" meme popped up in the press just in time to bury this story :
MAY 2004 : (REPORT : ONE OF 50 UN OIL FOR FOOD AUDIT REPORTS HAS BEEN LEAKED TO JOURNALIST TIMOTHY WOOD AND POSTED ON MINEWEB.COM WEBSITE - THIS AUDIT REPORT CONCERNS SWISS-BASED COTECNA INSPECTION SERVICES) In the scandal over the U.N. Oil-for-Food program in Iraq, Kofi Annan's main line of defense has been that he didn't know. Perhaps he should take a closer look at internal U.N. Oil-for-Food audit reports, more than 50 in all, produced by his own Office of Internal Oversight Services--the same reports he's declined to share with the Security Council, or release to Congress. One of these reports has now leaked. It concerns the U.N. Secretariat's mishandling of the hiring of inspectors to authenticate the contents of relief shipments into sanctions-bound Iraq. (Obtained by a journalist specializing in the mining industry, Timothy Wood, a copy of this report can be found at www.mineweb.com.
Reflecting the findings of a U.N. internal audit conducted during the sixth year of the seven-year Oil-for-Food program, the report focuses on one contractor hired directly by the U.N. Secretariat: Swiss-based Cotecna Inspection SA. This is the same company that, while bidding against several rivals for its initial Oil-for-Food contract in 1998, had Mr. Annan's son, Kojo, on its payroll as a consultant. Both Mr. Annan and Cotecna's CEO, Robert Massey, have insisted that the contract was strictly in accordance with U.N. rules.
Although this report doesn't mention Kojo, it does go on for 20 pages about inadequacies and violations in the U.N.'s handling of the Cotecna contract. The report explains that "the Contract had been amended prior to its commencement, which was inappropriate" and recounts that within four days of Cotecna signing its initial lowball contract for $4.87 million, both Oil-for-Food and the U.N. Procurement Division had authorized "additional costs" totaling $35
Interestingly, the Chalabi story was followed by the "panty torture" meme a day or so later.
May 2004 was the month Duelfer's team did in fact start discovering some chemical weapons munitions in Iraq. You'd never know it though given all the other bleedingheart stories floating about then and since.
Interesting, piasa.
Thank you.
OPINION:
I disagree.
Speaking with the FBI is completely acceptable.
If one does feel comfortable; get an attorney and
talk with him (them) at that time.
This ties into not one but several stories we’ve been following for years here on FR- hence the keywords. It will help the various researchers find what interests them at a given moment.
MAY 21, 2004 Friday : (CIA LEAK/PLAMEGATE INVESTIGATION : NBC'S TIM RUSSERT & TIME'S MATTHEW COOPER ARE SUBPOENAED) Journalists at Time magazine and NBC News were subpoenaed yesterday [May 21, 2004] to appear before a federal grand jury investigating whether administration officials illegally leaked the name of an undercover CIA officer last summer. Tim Russert, host of NBC's "Meet the Press," and Time reporter Matthew Cooper were subpoenaed by special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald. NBC said in a statement that it would fight the subpoena, as did a lawyer for Time. "Time Inc.'s policy is to protect confidential sources," said Robin Bierstedt, deputy general counsel for the magazine. Bierstedt said the prosecutors asked Time a week ago to cooperate but the magazine declined to do so. She said Fitzgerald wants to question Cooper about a story that appeared in Time on July 21, 2003, and another that ran on Time's Web site on July 17. SNIP Under federal law, it is a crime to reveal a covert officer's identity if it is done with the intention of exposing the officer's undercover status. More... -- "Reporters Subpoenaed in CIA Leak," By Susan Schmidt, Washington Post Staff Writer, Saturday, May 22, 2004; Page A11, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46823-2004May21.html 56 posted on 05/22/2004 1:39:55 PM PDT by kcvl
Keywords are the researcher/analyst’s friend.
Likes a spider’s web...
Ah, I see. Thanks.
Heck of an article.
Makes me wonder about DOJ and why, the heck, it was that important for someone to waste millions of dollars and a lot of time to charge these two (and discredit AIPAC) after they already got Lawrence Franklin (who wanted to cut a deal by giving prosecution a “conspiracy”).
Also good references on this thread from WSJ articles - they give useful information on just how “wrongful” this particular prosecution is :
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1921548/posts
If this case ever goes to trial (because of judge Ellis’ decision not to block defendants’ subpoenas, DOJ and/or WH may not want to continue with the case), it would be interesting if some details can be gleaned in testimony by Judith Miller, though I don’t know if judge would let it go that far.
I don’t know, as bad as this is they didn’t pump chemical agent into his home, set fire to it and shoot anyone on site trying to leave. The FBI must be slipping.
Okay, now that I’ve got that off my chest.
This story is told from the AIPAC person’s point of view. Naturally it would sound favorable to them. The FBI may have had a perfectly good reason for going after these guys.
It sound like it to me.
Ping.
Thanks for the pings and info. Not sure what’s going on yet but I’ve been keeping an eye on it. Regarding your post on Pike, he’s acknowledged as helping Isikoff and Corn with their book on Plamegate as well, and in some similar stuff I’ve seen, he seems to travel pretty closely with the usual suspects.
You are foolish or have had a very sheltered life.
And probably other apendages.
Neither is true, mad as he$$.
Thank you for your feedback, though.
I have had two retired FBI agents work for me over the years. They will both tell anyone who asks not to talk to ANY LEO willing (when they just want to "clear something up") and only with a lawyer under duress. The cop mind makes all a suspect.
Peace out.
Smiling at you...
A good day to you mad as he$$.
Reference posts # 2 and 3.
Either way the answer should be no.
When any alphabet agency wants to talk to me they had better have a warrant and then be warned that I invoke the "belligerent claimant" position - fully approved by the united States Supreme Court.
Smile on but I truly hope it is not you or someone from your family that suffers from their incompetence or out of control behavior.
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