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The indictment [.pdf file] of Larry Franklin, the 58-year-old analyst who headed up the Pentagons Iran desk, marks a milestone in the FBIs four-year-plus probe into Israels covert activities in the U.S. The investigation predates 9/11 and involves some of the leading figures associated with planning and agitating for the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The players: a hardline faction of the administration committed to regime change not only in Iraq, but throughout the Middle East. Skilled at the art of bureaucratic infighting and relentlessly determined, even as the neocons plan for the invasion and occupation of Iraq was being implemented they were planning to put the next phase of their grand plan for the Middle East into operation: a confrontation with Iran.
Indictment Shows Washington Is ?Israeli-Occupied Territory? by Justin Raimondo -- Antiwar.com
At the Iran desk, Larry Franklin was the perfect patsy, the neocons gofer who was in a position to not only fight for their policies but also to provide them with sensitive intelligence [.pdf]. And thats where the bureaucratic turf wars that raged throughout this administration, between the neocons and the realists, crossed the line into treason.
The indictment lists two unindicted co-conspirators, identifying them only as CC1″ and CC2, but we know from numerous news accounts that they refer to Steve Rosen, AIPACs longtime public policy director, and Keith Weissman, the lobbys Iran specialist. For two years, the indictment charges, Franklin did unlawfully, knowingly, and willingly conspire, confederate, and agree, together with persons known and unknown to the Grand Jury, to communicate, deliver, and transmit information relating to the national defense to CC-1 and CC-2, persons not entitled to receive such information, with reason to believe that such information could be used to the injury of the United States and to the advantage of a foreign nation.
Indictment Shows Washington Is ?Israeli-Occupied Territory? by Justin Raimondo -- Antiwar.com
At the Iran desk, Larry Franklin was the perfect patsy, the neocons gofer who was in a position to not only fight for their policies but also to provide them with sensitive intelligence [.pdf]. And thats where the bureaucratic turf wars that raged throughout this administration, between the neocons and the realists, crossed the line into treason.
The indictment lists two unindicted co-conspirators, identifying them only as CC1″ and CC2, but we know from numerous news accounts that they refer to Steve Rosen, AIPACs longtime public policy director, and Keith Weissman, the lobbys Iran specialist. For two years, the indictment charges, Franklin did unlawfully, knowingly, and willingly conspire, confederate, and agree, together with persons known and unknown to the Grand Jury, to communicate, deliver, and transmit information relating to the national defense to CC-1 and CC-2, persons not entitled to receive such information, with reason to believe that such information could be used to the injury of the United States and to the advantage of a foreign nation.
