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Sunday, May 29, 2005
Haaretz "Exclusive: Two senior AIPAC officials to be indicted by Justice Dept. under U.S. Espionage Act"

 

Haaretz "Exclusive: Two senior AIPAC officials to be indicted by Justice Dept. under U.S. Espionage Act"

Brad just e-mailed this from Haaretz and we're going to post it as a single entry. It's Nathan Guttman's "Virginia grand jury to submit the indictments:"

The U.S. Justice Department is expected to file indictments against two former senior American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) staffers - Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman - and, according to sources familiar with the affair, the charges will be subsumed under the Espionage Act.
A Virginia grand jury is now examining the evidence in the case, which involved receipt of classified defense information from Larry Franklin, a Pentagon official, and its transfer to the representative of a foreign country, Naor Gilon, of the Israeli embassy in Washington.
Sources involved in the case confirmed that the Espionage Act is on the agenda. However, there is also the possibility that the Justice Department is raising the intention to use that law with the purpose of reaching a plea bargain concerning a lesser offense, albeit one that is still covered by anti-espionage legislation in the U.S.
Presumably, if indeed such an indictment is filed against two former top-level AIPAC staff members, then Gilon's name will come up, even though he is not a suspect. Israeli officials say he was never questioned in the affair. Gilon heads the political department at the embassy.

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Posted at 10:26 pm by thecommonills
 


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