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March 19 . 2009

between foreign policy mandarins and
the policy community, journalists and
foreign diplomats.
Rosen and Weissman allegedly
received classified information having
to do with Iran and its backing for
terrorism. The case came to light fol-
lowing an FBI raid on AIPAC's offices
in August 2004.

teve Rosen, the former
AIPAC foreign policy chief
charged with receiving clas-
sified information, is suing his former
employer for defamation.
Rosen filed a civil action March 2
Initial Backing
in the District of
After the FBI raid, AIPAC stood by
Columbia Superior
the two employees, insisting they had
Court seeking $21
done nothing wrong. Rosen says he
million from the
even received a performance bonus.
American Israel
Seven months after the raid — just
Public Affairs
a month or so after Rosen received
Committee, its
his bonus — in March 2005, Rosen
officers at the time
and Weissman were fired. They were
of his dismissal in
indicted five months later.
Steve Rosen
2005 and an outside
Rosen's suit alleges that AIPAC gave
spokesman hired
in to government pressure to fire the
to deal specifically
two staffers, casting prosecutors in the
with the case. Should case as making threats that would not
it come to trial, the
be out of place in a legal drama.
civil case promises
"We could make real progress and
revelations of how
get AIPAC out from under all of us,"
AIPAC works its
the court filing quotes a prosecutor as
sensitive relations
saying.
with the executive
The filing draws its informa-
branch and allegedly tion from a motion by Rosen and
Keith
capitulated to gov-
Weissman to have the criminal case
Weissman
ernment pressure to
dismissed in 2007. The motion said
fire Rosen and Keith
the government violated the defen-
Weissman, its then-Iran analyst.
dants' right to a defense by threaten-
Weissman, Rosen's co-defendant
ing to charge AIPAC as well unless
in the criminal case underway in a
it fired Rosen and Weissman and
federal court in Alexandria, Va., is
stopped paying their legal fees.
not a plaintiff in the civil suit. He and
In sworn affidavits filed with
his lawyers declined comment, as did
the motion, lawyers for Rosen and
Rosen.
Weissman quoted lawyers for AIPAC
The core of Rosen's case is the
as saying that the decision to fire the
repeated claims by Patrick Dorton, the two came under government pressure.
outside spokesman for AIPAC named
T.S. Ellis III, the federal judge try-
in the suit, that Rosen and Weissman
ing the case, ultimately rejected the
were fired because they "did not
motion to dismiss but said its claims
comport with standards that AIPAC
were credible.
expects of all its employees."
At the time of the May 2007 ruling,
In seeking to prove that he was
Dorton brushed aside the motion's
the victim of "false and defamatory
claims. "AIPAC made all of its deci-
statements" made on AIPAC's behalf,
sions in this case alone based on the
the complaint describes Rosen as
facts of the situation and the organiza-
tumbling from the heights of a cozy
tion's intention to do the right thing,"
relationship with the highest echelons
he said.
of government to being shown the
Within months, however, AIPAC
door at AIPAC. Rosen describes his
agreed to pay a portion of Weissman's
own status as a high-flying conduit
legal fees and later came to a similar