Wampum

I'll update the candidate info but "breaking news".

The psychopathic liar who's held the Pentagon's "Iran Desk" during most of the Bush regime to date was bagged this morning. Lawrence A. Franklin was one of the "in crowd" in Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith's office, up until June 30, 2004, when his TS (or above) clearance was suspended. The former DIA analyst surrendered this morning to the FBI, where he was placed under arrest and charged with disclosing classified information to two Israelie spys (cover American Israel Public Affairs Committee). The criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia charges that on June 26, 2003 Franklin provided classified military information on Iraq to two individuals.

Feith, "the dumbest [expletive] guy on the planet" (Tommy Frank's opinion) had Franklin invent the sinister twist to Iran's uranium commercial fuel enrichment centrifuge story, making it wicked dangerous to adult American journalists, who don't lose a wink of sleep over the technically equivalant (but not Franklo-Feith'd) United States Enrichment Corporation's American Centrifuge project in Piketown Ohio.

His other accomplishements have been to transform the support for the Northern Alliance by Iran (and the US) during the Afgan War, and the arrests of Al Quida cadres (over five hundred, some quite high-level) by Iran into Iran's obstruction of the War on Terror, the transformation of the 4,000 MEK cultists bagged at Camp Ashraf into a "popular resistance organization" (credits shared with Swift Boater Corsi), and turning the Iranian efforts to calm Iraq, which cost Khalil Naimi, the first secretary of the Iranian Embassy his life, and to some benefit to Iran, but not at a cost of hundreds of car-bombed political, para-military and civilian Iraqi casualties plus a sprinkling of American dead and wounded each week, into ... Iranian infiltration and destablization.

One of Cheney's men. Only 10 years. Kevin Mitnick's initial charge sheet was good for 35 years on a phone phreaking beef. Kevin Poulsen, who worked for me at SRI, had a charge sheet that ran for 37 years, again the core complaint was a phone phreaking beef. If Kevin had moved TS data out of the SRI SCIF (where I sent him to daily re-key a link to SAC somewhere not in California), I expect he'd have gotten 27 more years, not 27 less. Is a dime with down-sentencing and time off really enough to ensure that a criminal subordinate turns on a criminal superior?