Is the PNAC veneer beginning to crumble?

[The Backlash Cometh]

Pentagon Analyst Charged With Disclosing Military Secrets
By DAVID JOHNSTON and ERIC LICHTBLAU

WASHINGTON, May 4 - Federal agents arrested a Pentagon analyst on Wednesday, accusing him of illegally disclosing highly classified information about possible attacks on American forces in Iraq to two employees of a pro-Israel lobbying group.

The analyst, Lawrence A. Franklin, turned himself in to the authorities on Wednesday morning in a case that has stirred unusually anxious debate in influential political circles in the capital even though it has focused on a midlevel Pentagon employee.

The inquiry has cast a cloud over the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which employed the two men who are said to have received the classified information from Mr. Franklin. The group, also known as Aipac, has close ties to senior policymakers in the Bush administration, among them Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who is expected to appear later this month at the group's annual meeting.

The investigation has proven awkward as well for a group of conservative Republicans, who held high-level civilian jobs at the Pentagon during President Bush's first term and the buildup toward the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and who were also close to Aipac.

They were led by Paul D. Wolfowitz, the former deputy defense secretary who has been named president of the World Bank. Mr. Franklin once worked in the office of one of Mr. Wolfowitz's allies, Douglas J. Feith, the under secretary for policy at the Pentagon, who has also said he is leaving the administration later this year.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/05/politics/05spy.html?hp&ex=1115352000&en=f2d5cea78e9a237d&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[Wilms]

1. So glad to hear.

I read about LooseLips Larry earlier, but was hoping to see Fang & Feith in the cross-hairs.

(fingers-crossed)

[FlemingsGhost]

2. No. America is starting to unravel.

Still not completely sure if that was the plan all along ...

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. I always wondered what they would do when word of the real

networks behind the curtains became common knowledge among common Americans. How far will the correction go? I really do hope that Americans begin to realize that the door between the private and public sector needs to be more like a vault, than a revolving door.

[izzie]

3. Very interesting and then also the missing money item

I think I recall that Iraq money and fix up was turned over to new Rep. just out of college. It seemed an odd job to put these young men into such a job and you could see the writing on the wall. Same with the men in this job and story. Anything goes and no one is at fault. It is time the USA pulled back and left the world to run its self as it can hardly run things here.

[Lexingtonian]

5. the Cold War's aftermath is coming an end

and the last bit players prolonging the game of Empire are overplaying their roles, and therefore being rounded up.

We seriously need a DU icon of a steel cage dropping over a wingnut smilie....