Sunday, January 22, 2006
 It's a start...
From Los Angeles Times January 20, 2006: "A former Pentagon analyst who slipped classified information to Israel was sentenced today to more than 12 years in prison by a federal judge in Virginia.
Lawrence A. Franklin, who had worked with top Defense Department officials, pleaded guilty in October to three felony counts of giving secrets to an Israeli Embassy official and a pro-Israel lobbying group here...
Franklin, now 59, told a U.S. District Court judge that he committed the crimes out of frustration with a U.S. policy in the Middle East that he did not detail. In exchange for his guilty pleas, three counts against him were dropped.[...]
Franklin believed that the National Security Council was insufficiently concerned with the threat posed by an unspecified Middle Eastern country, presumed to be Iran. . . Franklin thought that leaking information might persuade the NSC to take more serious action.[...]
Two members of the pro-Israel lobby who since 2003 received information from Franklin — Steven J. Rosen and Keith Weissman, both of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee — are scheduled to go on trial later this year. As part of his plea agreement, Franklin agreed to cooperate in those cases.
At one time, Franklin was a Pentagon desk officer who focused on Iran...
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