Larry Franklin Interviewed

Larry Franklin discusses the AIPAC case in an exclusive interview with the Washington Times and says the FBI double crossed him. Instead of treating Israel as the enemy and searching for phantom Israeli moles, the FBI would do well to focus on actual threats to this country, like muslim terrorists for example. In fact it is amongst muslims working in our government where they are likely to find actual moles out to do harm to America. That is where there suspicions should be focused on.

Today’s Washington Times has a fascinating expose, “EXCLUSIVE: Defense analyst in spy case was FBI double agent”of how far the anti-Israel cabal in the FBI went when they double crossed Defense Analyst Larry Franklin. Bill Gertz, Washington Times Intelligence beat columnist,was granted an exclusive interview with Franklin. You may recall that Federal Judge T.S. Ellis, III in the Eastern Virginia District Court in May dramatically reduced his sentence against the objections by Federal prosecutors who withdrew the malformed case against AIPAC senior staffers, Keith Weissman and Steve Rosen after a Richmond Federal Appeals Court dismissed the government’s evidentiary motions. We have posted on this murky and unsettling episode for nearly four years,originally here, and more recently, here.

Ken Timmerman in his book, “Shadow Warriors” had divulged the strong arm methods the FBI used to euchre Franklin into serving as a double agent. We believe that the FBI cabal was lead by former Associate Director David Szady who had let it be known that the national law enforcement agency was intent on finding an Israeli mole inside the US government, based erroneously, as it turned out in the disastrous AIPAC case. Federal Prosecutors relied heavily on the thin reed of a 90 year Sedition law, questionable evidentiary standards in filed court motions and sought a ‘closed court’ proceeding, which ultimately was quashed by the Richmond Federal Appelate court dismissal rulings. Messrs. Weissman and Rosen were simply doing what Washington journalists, including Gertz, have done which is revealing ex parte conversations with official sources, who don’t want to go on record; i.e., ‘leaking’. However, the Federal judiciary saw through this blatant attempt by the FBI and federal prosecutors effectively stopped the failed AIPAC case in its tracks, relieving former AIPAC seniors officials Weissman and Rosen from standing trial, and reduced Franklin’s prior sentence under a plea bargain.

Here are revelations from the Exclusive Washington Times interview with Larry Franklin.

Read the rest He also claims anti-Semitism motivated the investigation into AIPAC.