Photo: Keith Weissman during his arraignment in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., in August 2005. Kevin Wolf/Associated PressFrom New York Times:
WASHINGTON — A case that began four years ago with the tantalizing and volatile premise that officials of a major pro-Israel lobbying organization were illegally trafficking in sensitive national security information collapsed on Friday as prosecutors asked that all charges be withdrawn.
From the beginning, the case against the lobbyists for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee was highly unusual. The two, Steven J. Rosen and Keith Weissman, were charged under the World War I-era Espionage Act, accused of improperly providing to their colleagues, journalists and Israeli diplomats sensitive information they had acquired by speaking with American policy makers.
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My Comment: This stinks to high heaven. But the case is now dead .... and the true answers will never be known.
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