Matt Yglesias makes an excellent point here in Tapped:

One more observation out of the American Jewish Commitee event. Outside in the halls I heard some AJC folks chatting concernedly about the Larry Franklin case and what it all means. In that regard it's worth noting that AIPAC's denial that it's done anything wrong here could be perfectly consistent with the charges against it of having passed classified information to the Israeli government being perfectly true. The legal onus to safeguard these secrets lies entirely with government officials -- if Franklin passed something to an AIPAC staffer or two, it wouldn't necessarily be illegal for AIPAC to hand that information on to Tel Aviv. Only Franklin would be breaking the law.

I agree.

Posted by Laura at August 31, 2004 02:43 PM