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(回答先: Re:イスラエルがアメリカで行っていたスパイ活動 投稿者 World Watcher 日時 2005 年 10 月 08 日 09:27:32)
イラクの機密情報をイスラエル・ロビー団体（AIPAC）やイスラエル大使館員に機密情報を流した容疑でFBIに逮捕された米国防総省分析官ローレンスA.フランクリンが有罪を認めた。
こういう人たちを逮捕することが『テロ対策にとって最も有効』な手法です。
しかし、ブッシュ政権内部で何かが起こっているかもね。シリア・イラン攻撃阻止が狙い？
■Guilty plea entered in Pentagon spy case
Top Defense Department analyst Lawrence A. Franklin pleads guilty to giving classified information to an Israeli embassy official and members of a pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC
Associated Press
A top Defense Department analyst with expertise in the Middle East pleaded guilty Wednesday to giving classified information to an Israeli embassy official and members of a pro-Israel lobbying group.
Lawrence A. Franklin, 58, said during a plea hearing that he was frustrated with government policy and that he had hoped the two members of American Israel Public Affairs Committee(AIPAC) could influence policy with their connections at the National Security Council.
He also admitted giving classified information to a political official at the Israeli embassy, but said the information he received from the official was far more valuable than what he gave.
“I knew in my heart that his government had this information,” Franklin said. “He gave me far more information than I gave him.”
Franklin pleaded guilty to two conspiracy counts and a charge of unlawful retention of national defense information. U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III set sentencing for Jan. 20.
Franklin spoke directly to an Israeli official
Franklin, who was one of the Pentagon’s policy experts on Iran and the Middle East, was indicted in June on five charges.
The two AIPAC officials who allegedly received the information, Steven Rosen of Silver Spring, Md., And Keith Weissman of Bethesda, Md., Also have been charged with conspiring to obtain and disclose classified U.S. Defense information.
AIPAC fired Rosen and Weissman in April. Both AIPAC and Israel deny any wrongdoing.
According to the indictment, Franklin met periodically with Rosen and Weissman between 2002 and 2004 and discussed classified information, including information about potential attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq.
Rosen and Weissman would subsequently share what they learned with reporters and Israeli officials.
On at least one occasion, Franklin spoke directly to an Israeli official. Rosen, a top lobbyist for Washington-based AIPAC for more than 20 years, and Weissman, the organization’s top Iran expert, allegedly disclosed sensitive information as far back as 1999 on a variety of topics, including al-Qaida, terrorist activities in Central Asia, the bombing of Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia and U.S. Policy in Iran, according to the indictment.
Franklin at one time worked for the Pentagon’s No. 3 official, policy undersecretary Douglas Feith, on issues involving Iran and the Middle East.
First Published: 10.06.05, 00:05
Latest Update: 10.06.05, 00:23
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0%2C7340%2CL-3151394%2C00.html
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