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Kramarsic, Brett M.
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Did you see this 0!1 JTA? Need to start calling-Reilly "That's Classifjed!" instead.
Fonner Pentagon man pleads guilty,
will testify against ex-AlPAC officials
By Ron Kampeas
~~f'ANDRIA, Va., Oct 6 (JTA) - Lawrence Franklin's pleabargain
p~edge to cooperate with the U.S. government in its case
against two former AIPAC officials was"put to the test as soon as itwas
made.
"Itwas unclassified and it is unclassified," Franklin,'a former Pentagon
analyst, in~isted in court Wednesday, describing a document that the
government maintains is classified. The document is central to one of
the conspiracy charges against Steve Rosen, the fonner foreign policy
chiefofthe American Israel Public Affairs Committee..
Guilty p~eas usually are remorseful, sedate ~airs. But Franklin
appeared defiant and agitated Wednesday.as he pleaded guilty as part
ofa deal that may leave him with a reduced sentence and part ofhis
government pension.
Franklin's prickliness c,ould prove another setback for the U.S.,
gove~ment in a case that the presiding judge already has suggested
could be dismissed because ofquestions about access to evidence..
Franklin',s performance unsettled prosecutors, who will-attempt to
prove that Rosen and Keith WeJssman, AIPAC's former Iran analyst,
conspired with Franklin to communicate secret information. The case
goes to trial Jan. 2.
The argument over tlie faxed document furnished the most dramatic
en~unterWednesday~
"Itwas a list ofmurders," Franklin began to explain to U.S. District
Judge T.S. Ellis when Thomas Reilly, a youthful, red-headed lawyer
from the Justice Department, leapt from his seat, shouting, "Your
Honor, that's classified!"
·Ellis agreed to seal that portion ofthe hearing. JTA has learned that the
fax was a list ofterrorist incidents believed to have been backed by
Iran..
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