Results for "aipac franklin"

If even half of what’s in Jeff Stein’s CQ exclusive is true, this is a blockbuster scandal of historic proportions. It makes all of the pay-to-play scandals to date look like kindergarten games. Here’s the upshot:
Rep. Jane Harman , the California Democrat with a longtime involvement in intelligence issues, was overheard on an NSA wiretap [...]

Fox News and the Los Angeles Times report on the identity of the Democrat leak suspect–a staffer in the office of House Intelligence Committee member Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.). LA Times:
The aide was identified by other congressional officials as Larry Hanauer. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of a pending investigation into [...]

Reuters reports:
A former Pentagon analyst was sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison on Friday for passing U.S. defense information to two pro-Israel lobbyists and for sharing classified information with an Israeli diplomat.
Lawrence Franklin, 59, who previously worked as an analyst in the office of the secretary of defense, was sentenced by U.S. [...]

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 [...]

An update on the national security scandal that few seem to care about: According to JTA News, AIPAC is paying for the legal costs incurred by two former AIPAC officials who are suspected of passing classified information they allegedly got from Larry Franklin to Naor Gilon, an Israeli diplomat.
Related entries here.

FBI agents have begun asking reporters about conversations they had with former Department of Defense analyst Larrry Franklin, the New York Times reports:
The interviews by the Federal Bureau of Investigation are starting with four reporters, among them at least one newspaper journalist and others whose work has been published on the Internet, the officials said. [...]

Steve Rosen, recently fired as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s policy director in the wake of Larry Franklin’s arrest, expects to be indicted for passing classified information to Israel, according to JTA:
Rosen expects that a trial could begin as early as January 2006 and already is preparing for a long defense, according to multiple [...]

More on Larry Franklin and the national security scandal few seem to care about…
-AIPAC seems to be breathing a sigh of relief and is expecting Washington to go about business as usual when the lobbying group holds its annual conference in two weeks. The Jerusalem Post reports…
In a little over two weeks, AIPAC holds its [...]

So far, the commentariat and blogosphere (both left and right sides) have been curiously quiet about the news that Pentagon official Larry Franklin was arrested for improperly passing classified information to AIPAC.
Last summer, you may recall, there was quite a bit of analysis–from colleagues I respect and admire–downplaying the case.
Despite the arrest and the gravity [...]

The AP reports this afternoon:
The FBI arrested a Pentagon analyst Wednesday on charges that he illegally passed classified information about potential attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq to employees of a pro-Israel group.
Larry Franklin, 58, of Kearneysville, W. Va., turned himself in Wednesday morning, FBI spokeswoman Debra Weierman said. He was scheduled to make an [...]

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee has fired two senior employees who are involved in a long-running federal investigation of possible Israeli spying in the United States, according to a New York Times article:
Officials have said Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weissman knew Lawrence A. Franklin, a Defense Department analyst who is suspected of giving them [...]