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FILTER RESULTS ►In AIPAC calls, Israel faces endless ‘serious threats’ from Hamas, Goldstone, terrorists, detractors, delegitimizers, Iran, Syria, the P.A., you name it
AIPAC calling! Below we publish four telephone pitches on behalf of the Israel lobby group the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and you can see that over four years, the script never changes. Israel is always on the cliff. Israel … Continue reading ?
HOUSE MULLS ADDITIONAL IRAN SANCTIONS
The House Foreign Affairs Committee has adopted a new package of sanctions against Iran to further discourage the Islamic Republic from using its nuclear research to build nuclear weapons. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee praised the the Nuclear Iran Prevention Act (H.R. 850) and urged the House to pass the measure. Read more here.
AIPAC Court Rules on Classification Markings, Juror Bias
Classification markings will be removed from classified documents that are admitted into evidence in the upcoming trial of two former officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a court ruled earlier this month. The former AIPAC officials, Steven J. Rosen and Keith Weissman, are accused of unauthorized receipt and disclosure of classified information. [...]Show More Summary
AIPAC Court Adopts Silent Witness Rule
Prosecutors will be permitted to secretly present certain recorded surveillance data to a jury in the forthcoming trial of two former officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) who are accused of unauthorized receipt and disclosure of classified information, a federal judge ruled (pdf) last week. Although the closely watched AIPAC case will [...]Show More Summary
Court Authorizes Subpoenas of Senior Officials in AIPAC Case
A federal court authorized issuance of subpoenas to more than a dozen current and former government officials to testify in the case of two former officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee who are accused of unauthorized receipt, transmission and disclosure of classified information. According to the defense, the testimony of the subpoenaed officials [...]Show More Summary
“Obnoxious” Govt Policy Won’t Force Dismissal of AIPAC Case
The presiding judge in the closely-watched prosecution of two former officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) charged with unlawfully receiving national defense information has denied a defense motion to dismiss the case on grounds of alleged constitutional violations by the government. The defense had argued that the case should be dismissed because [...]Show More Summary
AIPAC Trial Likely to be Postponed
The unprecedented trial of two former officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, who are charged under the Espionage Act with unlawful receipt and disclosure of national defense information, is likely to be postponed from its scheduled start date on June 4. The need to resolve disagreements between the parties over the handling of [...]Show More Summary
Court Rules That AIPAC Trial Must Be Open
(Updated Below) A federal court this week rejected a government proposal to restrict public access to evidence in the forthcoming trial of two former officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee who are charged under the Espionage Act with unauthorized receipt and transmission of classified information. Using a procedure called the Silent Witness Rule, [...]Show More Summary
AIPAC Court Considers “Silent Witness” Procedure
The forthcoming trial of two former officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee who are charged with mishandling classified information “won’t be a closed trial,” said Judge T.S. Ellis III at a March 15 hearing (pdf), notwithstanding some “hyperbolic” suggestions to the contrary. But there is an open question as to whether the prosecution [...]Show More Summary
Ruling in AIPAC Case Interprets Espionage Act Narrowly
In the unprecedented prosecution of two former officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a federal court last year upheld the government’s controversial claim that the Espionage Act could be used to prosecute the unauthorized receipt and transmittal of classified information by private citizens who are not engaged in espionage. But as the [...]Show More Summary
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In the latest ruling (pdf) in the prosecution of two former officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee for allegedly mishandling classified information, Judge T.S. Ellis III said that press leaks regarding the case did not constitute a violation of court rules because the leaks apparently derived from law enforcement sources and not from [...]Show More Summary
Burden of Proof in AIPAC Case is “Not Insubstantial,” Court Says
A federal court this month denied a motion that would have eased the government’s prosecution of two former officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee who are charged with mishandling classified information. Prosecutors had argued that they should not be obliged to prove that the defendants “actually knew the disclosure of the information was [...]Show More Summary
AIPAC Defendants Did Not Seek Classified Document, Court Rules
In a favorable decision for two former officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee who are charged with conspiracy to unlawfully gather national defense information, a federal court ruled (pdf) late last week that they did not solicit actual classified documents and that the government cannot now claim that they did. The latest decision [...]Show More Summary
Waiting for a Ruling in the AIPAC Case
In the near future a federal court will decide whether the prosecution of two former officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) for allegedly mishandling classified information can proceed, or whether it must be dismissed on First Amendment grounds. It will be a fateful decision either way. If the prosecution is permitted to [...]Show More Summary
“Unprecedented” AIPAC Prosecution Draws Growing Attention
The prosecution of two former officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) for allegedly mishandling classified information is attracting growing attention as the momentous character of the case and its implications for American civil liberties become clear. (AIPAC itself is not a defendant and is not accused of wrongdoing.) “When we say that [...]Show More Summary
The AIPAC Case: The Defense Strikes Back
Attorneys for two former officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee accused of mishandling classified information vigorously rebutted the latest prosecution arguments against their clients in an April 6 pleading (pdf). “In the history of the Espionage Act, the government has never embarked on a prosecution like this one — of private citizens outside [...]Show More Summary
Govt Defends Constitutionality of Charges in AIPAC Case
Government attorneys presented a robust justification of their decision to prosecute two former officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) for mishandling classified information in a supplemental brief (pdf) filed in the case last week. “In the final analysis, this case is not about free speech, foreign policy lobbying, or petitioning the government,” [...]Show More Summary
AIPAC Case Draws Growing Attention
The prosecution of two former officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) for mishandling classified information is attracting growing public attention and concern as the anomalous character of the case becomes increasingly clear. It bears repeating that the two defendants, Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman, are not accused of being agents of Israel [...]Show More Summary
The AIPAC Case: “Uncharted Waters”
The prosecution of two former officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) for allegedly receiving and communicating classified information without authorization poses novel legal issues, the presiding judge in the case said last week. “We are a bit in new, uncharted waters, and that’s why I’m going to consider this matter extremely carefully,” [...]Show More Summary
The AIPAC Case: Aiding and Abetting Leaks
The most troubling aspect of the prosecution of two former employees of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) for mishandling classified information is that prosecutors have adopted an expansive new interpretation of the...Show More Summary
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