Let's see where that lies on the Plamegate/Treasongate timeline:
The indictment of Larry Franklin in the OSP-AIPAC spy case records that Israeli intelligence was providing data about alleged Iranian WMDs that ended up in Pentagon files. Like the Niger yellowcake forgeries, these Iran documents were funneled through the OSP to the White House. The indictment show that the same persons in the OSP utilized the same criminal methods -- espionage and fraud against the United States -- in a conspiracy to prompt an American military attack against Iran, just as they had manipulated the U.S. to invade Iraq.
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April 13, 1999 - Steven Rosen, a staff analyst of the American-Israel Political Action Committee (AIPAC) and an associate begin passing classified documents obtained from US officials to Israeli intelligence officers in Washington.See, Franklin Indictment, p. 8, para. 1.
http://news.findlaw.com/nytimes/docs/dod/usfrnklin80205... May 23, 2003 - After a number of preliminary meetings with AIPAC personnel at which classified materials are revealed, Lawrence Franklin, OSP Iran desk Officer, has an unauthorized meeting with Naor Gilon, political officer at the Israeli Embassy. They discuss the nuclear program of Iran. Franklin incorporates information and advise provided by Gilon into an Action Memo for his superiors at OSP. See, Ibid. pp. 23-24, para. 6.
June 3, 2003 - Franklin and Gilon meet at the Pentagon Officers Athletic Club and discuss an unidentified American woman (likely, Judith Miller) who is not a government official and her views on the nuclear program of a Middle East country. Id., p. 24, para. 7
June 10, 2003 - State Department produces the famous INR memo that tells about Wilson's trip and his wife's involvement.
June 12, 2003 - Cheney tells Libby about Wilson's wife's work with C.I.A. and her involvement with Wilson's trip.
June 12, 2003 - the day of the conversation between Mr. Cheney and Mr. Libby, the Washington Post published a front page story reporting that the C.I.A. had sent a retired American diplomat to the Niger in February 2002 to investigate claims that Iraq had been seeking to buy uranium there. The story did not name the diplomat, who turned out to be Mr. Wilson, but it reported that his mission had not corroborated a claim about Iraq's pursuit of nuclear material that the White House had subsequently used in Mr. Bush's 2003 State of the Union address.
June 19, 2003 - Karl Rove attends party to celebrate 40th anniversary of Robert Novak's newpaper column; later (before grand jury October 2005) Rove tells Fitzgerald that he first heard about Wilson's wife at a social event outside the White House; says that he heard she works at C.I.A from Libby around July 8.
June 23, 2003 - (first interview) Libby tells Judith Miller about Wilson's wife's work at C.I.A. and her involvement with Wilson's trip (first meeting).
July 6, 2003 - Joe Wilson op-ed piece in NY Times saying "no uranium"; challenging the premises of going to war.
July 8, 2003 - (second interview during breakfast) Libby tells Miller about Joe Wilson's wife, clarifies previous conversation; same day or possibly later Miller records name "Valerie Flame" in notebook.
July 8, 2003 - Rove talks with Matt Cooper about Wilson's wife and C.I.A. work
July ?, 2003 - Rove confirms information about Wilson's wife for article Novak is preparing.
July 11, 2003 - earliest date that Robert Novak's column was distributed to newspapers; first published on July 14 outing Valerie Plame as C.I.A. operative.
December 3, 2003. Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald appointed.
In late 2003 and into the Spring of 2004, the FBI and CIA gathered evidence confirming the line of authorship for the forged Niger Yellowcake documents. Those were traced from Cheney's office back to the Pentagon Office of Special Plans (OSP) which obtained them after Michael Ledeen, Harold Rhode and Larry Franklin met in Rome in December 2001 with Manoucher Ghorbanifar. Chalabi, along with Ledeen and his old CIA and Iran-Contra figure Dewey Claridge and another former CIA officer, Alan Wolf, are now accused of forging the documents.
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=7681 During this same period, the FBI continues to monitor the exchanges of classified information and documents concerning Iran and Iraq nuclear programs between Franklin and three intelligence officials assigned to the Isareli Embassy in Washington.
May 4, 2004. Larry Franklin is arrested in the OSP-AIPAC spy case, but released as a cooperating witness.
May 20, 2004. Ahmed Chalabi is placed under CIA house arrest in Baghdad. The reason given at the time was that Chalabi was suspected him of corrupt trading in goods in Iraq and of passing information on to Iran.
June 8, 2004. Gilon receives classified information directly from Franklin. Id., p.25, para. 17.
August 27, 2004. Leslie Stahl of CBS News reveals the FBI investigation into the Franklin-AIPAC spy case. Shortly thereafter, Gilon departs the US and does not return.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/08/27/eveningnews/m... November 9, 2004. Attorney General Ashcroft inexpectedly resigns.
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Michael Ledeen, Harold Rhode and Dewey Clarridge remain at large. Ledeen has been implicated in the plot by former CIA counter-terrorism chief Vincent Cannistraro. www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21704/
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