As Leaks Dry Up in FBI Investigation, Activists Still Fear Jury Probe

[seemslikeadream]

By Ori Nir
September 17, 2004

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The criticism of Feith, sources say, has little to do with his being Jewish or his advocating positions identified with Israel's right-wing Likud party. It also has little to do with his role in shaping the administration's policy on Iran, a policy that according to press reports was the subject of documents inappropriately transferred by Lawrence Franklin, the Pentagon specialist on Iran who is allegedly suspected of sharing secret documents with Israeli diplomats and with staffers at Aipac, to Israel or to Aipac.

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Feith was the subject of two unflattering profiles in the mainstream media over the weekend. In an interview with National Public Radio, Feith said, addressing his policy on Iraq: "I don't mean to claim that no mistakes were made. There were mistakes, but I think that some of the critics are unduly harsh and unrealistic."

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The only new tidbit of information on the investigation to emerge this week came from an interview in Time magazine with an unidentified ex- member of the Iraqi National Congress, the group headed by Ahmed Chalabi. The former INC member told Time that Franklin asked him several probing questions. The man said that Franklin questioned him only about possible leaks of secret American information to the INC.

The Time report seemed to confirm earlier accounts that Franklin is in fact cooperating with the FBI, and is trying to help investigators with another suspected espionage scandal in the Pentagon.

Law enforcement agencies reportedly suspect that a Pentagon official told Chalabi or one of his INC colleagues that the United States had obtained secret Iranian communications codes. Chalabi is allegedly suspected of disclosing that intelligence clue to the Iranian government.
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[Jackpine Radical]

1. Well, I guess that between them,

the mysterious person who leaked this story to the press and John Ashcorft have pretty well plugged this one up.