Judge allows Rosen lawsuit agains AIPAC

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"A judge is allowing Steve Rosen's defamation lawsuit against AIPAC to go ahead.

In a decision handed down Oct. 30 and made available on Tuesday, Judge Jeanette Clark of the District of Columbia Superior Court narrowed the scope of Rosen's suit against his former employer; it rests now on a single statement Patrick Dorton, a contracted spokesman for the American Israel Public Affairs Commiteee, made to the New York Times on March 3, 2008.

At that time, Dorton alleged that Rosen, AIPAC's former foreign policy chief, had been fired in March 2005 because he "did not comport with standards that AIPAC expects of its employees."

Rosen was fired seven months after FBI agents raided AIPAC offices in a classified information investigation. Rosen and AIPAC's Iran analyst, Keith Weissman, were indicted in August 2005 on charges of relaying national defense information; the prosecution dropped the charges in May of this year.

During the pretrial period, motions showed that AIPAC, while initially supportive of Rosen and Weissman, had come under U.S. government pressure to fire them."

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Meanwhile...

Declassified FBI File Alleges an Israeli Intelligence Agent Worked at AIPAC

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"An agent of the Israeli intelligence service worked on the staff of the American Israel Public Affairs
Committee (AIPAC) according to a newly declassified FBI file.

An August 13, 1984 secret communication from the FBI Washington Field Office
(WFO) to the FBI director states, "WFO files disclose that AIPAC is a powerful
pro-Israel lobbying group staffed by U.S. citizens. WFO files contain an
unsubstantiated allegation that a member of the Israeli Intelligence Service
was a staff member of AIPAC." The newly declassified document may be
downloaded from the Israel Lobby Archive at:

http://www.irmep.org/ILA/economy/08131984_WFO_DFBI_REPORT.pdf


The secret FBI file was declassified and released to the Institute for
Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep) under a Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) request. IRmep sought the FBI files to file a third amicus brief urging
Judge T.S. Ellis not to dismiss charges against two AIPAC staffers under the
1917 Espionage Act. The DOJ dropped espionage charges against former AIPAC
staffers Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman on May 1, 2009.

According to the newly released IRmep book "Spy Trade: How Israel's Lobby
Undermines America's Economy," the 1984 and 2005 espionage incidents were not
isolated events. Using declassified documents, "Spy Trade" documents Israeli
covert actions against US military and industrial targets from the 1940s
through the present.

"Spy Trade" also presents a damage assessment for the 1984 AIPAC industrial
espionage incident: US $71 billion in lost exports, equivalent to 100,000 jobs
over the last decade. "Spy Trade" may be purchased at MiddleEastBooks.com,
Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, and other bookstores."

http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS153349+05-Nov-2009+PRN20091105