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appointed attorney and Cacheris began representing him pro bono.,
Meanwhile, on Aug. 27,2004, the FBI counterintelligence division raided
AIPAC. The raid and the information about a Pentagon "mole" working
with AIPAC were immediately leaked to CBS.
Leslie Stahl led with the story on the network's evening news. On its
Web site, CBS headlined, "The FBI believes it has 'solid' evidence that
the suspected mole supplied Israel with classified materials that include
secret White House policy deliberations on Iran." A picture of the FBI's
Szady was prominently displayed next to the headline.
FBI investigators again searched AIPAc's headquarters on Dec. 1. The
agents subpoenaed four top officials to appear before a grand jUry in
Virginia. The four are Howard Kohr, the group's executive director;
Richard Fishman, the managing director; Renee Rothstein, the
communications director; and Raphael Danziger, the research director.
FBI officials refused to discuss the search and subpoenas. Szady" who
has been decorated twice by the CIA for distinguished service,
answered one critic by writing, "I am not at liberty to comment on
pending investigations."
An FBI source with knowledge of Szady's investigation bristled at the
intense media coverage of the counterintelligence division's tactic. Said
the source: aWe are just following the evidence and seeing where it
leads."
Meanwhile, four congressional Democrats have asked the Bush
administration to brief Congress on the FBI probe.,
In a letter last week to President Bush, U.S. Reps. Robert Wexler (0­
Fla.), Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), and Gary
Ackerman (D-N.Y.) ,said that with the case intensifying, Bush should
qlear up concerns about the probe's integrity.,
Citing reports about the alleged AIPAC sting and leaks to the media, the
letter said, "Mr. President, an honorable organization is on the line, as
are the reputations of dignified individuals, and Congress has yet to hear
from you or your ~dministration on this issue despite previous requests."
Franklin, meanwhile, is working menial outdoor labor jobs to support his
family, and remains uncertain where the case against him is going. Said
one source who knows him: ~He is literally shaking. He has been
destroyed."
(Award-winning New York Times best-selling investigative authorand
reporter Edwin Blac/< has covered allegations ofIsraelispying in the
United States since the Pollard case. Black's current best seller is
"Banking,on Baghdad"(Wiley), which chronicles 7,000 years ofIraqi
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