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<p>The case is a spin-off of a probe that has already led to charges under the Espionage Act against two AIPAC lobbyists, whose case is still pending, and to a 12-and-a-half-year prison sentence for former Defense Intelligence Agency official Lawrence A. Franklin. Franklin pleaded guilty a year ago to three felony counts involving improper disclosure and handling of classified information about the Middle East and terrorism to the two lobbyists, who in turn are accused of passing it on to a journalist and a foreign government, widely believed to be Israel. The two lobbyists, who have denied any wrongdoing but were dismissed by AIPAC in April of 2005, were indicted on felony counts of conspiring with government officials to receive classified information they were not authorized to have access to and providing national defense information to people not entitled to receive it.</p>

How the CIA Funds Anti-Bush Propaganda By Bill Gertz The Washington Times | September 14, 2004 The CIA's Counterterrorist Center has spent more than $15 million in the past three years funding studies, reports and conferences produced by former Democratic administration officials and other critics of the Bush administration. The latest effort was a $300,000 grant by the CIA to the Atlantic Council for a study co-authored by Richard A. Clarke, the former counterterrorism official who wrote a best seller accusing the Bush administration of failing in the war on terrorism by invading Iraq.

Newsview: Cheney Again at Center of Drama By RON FOURNIER, AP Political Writer Tue Oct 25, 7:26 PM ET WASHINGTON - It should surprise nobody that Vice President Dick Cheney is at the center of another firestorm. He's got his hands in just about everything at the White House. Now the administration's Mr. Fix-It faces a sticky political, if not legal, situation with the latest leak in the CIA leak investigation. "His name is thrown into the mix," said Stephen Hess, a presidential scholar and political analyst at the Brookings Institution. "Big time." Cheney once called a New York Times...

Journalist Ron Suskind is one-stop shopping for Bush administration castaways. But what if John DiIulio -- Suskind gave him a platform in Esquire magazine in 2002 to call the administration "the reign of the Mayberry Machiavellis" -- and Paul O'Neill had been shopping a conservative critique of Bush? Would Suskind have cracked open his notebook? Not likely. Few events excite liberal journalists more than the inevitable defection of an "insider" from a Republican administration, provided that the defector is a liberal who is telling the media what it wants to hear. What interests the Suskinds are not conservative defectors but...

The U.S. military can force its personnel to wear the blue beret of the United Nations and serve under the world body's command, a federal judge ruled. Judge Paul Friedman upheld the military's conviction of former Army specialist Michael New, who refused to don the U.N. cap and shoulder patch and to serve in a peacekeeping mission in Macedonia nearly 10 years ago, the New York Sun reported.

Brookings Institution to Hold Briefing on Gay Marriage 3/30/2004 10:20:00 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor Contact: Brookings Institution, 202-797-6105 News Advisory: WHAT: Brookings Briefing: "Can Gay Marriage Strengthen the American Family?" WHEN: Thursday, April 1, 10 - 11:30 a.m. WHERE: The Brookings Institution, Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC WHO: Presentation: JONATHAN RAUCH, writer in residence, The Brookings Institution; Columnist, National Journal Discussants: DAVID BLANKENHORN, founder and president, Institute for American Values SARAH BROWN, director, National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy WILLIAM GALSTON, Saul I. Stern professor, School of Public Affairs, and director, Institute for...

THIS IS AN UNCORRECTED TRANSCRIPT. P R O C E E D I N G S MR. STEINBERG: Good morning ladies and gentlemen and welcome to Brookings. I'm Jim Steinberg, the Director of the Foreign Policy Studies Program here. And it's my privilege to welcome and introduce Senator Hillary Clinton from New York as our speaker this morning. It's a cliché when somebody comes up to start an introduction to say, of course our speaker needs no introduction--but in this case it's no cliché. Our speaker, clearly, needs no introduction to this or any other audience. She's had a remarkable...

Sen. Hillary Clinton said this week that Iraqi women were better off under Saddam Hussein, arguing that when the brutal dictator ran the country women were at least assured the right to participate in Iraq's public life. In comments that went unreported by the mainstream press, the former first lady told the Brookings Institution on Wednesday that since Saddam's removal from power, Iraq's post war governing councils had engaged in "pullbacks in the rights [women] were given under Saddam Hussein." Sen. Clinton noted that while Saddam had been "an equal opportunity oppressor," women were at least assured certain constitutional guarantees....

<p>Criticism of Howard Dean's views on Iraq, North Korea and other defense issues is coming from corners of the liberal establishment, with analysts saying many of his campaign positions are confused, dangerous and border on appeasement.</p> <p>The Democratic presidential front-runner's opposition to the war that toppled Saddam Hussein's regime, and his present view that Saddam's capture will have no effect on U.S. national security, has infuriated his chief rivals for the nomination, who have been attacking his national security views with increasing ferocity in recent weeks.</p>

WASHINGTON — U.S. commanders like to boast that America has the best-trained, best-equipped and most disciplined military in the world. And in the march to and occupation of Baghdad, its skills have been on full display. But in the pre-dawn darkness and fog of Nasiriyah, at some Patriot missile batteries, on a highway with Kurdish forces in northern Iraq and at other places as yet unknown, the Americans’ training and equipment have deserted or betrayed them. At least a dozen U.S. and British troops have been killed and many more wounded by "friendly fire." In one firefight between groups of...