The year 2010 marked the 25th anniversary of the U.S.-Israel Free Trade Area (USIFTA). Documents newly declassified in 2009 reveal a stunning 1984-1987 FBI investigation of Israeli embassy and American Israel Public…
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AIPAC Triumphs Over Former Director’s Defamation Lawsuit…or Does It?
Special Report By Grant F. Smith On Feb. 22, 2011 District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Erik P. Christian dismissed a $20 million defamation lawsuit against the American Israel Public Affairs Committee…
Israel lobbyist funds US Presidents, Israeli Nukes, AIPAC disinformation
News release Declassified Documents FBI files released under the Freedom of Information Act unveil new details about the life of influential lobbyist Abraham Feinberg (1908-1998). Feinberg is best known for funding President Harry…
Egypt transcending failed “peace process” and Gaza prison wardenship?
Mubarak is not leaving the Egyptian presidency, but rather is simply delegating responsibilities to Vice President Omar Suliman, a gesture according to him that will satisfy protestors. The transition process will be…
Insurers Asked to Deny AIPAC Damage Claims over Classified Information Handling
A new legal filing asks insurers to deny American Israel Public Affairs Committee liability claims. In 2009 the Obama administration dropped Espionage Act prosecutions against two AIPAC employees indicted for soliciting classified…
Jalili Warns of Israel’s Atomic Warheads
…He [Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili] called on all countries and media to pay attention to the issue and ask in their negotiations and reports that why thousands of pages, news…
AIPAC Protests Disclosure of Its Secret Files
On Dec. 23, 2010, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee filed a 53-page motion [.pdf] asking Judge Eric Christian to sanction former employee Steven J. Rosen over the illicit possession and release of sensitive…
Economic Espionage Haunts AIPAC
Steven J. Rosen’s $20 million defamation lawsuit against his former employer, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, has now taken a predictable turn. AIPAC fired Rosen and fellow analyst Keith Weissman over…
US Pardon Attorney Denies Public Release of Pollard Clemency File
On October 15, 2010 Jonathan Pollard applied for commutation of his life sentence for spying for Israel. In response to a Freedom of Information Act request, the Department of Justice Pardon Attorney released…
Trafficking in Secrets is Normal at AIPAC
….In its latest filing to the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, where Rosen’s civil case is to be heard, AIPAC argued that it became aware that Rosen and Weissman had…
Group Asks IRS to Revoke AIPAC’s Tax Exemption
A group has sent a nearly 1,400-page filing to the Internal Revenue Service demanding that it �retroactively revoke� the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s tax-exempt status. The group, known as the Institute…
IRS Asked to Revoke AIPAC’s Tax Exemption
Center for Policy and Law Enforcement News Release WASHINGTON, Nov. 22, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Today the Internal Revenue Service received a 1,389 page filing demanding that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s…
Israeli False Flag Attack On U.S. Motivated 1963 Senate Investigations
Fears of false flag and foreign funded covert operations designed to influence US policy drove the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to launch exhaustive investigations and call for warranted enforcement of the Foreign…
AIPAC Bares All to Quash Lawsuit
Sex, spies, and videotape 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…
Jonathan Pollard’s First Freedom Gambit
DOJ Withheld Pre-Sentencing Espionage Case Files Attorneys filed a petition asking President Barack Obama to commute Jonathan Pollard’s life sentence. The petition argues that Pollard, a civilian U.S. Navy analyst who pled guilty to…
America’s Worst Preferential Trade Pact
…Israel officials were found by the FBI to have in their possession a confidential report from the International Trade Commission to the U.S. Trade Representative, which contained classified information about American corporations…
Declassified Statement on Jonathan Pollard by Caspar W. Weinberger
Editor’s note: The following statement (original format [.pdf]) was submitted to the District Court of the District of Columbia on March 3, 1987, by the former secretary of defense one day before Judge Aubry E….
New Side-by-Side Gaza Flotilla Timeline Report Discredits Israeli Version of Events
A comprehensive report examining the minute-by-minute versions of the same events during the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla attack by Israel was released by two charity groups today. Contrasting passenger testimonies against official Israeli…
Israel’s right hand on Capitol Hill
Washington Square News – Ishan Talukdar AIPAC is a lobbying group dedicated to promoting Israeli interests to the American public as well as within the government. It does this by placing people…