TWO FORMER AIPAC OFFICIALS INDICTED

By Michelle Malkin  •  August 5, 2005 05:20 AM

A few months ago, I noted that commentators and bloggers on both the Left and Right have been uncharacteristically quiet about the news that Pentagon official Larry Franklin was arrested for improperly passing classified information to AIPAC. I wonder if the indictment of two former AIPAC employees, Steven J. Rosen and Keith Weissman, will get the silent treatment too.

According to this morning’s Washington Post, Rosen and Weissman were “indicted yesterday on charges that they illegally received and passed on classified information to foreign officials and reporters a period of five years.” Presumably the foreign officials who received the classified information were Israeli. The leaked classified information reportedly related to Iran, Saudia Arabia, and al Qaeda.

AIPAC fired both Rosen and Weissman in April but, according to the Post, is still paying their legal fees.

The investigation was downplayed by several conservative commentators when the story was first publicized last summer. The fresh indictments of two former high-ranking AIPAC employees and Frankin’s continued unwillingness to cooperate with law enforcement officials should raise some red flags.

One of the few bloggers who hasn’t ignored the story, Ed Morrissey, wrote in May, “Those of us who were outraged by [Sandy] Berger’s destruction of top-secret documents should be just as outraged over these developments in the Franklin case.” Yep.

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