Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Il pricesso del (XXI?) secolo?

Propongo la trasmissione in diretta.  E dovremmo prestargli anche
qualche giudice del pool di Milano, con un paio di nuove manette
tintinnanti in mano.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/03/washington/03aipac.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&ref=washington&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin
WASHINGTON -- From its headquarters near the Capitol, the American
Israel Public Affairs Committee, or Aipac, has for decades played an
important though informal role in the formation of the United States
government's Middle East policy.
As part of Aipac's mission to lobby the government on behalf of
Israel, its officials assiduously maintain contact with senior
policymakers, lawmakers, diplomats and journalists. Those
conversations are typical of the unseen world of information trading
in Washington, where people customarily and insistently ask each
other, "So, what are you hearing?"
But a trial scheduled for late April in federal court in Alexandria,
Va., threatens to expose and upend that system. Moreover, the case
comes with issues of enormous sensitivity and emotion, notably the
nature and extent of the ways American Jewish supporters of Israel try
to influence the United States government.
Two former senior analysts for Aipac, Steven J. Rosen and Keith
Weissman, are charged with violating the World War I-era Espionage Act
when they told colleagues, journalists and Israeli Embassy officials
information about Iran and Iraq they had learned from talking to high-
level United States policymakers.
Unless the government suddenly backs down, the courtroom will become
the stage for an extraordinary parade of top officials being forced to
testify about some of the unseen ways American foreign policy is made.
Over the strong objections of the Justice Department, the judge in the
case ruled that the defense may call as witnesses Condoleezza Rice,
the secretary of state; Stephen J. Hadley, the White House national
security adviser; Elliot Abrams, a deputy national security adviser;
Richard L. Armitage, former deputy secretary of state; Paul D.
Wolfowitz, former deputy defense secretary; and a dozen other Bush
administration foreign policy officials.
The defense's goal is to demonstrate that the kind of conversations in
the indictment are an accepted, if not routine, way that American
policy on Israel and the Middle East has been formulated for years.
Mr. Rosen's lawyer, Abbe Lowell, said the case raised "strange and
troubling issues, notably the decision to target Aipac for common and
proper behavior that goes on in Washington every day."
Mr. Lowell and John Nassikas III, who represents Mr. Weissman, plan to
confront Ms. Rice and the other witnesses with explicit examples of
exchanges in which they provided similar sensitive information to
Aipac staff members as part of the regular back-channel world of
diplomacy.
Although Aipac has not been charged in the case, the trial, to be
heard by Judge T. S. Ellis III, will revolve around how the group,
renowned for its effectiveness in presenting Israel's case, exerts its
influence in Congress and, especially in recent years, on the
executive branch.
For Aipac and to some extent the larger pro-Israel community in the
United States, the charges against Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weissman could
raise what they regard as an unfair, even toxic question about whether
some American Jews hold a loyalty to Israel that matches or exceeds
their loyalty to the United States.
The trial will also take place only months after the eruption of an
intense public debate about the American Jewish supporters of Israel
that was occasioned by the publication of an article and book, "The
Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy." The authors, John J.
Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of
Harvard University, argue that the pro-Israel lobby successfully
suppresses legitimate criticism of Israel and uses its influence to
distort the public debate about Middle East policy.
Their views produced a ferocious counterattack in magazines and
scholarly journals in which both their facts and conclusions were
challenged.
The trial will as well be shadowed by the case of Jonathan Pollard, a
civilian analyst for the Navy who was sentenced to life in prison in
1985 for spying on behalf of Israel. There is no question that the
charges against Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weissman are vastly different than
the actions of Mr. Pollard, who knowingly acted as a spy by stealing
sensitive documents and passing them covertly to Israeli agents.
The emotional resonance of his case continues, however, because it
directly raised the notion of dual loyalty and because his supporters
think he has been denied parole to satisfy a national security
community that was deeply angered over Israel's spying on the United
States.
Avi Beker, who teaches what he calls "Jewish diplomacy" at the
University of Tel Aviv and Georgetown University, said that while the
two cases are greatly different, "they evoke a parallel psychological
effect" both among American Jews who have an enduring anxiety about
the dual loyalty charge and those who are suspicious of the Israel
lobby.
Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weissman each face one charge of conspiracy to
communicate national defense information, and Mr. Rosen faces an
additional charge of aiding and abetting the conspiracy.
Justice Department officials would not discuss the case. But at the
time of the indictment in 2005, Paul J. McNulty, then the chief
prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia, said, "Those not
authorized to receive classified information must resist the
temptation to acquire it, no matter what their motivation may be."
According to the indictment, the defendants received sensitive
information from at least three government sources that was passed on
to journalists and Israeli officials. One of the sources was Lawrence
A. Franklin, a Pentagon analyst who has pleaded guilty to passing on
sensitive information to a journalist and an Israeli diplomat. Mr.
Franklin has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison.
After Mr. Franklin was arrested in 2004, he became a cooperating
witness for the government and, while wearing a wire, met with Mr.
Weissman and told him that Iran had learned that Israeli agents were
in northern Iraq. Mr. Weissman, according to the indictment, told Mr.
Rosen, and they both relayed that information to an Israeli diplomat
and intelligence officer and an unnamed Washington Post reporter later
identified as Glenn Kessler.
The other two sources of information received by Mr. Rosen and Mr.
Weissman are identified in the indictment only as Government
Official-1 and Government Official-2. Kenneth Pollack, who was the
National Security Council specialist on the Persian Gulf, said in an
interview that he thought he was Government Official-1 because on Dec.
12, 2000, he had had lunch with Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weissman.
Mr. Pollack, who is no longer with the government, said that he told
government investigators, "I never revealed any classified information
to Rosen and Weissman, and I never revealed any information that would
be harmful to the security or interests of the United States."
The indictment also charges that Mr. Rosen received information in
January 2002 from Government Official-2, who has been identified by
people involved in the case as David M. Satterfield, who has since
been promoted to the post of the State Department's senior adviser on
Iraq. A spokesman for Mr. Satterfield would not comment.
Mr. Lowell, the defense lawyer, said there had been no explanation as
to why neither Mr. Pollack nor Mr. Satterfield seemed to be in any
legal jeopardy for imparting information to Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weissman
that became part of the charges against them when they passed that
information on to others.
Aipac, which spends nearly $2 million annually in lobbying, according
to public filings, has worked to distance itself from the defendants.
Aipac dismissed them in early 2004 after federal prosecutors in
Virginia played part of surreptitiously recorded conversations for
Nathan Lewin, a veteran Washington lawyer representing Aipac. The
tapes were of conversations in which Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weissman passed
on information about the Middle East they had received from government
officials to Mr. Kessler at The Washington Post.
Mr. Lewin, who has had a long history as a trusted counsel for various
Jewish organizations, traveled back to Aipac's headquarters near
Capitol Hill from Alexandria that day and advised the group to fire
the men.
The Aipac spokesman on the Rosen-Weissman matter, Patrick Dorton, said
at the time that the two men were dismissed because their behavior
"did not comport with standards that Aipac expects of its employees."
He said recently that Aipac still held that view of their behavior.
Mr. Lewin would not discuss what he heard that day. But others
familiar with the case said the defendants' boastful tone, which may
have been used to suggest that their knowledge reflected their great
influence within the administration, made the conversations
potentially embarrassing.

 level United States policymakers.
fottuti giudici antisemiti, sono ebrei eroici che sostengono la loro
patria. Israel first! E chi lo nega è un negazionista.

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Di dogmi non si parlaaa!
Giano 

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Guarda che la tua ironia e' gia' stato superata dalla realta':
Quando Rosen e Weissman sono stati arrestati, la Anti-Defamation
league (quei simpatici combattenti contro l'Antisemitismo sempre e
ovunque che hanno dato un premio a Berlusconi, dopo i suoi commenti su
Mussolini)
chiese che Bush investigasse e punisse senza pieta'....  l'ufficiale
dell'FBI
che ha parlato delle indagini ai media.
http://www.dailyalert.org/archive/2004-09/2004-09-01.html
ADL Seeks Investigation of "Malicious Leak" - Nathan Gutman and Shlomo
Shamir
The Anti-Defamation League has called on the Bush administration to
immediately appoint a special counsel to investigate the leaks to the
American media regarding suspicions of an alleged Israeli "mole" in
the Pentagon. "There was a malicious and targeted leak that is more
damaging than the actual allegations of Israeli spying - allegations
that in all likelihood are baseless," Abraham Foxman, the national
director of the ADL, told Ha'aretz.
    "The ADL will demand appointing a commission of inquiry to make
every effort in identifying which official or officials are behind the
leak," said Foxman. "Someone in the hierarchy is trying to ruin
relations between Israel and the administration and between Israel and
the Jewish community....We cannot accept a situation where the
identity of the person or persons responsible for the leak remains
anonymous and no one takes responsibility for this foolish act." He
noted that all the allegations raised in the last few years of spying
by Israel against the U.S. were revealed to be lies. (Ha'aretz)

 Mussolini)
ma che c'entra Mussolini? Berlusconi era prono ai voleri del migliore
alleato di Israele? E quindi dov'è il problema? Poteva pure dire che
gli ebrei italiani andavano a fare le cure dimagranti nei lager e i
morti sono stati causati da una sauna difettosa, l'ADL l'avrebbe
premiato lo stesso...