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Saturday, November 7, 2009

Judge allows Rosen lawsuit agains AIPAC

JTA - Nov. 3
A judge is allowing Steve Rosen's defamation lawsuit against AIPAC to go ahead.

...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...''

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. Full story