The same day, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents, accompanied by media camera crews, raided AIPAC offices with a warrant to inspect the paper and electronic files of Steven Rosen. This led to intense worldwide media attention to the allegation that AIPAC was enmeshed in a major espionage program. Critics of AIPAC and Israel saw validation for their thesis that pro-Israel advocacy is inimical to the American national interest. In "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" (2007), for example, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt write that, although countries spying on their allies is common enough to be "neither surprising nor particularly reprehensible, ... [n]onetheless, the close relationship between Washington and Jerusalem has made it easier for Israel to steal American secrets, and it has not hesitated to do just that. At the very least, Israel's willingness to spy on its principal patron casts further doubt on its overall strategic value, especially now that the Cold War is over." Pentagon official Lawrence Franklin was indicted on May 26, 2005, and Rosen and Weissman were indicted on August 4, 2005. The prosecution was brought under various sections of the Espionage Act, for example . Some of the laws had been in effect since 1917. One provision under which Rosen and Weissman were indicted—section 793(e)—was added in 1950 under the McCarran Internal Security Act. The case largely hinged on a telephone conversation between the two men and "Washington Post" reporter Glenn Kessler. The indictment of Rosen and Weissman, filed in Alexandria, Virginia on August 4, 2005, alleges that:  "Between in or about April 1999 and continuing until on or about August 27, 2004, in the Eastern District of Virginia and elsewhere, defendants Lawrence Anthony Franklin, Steven J. Rosen, and Keith Weissman did unlawfully, knowingly and willfully conspire, confederate and agree together and with others, known and unknown to the Grand Jury, to commit the following offenses against the United States:  The indictment stated:  Rosen and Weissman were accused of receiving classified information and disclosing it to others. Their defense claimed that government officials are often authorized to disclose classified information to groups like AIPAC, to advance the national interest. The judge’s ruling on November 2, 2007, ordered Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and more than 10 other prominent current and former government officials to testify at the trial. The opinion directed that subpoenas be issued to Rice, national security adviser Stephen J. Hadley, former Department of Defense officials Paul D. Wolfowitz and Douglas J. Feith, and former deputy secretary of state Richard L. Armitage.