"Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, two former top officials of AIPAC, and Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin were indicted by a federal grand jury (in Aug 2005) and charged with violating provisions of the Espionage Act... Rosen and Weissman sought out and cultivated Franklin, milking him for information that they dutifully transmitted to their Israeli handlers...

The AIPAC-Franklin espionage ring wasn't centered around financial gain but ideology. Franklin is a dedicated neoconservative...who served in the military attache's office in the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv [Israel] in the late 1990s and was a Defense Intelligence Agency analyst with expertise in Iranian affairs working in Douglas Feith's policy shop."

The U.S. Espionage Act of 1917 says that "whoever...delivers or transmits" national defense information "to any foreign government" faces 20 years in the slammer except "in time of war" when they can be executed. This includes the state of Israel and Zionist fifth columnists like Larry Franklin and the infamous Jonathan Pollard.

UPDATE:A federal judge threw out a motion to dismiss the case in August.

See: Justin Raimondo article (2007-05)