On November 22 IRmep filed a 40-page brief in the DC federal appeals court seeking an injunction against U.S. foreign aid transfers to Israel. The Appellant Reply Brief details the decades-old system of U.S. federal government prior restraint used to subvert Arms Export Control Act restrictions on foreign aid to non-NPT nuclear weapons states, in this case Israel.
Highly readable, the filing is a mini-history on the suppression of the release of U.S. government information about Israel’s nuclear weapons, and the real rationale behind “nuclear ambiguity.” Major sections of the filing include:
- Why IRmep has standing to challenge “nuclear ambiguity.”
- The Administrative Procedure Act is an appropriate avenue for challenging prior restraint.
- Proof that the U.S. government is violating, rather than possibly “secretly complying” with, the Arms Export Control Act.
- Direct injuries sustained by the plaintiff and other public accountability organizations.
- Why the Freedom of Information Act is insufficient to redress “nuclear ambiguity” injuries.
- Why a $238 billion injury inflicted on Americans warrants an extraordinary court-ordered remedy.
Read the brief online. (PDF) Read all major filings at IRmep’s Center for Policy and Law