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ＡＩＰＡＣスパイ事件、またの名をラリーフランクリン事件に関して、プレイム事件とのかかわりで大変興味深い、ジャスティン・ライモンドによる「憶測」記事を見つけましたので今後の事件の推移とその影響を考える上でおもしろいと思うので貼り付けます。
この二つの事件に関わる複雑な人間関係と命令系統等の相関チャートを見るとおわかりのようにこのプレイム事件に登場するネオコンとＡＩＰＡＣ事件の登場人物の中でどちらにも関連してくるのがジャーナリスト、ミラー。
ジャスティン・ライモンドによると、バレリープレイムの身元漏洩にイスラエルが関与していたのではないかという分析です。もっとはっきり言うと、ミラーはイスラエル側のスパイだったのではないかという憶測です。
さて、米国の刑法上、ＴＲＥＡＳＯＮすなわち、国家の防衛上の機密を外国政府に渡す国家に対する裏切り、大逆行為は死刑または終身刑にあたるそうです。（下に参考記事はりつけ）今頃、ローブ、リビー、チェイニー、ブッシュ、ライスに全てのネオコン陰謀団はもう戦線恐々というところなのではないでしょうか？
この二つの事件と起訴、さらに実情曝露はブッシュ政権、特にネオコン、さらにはイスラエルにとっては強烈な打撃となるのではないでしょうか？同時に、ネオコン陰謀団によって画策され遂行されてきた対イラク、イラン、シリアへの外交軍事政策にとって、今後重大な影響をあたえるのではと思われます。
October 21, 2005
Was Plame Outed by a Foreign Spy? The Larry Franklin-Plame connection
by Justin Raimondo
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Not a few have exposed the cabal Col. Wilkerson spoke of, but Fitzgerald – armed with the subpoena power and a passion for justice – is going after them with a vengeance, rooting them out of the corridors of power and hauling them into court, where they are being called to account. Fitzgerald is "turning" the foot soldiers of the cabal, the ones who did the dirty work, and getting them to rat on their commanding officers. Raw Story, which is the place to go these days for the latest in the rats' sweepstakes, reported that John Hannah, Dick Cheney's national security adviser, was turning state's evidence as of Tuesday, and Wednesday it was David Wurmser, Cheney's chief adviser on Middle East affairs.
Wurmser, whose Israeli-born wife Meyrav is director of the Center for Middle East Policy at the neoconservative Hudson Institute, is the principal author of a by-now-famous 1996 policy paper, "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm," prepared for then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by the Jerusalem-based Institute for Advanced Strategic Political Studies. The "Clean Break" strategy proposed an attempt by Israel to break out of its military and political isolation in the midst of a hostile Arab sea by pursuing regime-change in Iraq, and eventually Syria. Wurmser sought to mobilize the far-right wing of Israel's Likud party, represented by Netanyahu, around a vision of a Greater Israel surrounded by much lesser enemies. Syria, in Wurmser's view, was the main target, but the road to Damascus, he contended, had to run though Baghdad. "Whoever inherits Iraq dominates the entire Levant strategically," he wrote. The key to Israel's regional hegemony was in rejecting "land for peace" and creating a "natural axis" consisting of Israel, Jordan, and a Hashemite Iraq that could "squeeze and detach Syria from the Saudi peninsula." This would be "the prelude to redrawing the map of the Middle East" – to Israel's advantage, of course.
Among the other co-authors whose names adorn "A Clean Break": Douglas J. Feith, director of policy at the Department of Defense, and the ubiquitousRichard Perle, who is having his own problems with prosecutor Fitzgerald.
The connection of Israel to all this is plain enough: for the neoconservatives, Israel plays the same role as the old Soviet Union did to the American Communist Party. Acting sometimes in tandem with Tel Aviv, and always in Israel's interests, the cabal Wilkerson and others have identified is pursuing an ideological vision, which Seymour Hersh refers to above. Yet it could not be pursued in a vacuum, without the assistance of allies, and certainly the Israelis have played a key role in influencing the U.S. government to tread the path to war – covertly in the case of Iraq, and now quite openly when it comes to Syria and Iran.
The Israeli penetration of our national security has been put in the spotlight, lately, by the indictment – and guilty plea – of former Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin on charges of spying for Israel. During his tenure as the Pentagon's top Iran specialist, when he worked for Doug Feith, Franklin was caughtred-handed funneling highly classified information to Steve Rosen, AIPAC's chief lobbyist, and Keith Weissman, AIPAC's top foreign policy analyst, who then passed the stolen secrets on to the Israeli embassy. The interconnectedness of the investigation into AIPAC's treason with Fitzgerald's probe is underscored by the following passage from Franklin's indictment:
"On or about June 3, 2003, Franklin met with FO-3 [Naor Gilon] at the POAC [Pentagon Officers Athletic Club], and the discussion centered on a specific person, not in the United Status government, and her thoughts concerning the nuclear program of the Middle Eastern country and, separately, certain charity, efforts in Foreign Nation A."
If Franklin and his Israeli handler – a nuclear weapons specialist – were talking about a woman whose "thoughts concerning the nuclear program" of a certain "Middle Eastern country" had some significance, then surely Judith Miller is a likely candidate. When we add in the business about "certain charity efforts in Foreign Nation A," the identification becomes even more credible: "Foreign Nation A" is Israel, the "charity efforts" consist of work on behalf of the Iraqi Jewish Archive, a joint project undertaken by Miller, HaroldRhode (Franklin's associate – and fellow suspect – in Feith's policy shop), and Ahmed Chalabi. It might be said that these efforts on behalf of the Archive are not taking place "in Israel," as the wording of the indictment puts it, but the ultimate location of the archives is uncertain, and surely Israel is one very possible destination. In any case, it can safely be said that this is a project undertaken on Israel's behalf.
As Franklin and Gilon hung out at the Pentagon Officers Athletic Club, shooting the breeze, it seems Ms. Miller was the subject of their conversation, at least in part. Did the name Valerie Plame also come up?
The first week of June 2003, was an eventful time in the Plame outing drama: Walter Pincus, a Washington Post reporter, made inquiries at the CIA about Ambassador Joe Wilson's trip to Niger. Also that week, a memo addressed to undersecretary of state Marc Grossman referred to Plame. Plame's name and CIA affiliations were being whispered around Washington, and the knives were slowly being unsheathed and aimed at Ambassador Wilson's throat…
The FBI was listening as Franklin and Gilon discussed closely held national security secrets. The question is: Do the Feds have the two of them on tape gossiping about that troublesome gal over at the CIA's anti-nuclear-proliferation unit whose husband could potentially cause the War Party an awful lot of trouble?
Inquiring minds want to know. And I'm willing to bet I'm not the only one taking an interest in what transpired at the POAC that day.
What leads me to suspect something of the sort is that Rosen's and Weissman's lawyers are demanding access to all the extensive tapes and other materials recording the surveillance of their clients, but the government, in an unusual move, is refusing, much to the judge's consternation.
"I am having a hard time," said Judge T. S. Ellis to prosecutor Kevin DiGregori, "getting over the fact that the defendants can't hear their own statements, and whether that is so fundamental that if it doesn't happen, this case will have to be dismissed."
I wouldn't count on a dismissal, however. Judge Ellis seemed baffled as to the reason why the defendants couldn't hear their own incriminating words, but it could be their lawyers who are the problem. It wouldn't do for them to hear their clients "outing" Valerie Plame or otherwise implicating themselves in the Plame matter – such a revelation could endanger and possibly abort Fitzgerald's case at a crucially important moment in its gestation.
Amid all the speculation about who outed Plame, and who was in a position to know what she was up to, it is odd that no one has mentioned the possibility of a foreign intelligence agency being involved. Yet this would explain the nature of the conspiracy that Fitzgerald is said to be pursuing, going far beyond a possible violation of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act – and crossing the line into espionage.
Was Plame outed by agents of a foreign power? Given what we know, it's entirely possible. As to which country would be ruthless – and motivated – enough to do it, I hereby nominate "Foreign Nation A" as the most likely candidate.
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ＡＩＰＡＣとプレイム身元漏洩事件相関チャートの出所
http://www.franklingate.com/flowchart.htm
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ＡＩＰＡＣスパイ事件起訴状の原文の一部抜粋（グローバルセキュリティのサイト）
http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/library/reports/2005/franklin_indictment_04aug2005.htm
SUPERSEDING INDICTMENT
AUGUST 2005 TERM - AT ALEXANDRIA
THE GRAND JURY CHARGES THAT:
General Allegations
At all times material to this indictment:
1. Defendant LAWRENCE ANTHONY FRANKLIN was employed by the United States government at the Department of Defense (DoD) in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), International Security Affairs (ISA), Office of Near East and South Asia, Office of Northern Gulf Affairs, Iran desk, and held a Top Secret security clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI). FRANKLIN'S office was located within the Pentagon, in the Eastern District of Virginia. FRANKLIN was also a Colonel in the United States Air Force Reserve (USAFR).
2. Throughout his employment with the United States government, FRANKLIN repeatedly signed written agreements acknowledging his duty to safeguard classified information
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ＴＲＥＡＳＯＮの重大刑罰に関する関連記事
http://gaelicstarover.blogspot.com/2005/10/depth-of-treason_22.html
…from the Wayne Madsen Report (July 31, 2005):
“CIA sources report that at least one anonymous star placed on the CIA's Wall of Honor at its Langley, Virginia headquarters is a clandestine agent who was executed in a hostile foreign nation as a direct result of the White House leak. Rove could be looking at a lengthy prison term. Many Nixon officials spent years in prison for doing much less.”
This case is very serious
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（米国刑法）
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00000794----000-.html
§ 794. Gathering or delivering defense information to aid foreign government
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