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May 06, 2005
Franklin the Traitor
Hopefully Larry Franklin will get a longer prison sentence than Sandy Berger did. I would bet that most people who go into national security work are loyal enough to their country that giving out classified info to other countries is not even a consideration for them. Newsday has the details:
An analyst in a controversial Pentagon intelligence office was charged yesterday with passing top-secret information to two staff members of a pro-Israeli lobbying group here.Charged was Larry Franklin, an Iran specialist who worked in the Office of Special Plans, established by Pentagon Undersecretary Douglas Feith in order to give Pentagon civilians an independent source of intelligence that could bolster the case for war with Iraq.
Michelle Malkin has more details on how serious Franklin’s crimes are. I think the death penalty is appropriate in cases like this, but I would need more information to see if this case warrants it.
Posted by Pete at May 6, 2005 04:58 PM
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