AIPAC Bares All to Quash Lawsuit by Grant Smith -- Antiwar.com

AIPAC Bares All to Quash Lawsuit by Grant Smith -- Antiwar.com

"AIPAC court filing gives inside look at wrongdoing - IRmep

On Nov. 8, 2010, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) filed a massive 260-page motion [.pdf] in the District of Columbia Superior Court. It asks Judge Erik Christian to dismiss former AIPAC employee Steven J. Rosen's $20 million defamation suit. In October the court dismissed all counts of the March 2009 lawsuit except for Rosen's claim of harm over AIPAC statements to the press that he did not uphold its standards of conduct. Rosen and AIPAC have, until now, abstained from filing damaging information about the internal workings of AIPAC in court. AIPAC's willingness to publicly air some extremely sordid and revealing content to get the remaining count thrown out before an alternative dispute resolution hearing begins in December is a sign that AIPAC is now fighting for its life, or, as one former AIPAC attorney put it "reason for being." If Rosen proves in court that AIPAC has long handled classified information while lobbying for Israel, the worn public pretense that AIPAC is anything but a stealth extension of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, from which it emerged in 1951, will end forever....

Essay: http://original.antiwar.com/smith-grant/2010/11/14/aipac-bares-all-to-quash-lawsuit/
Israel Lobby Archive: http://www.irmep.org/ila/11082010rosenvaipac.pdf (8 MB scanned filing)
Radio interview: http://antiwar.com/radio/2010/11/11/grant-f-smith-13/

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