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March 7, 2006 Expect Journalistic Tongues to Loosen By Jack Kelly Journalists will be paying rapt attention when Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman go on trial next month for violation of the Espionage Act of 1917. Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weissman were officials of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee. They received classified information from Lawrence Franklin, an analyst at the Department of Defense, which they passed on to an Israeli diplomat, and to journalists. They are the first private citizens ever to be prosecuted under the Espionage Act. Mr. Franklin pled guilty Jan. 20th and was sentenced to more than...

Democrats have waxed apoplectic -- or rather they have pretended to wax apoplectic -- over the allegation that someone in the Bush White House supposedly leaked the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame, in retaliation for her husband Joseph C. Wilson IV 's activities as a fiercely partisan anti-war propagandist. Whoever leaked Madam Plame's identity should be jailed, say the spinmeisters. "According to Section 421a of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, the unauthorized identification of a CIA operative is a criminal act punishable by up to ten years in federal prison," states an indignant press release from Democratic Senator Charles...

Wed September 10, 2003 02:16 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top CIA expert on weapons of mass destruction, who became embroiled in controversy over whether the White House stretched evidence about Iraq's programs, said he planned to leave the agency in October. Alan Foley, who heads the Weapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation, and Arms Control Center, told colleagues in a note dated Aug. 29 that he had been "thinking about life after the agency for some time" and decided to leave after 26 years to enter the private sector. He alluded to this summer's finger-pointing between the Central Intelligence Agency and...

AMBASSADOR JOSEPH C. WILSON, IV Ambassador Wilson is CEO of JCWilson International Ventures, Corp., a firm specializing in Strategic Management and International Business Development. Ambassador Wilson served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council from June 1997 until July 1998. In that capacity he was responsible for the coordination of U.S. policy to the 48 countries of sub-Saharan Africa. He was one of the principal architects of President Clinton’s historic trip to Africa in March 1998. Ambassador Wilson was the Political Advisor to the Commander-in-Chief of United States Armed Forces,...