Lawrence Franklin got 12 years today for sharing classified information with AIPAC on DoD matters concerning Iran and Israel.
See AP Story
As this investigation spins into uncharted territory, now after Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman former employees of AIPAC, it begs the question of why these characters are not being treated like Aldrich Ames with there fast and loose handling of American secrets. Read the AP story and tell me they are not being portrayed as neocon patriots reforming NSC rather than a cabal of Zionists bent on pursing Israeli strategic policies.
The judge said Friday that Franklin believed the National Security Council was insufficiently concerned with the threat posed by an unspecified Middle Eastern nation. Franklin thought leaking information might eventually persuade the Security Council to take more serious action, he said.
While the Middle Eastern country was not named in the court record, sources and the facts of the case point to Iran.
Ellis said he viewed Franklin's case differently than a case involving information leaked to the Soviets at height of the Cold War.
"But not different to the extent of excuse. Not at all," Ellis said.
Franklin at one time worked for Feith, then the Pentagon's No. 3 official, on issues involving the Middle East. During a court appearance last year, Franklin said he would occasionally be questioned directly by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and former top Pentagon official Paul Wolfowitz on policy issues.
This is treason plain and simple. How many more policy makers are wrapped up in the Israeli flag, destabilizing the Middle East with their neocon visions, all the while dismantling the National Security Council and folks like Lawrence Wilkerson. I point out Wilkerson because his assessment of the background of the collapse of our National Security apparati is central to how the neocons operate. They intend on running foreign policy outside of the well established improvements of Carter, Reagan, and Bush I with respect to the NSC. His analysis is damning and frightening and connect the dots between Bush II and Clinton.
Folks these people should be treated for what they are - Traitors. Any who associate with AIPAC including H.R.Clinton and Joseph Leiberman should be called out for their anti-american and foreign takeover of policy.