Judy Miller and the AIPAC Spy Case
A report from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on the latest developments in the AIPAC spy case notes that "defense sources say they have reason to believe that the defendants relationship with a New York Times reporter might have been monitored."
Could this possibly refer to She Of The Turning Aspens? Read on ....
As I pointed out here, the indictment against AIPAC chief lobbyist Steve Rosen and his sidekick, AIPAC policy analyst Keith Weissman, details one incident that occurred on June 3, 2003, when the Pentagon's top Iran policy analyst, Larry Franklin met with Israeli diplomat Naor Gilon at the Pentagon Officers Athletic Club:
"The discussion centered on a specific person, not in the United Status government, and her thoughts concerning the nuclear program of the Middle Eastern country and, separately, certain charity, efforts in Foreign Nation A [Israel]."
At the time of the Franklin-Gilon tete-a-tete, the first inquiries into Valerie Plame's role in sending her husband to Niger were being made, including by Walter Pincus of the Washington Post. The previous week, on May 29, Libby had made inquiries at the State Department about Plame: by the end of the first week in July, Libby was moving into high gear on the Plame matter, going to the CIA, and the State Department, and finally confirming Plame's identity and background with Vice President Dick Cheney on June 12.
If the woman described in the AIPAC spy indictment is Judy Miller -- and I'd be willing to bet the farm that it is -- we have to ask: what kind of a "relationship" did Rosen and Weissman, both accused of spying for Israel, have with Scooter Libby's confidante?
