In Loving Memory of
GERALDINE RISSMAN
March 6, 1936 - December 14, 1994
It has been 10 years since you left us.
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Not a single word was spoken.
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go up north or to the zoo,
Every time we see a great blue heron,
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Jewish Support
Washington
federal prosecutor's decision to
bring an investigation involving
the American Israel Public
Affairs Committee to a grand jury is, at
the least, an unwanted distraction at a
critical time for the top Israel lobby —
and some worry that it could hamper
the organization's effectiveness.
FBI agents searched AIPAC's head-
quarters in Washington on Dec. 1, seiz-
ing files associated with two senior
staffers who were interviewed in August
amid allegations that a classified
Pentagon document was leaked and
passed on to Israel.
The agents also served subpoenas on
four other senior staffers to appear
before a grand jury later this month.
The four were Howard Kohr, the group's
executive director; Richard Fishman, the
managing director; Renee Rothstein, the
communications director; and Raphael
Danziger, the research director.
Though some AIPAC officials and lay
leaders in past months sought to portray
the investigation as dying down, sources
•
said federal investigators have inter-
viewed several former AIPAC employees
in recent weeks. AIPAC officials deny
that any staff member has done any-
thing wrong.
"Neither AIPAC nor any member of
our staff has broken any law," AIPAC
said in a statement. "We are fully coop-
erating with the governmental authori-
ties. We believe any court of law or
grand jury will conclude that AIPAC
employees have always acted legally,
properly and appropriately."
But the grand jury deliberations will
preoccupy key AIPAC staffers at a time
that Israel's government is seeking Bush
administration and congressional sup-
port for renewed talks with the
Palestinians and ahead of a planned,
controversial withdrawal from Gaza.
"It is obviously a very serious matter,"
said Laurie Levenson, a law professor at
Loyola Law School in Los Angeles and a
former prosecutor. "It does not necessar-
ily mean there will be indictments or
that we know who the targets are, but a
grand jury has a great deal of power.
They can call witnesses, documents,
people who go can't bring lawyers — it's
Officials from other American Jewish
organizations continued to stand by
AIPAC and expressed outrage over the
course of the investigation. "The behav-
ior is very disturbing, that 10 guys raid
an organization that has always been
willing to cooperate," said Malcolm
Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the
Conference of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organizations, of
which AIPAC is a member.
"The pattern here has the appearance
of being problematic — behavior that
has been going on months, if not years,"
said Hoenlein.
Supporters of the pro-Israel lobby
have suggested that the investigation is a
witch hunt led by one or two FBI
rogues with a history of harassing Jews
and Jewish organizations.
Those close to AIPAC vigorously
defended its integrity. "I can never
remember a moment when the senior
team, from Howard Kohr right down
the line, weren't fully cognitive of what
was appropriate and dignified," said
Steve Grossman, AIPAC's president
from 1992-97. "I cannot think of a sin-
gle moment when I felt that any infor-
mation being transmitted or discussed
was in any way inappropriate."
Because of the secret nature of FBI
investigations and grand jury proce-
dures, few people know the focus of the
search and whether AIPAC or the two
staffers interviewed in August — Steve
Rosen, the director of foreign policy
issues, and Keith Weissman, the foreign
policy deputy director — are even the
targets.
Top AIPAC staffers and lay leaders
were pulled away for hours Dec. 1 on a
conference call to discuss the matter.
Other former AIPAC employees sug-
gested the group could be under investi-
gation for acting as an agent for Israel.
Under the Foreign Agent Registration
Act, a foreign agent is any individual or
group that works under the direction of
a foreign government. AIPAC, however,
has always maintained that it represents
American supporters of the Jewish state,
not Israel itself.
"If it turns out that AIPAC staffers
were involved in illegal activities, it will
hurt AIPAC's reputation on the Hill,"
A
Mom, our hearts are still very broken,
There will never by anyone quite like you,
We know that you are watching and guiding us,
and we just want to say we love and miss you.
Up to
MATTHEW E. BERGER
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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