Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Could they get any looser?
This sounds like it might get very interesting...
In his commentary titled "Expect Journalistic Tongues to Loosen", Jack Kelly says:
"Journalists will be paying rapt attention when Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman go on trial next month for violation of the Espionage Act of 1917."
"Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weissman were officials of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee. They received classified information from Lawrence Franklin, an analyst at the Department of Defense, which they passed on to an Israeli diplomat, and to journalists. They are the first private citizens ever to be prosecuted under the Espionage Act."
