Shapiro told the appellate judges that AIPAC fired Rosen and invoked “standards” “to get the DOJ off AIPAC’s back.” But AIPAC had in fact “lauded” Rosen “for the same behavior in the past,” Shapiro said.
In an amicus brief, the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy argued that “AIPAC’s observable standard for employees is ‘solicit, obtain and leverage classified information without being criminally indicted.'”
AIPAC had acknowledged a lack of written standards, according to the appeals court. But its deputy executive director, Richard Lee Fishman, testified that there was an unwritten, “assumed standard that people would obey the law … with regard to classified information or any other illegal activity.” More