Steve Rosen (married five times) and Keith Weissman, the two employess of Israel Loby (AIPAC), were vindicated of espionage charges last year under pressure from Israeli embassy officials and the pro-Israel lobbying groups. Both Jewish officials were charged in 2004 with espionage for allegedly pressuring a Washington Post reporter into running classified US government information they had obtained about Islamic Republic.
Now, Steve Rosen, the former AIPAC foreign policy chief is suing his former employer for US$20 million for defamation before firing him. Jeff Stein had reported in the Washington Post (May 11, 2010) that Rosen had provided AIPAC’s attorneys with “about 180” internal documents proving that AIPAC officials routinely gathered inside information from government officials about US policy in the Middle East.
On November 20, 2010 – MJ Rosenberg wrote in Al-Jazeera:
“Ironically, the organization (AIPAC) spent US$4.5 million to save its former employee from imprisonment (and more money to save itself). In the end, the government dropped the case probably because it believed it would not prevail in court, especially with AIPAC’s buddies in Congress breathing down the Justice Department’s neck”.
Here is what AIPAC would like to be devoting its energies and financial resources to right now. One, making sure that President Obama is unable to pressure Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to freeze settlements and move to final status negotiations. And, two, boxing the president in so that he has no choice but to either strike Iran’s nuclear facilities or, more likely, let Israel do it. In fact, it is already planning its huge spring “policy conference,” slated to be devoted to warmongering over Iran followed by congressional passage of AIPAC -drafted Iran-must-be-stopped resolutions. These are immense undertakings and they take lots of money and lots of time. But, thanks to Rosen, AIPAC is spending $10mn of its donors’ money on legal fees. Its top people are working with lawyers virtually nonstop. And the whole place is in the grips of fear – fear that one former employee who has the goods on AIPAC will bring the whole house down,” wrote Rosenberg.
Now, here is the juicy part of the story. Rosen has claimed that he had witnessed AIPAC executive director Howard Kohr, his secretary Annette Franzen and half a dozen other officials watching pornographic material in the office. In his deposition, the former Israeli lobbyist also said he had heard from directors at AIPAC about their visits to prostitutes (much cheaper to travel all the way to Tel Aviv to visit city’s 280 brothels).
Tikum Olam called Rosen an ‘Israeli pimp’ and wrote: “There will be those among AIPAC supporter who will attempt to dissociate themselves from Rosen: he was fired when the organization discovered he’d disgraced its principles, etc. But this is nonsense. I do agree with Rosen in at least one major respect: he was doing his job precisely as AIPAC wanted him to. Howard Kohr knew every top secret document Rosen lifted from the defense department files and he knew what Rosen did with the information in those memos. He knew every reporter Rosen tempted with tidbits, he knew every Israeli embassy handler with whom Rosen met to further his and Israel’s intelligence harvesting agenda. In that sense, Rosen was AIPAC and AIPAC, Rosen. As Israel’s ass-lickingest Congress members like to say about the Israel-U.S. relationship: “there wasn’t any daylight between them” in this regard”.
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On November 23, 2010 – Internal Revenue Service received a 1,389 page filing demanding that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC’s) tax exempt status be retroactively revoked. The filing, submitted by the IRmep Center for Policy and Law Enforcement, spans nearly 60 years, from the moment AIPAC’s founder left the employment of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the present.
Two core charges are:
False Charitable Purpose. AIPAC has been investigated several times by the FBI and is currently in a civil suit over the ongoing acquisition and movement of U.S. government classified information. The filing argues that such activities reveal AIPAC does not function as a bona fide “social welfare” organization. Fraudulent Application for Tax Exempt Status. AIPAC’s original application for tax exempt status contains fraudulent representations and omissions. It fails to mention that AIPAC’s parent organization, the American Zionist Council (AZC) was shut down by a U.S. Department of Justice Foreign Agents Registration Act order in 1962. AIPAC incorporated six weeks later and applied for tax exempt status, but failed to reveal that the majority of its startup funding came from Israel, funneled through the AZC.
Members of the public, state charity watchdogs and the law enforcement community may download and review the complaint summary at: http://www.IRmep.org/IRSAIPAC.pdf For a DVD of the full IRS complaint and appendix, send an email and official surface mail address to info@irmep.org .
IRmep director Grant F. Smith and callers grilled IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman on National Public Radio January 1, 2010 over lax IRS enforcement toward some Israel-related nonprofits committing illegal acts overseas and violating U.S. tax laws. Shulman assured America that, “If a charity is breaking the tax law, is engaged in activities that they are not supposed to be engaged in, we certainly will go after them. Every year we pull 501(c)(3) charity status from a number of charities. We’ve got thousands of audits going on regarding charities, and so we don’t hesitate to administer the tax laws and make sure that people are following the rules.”
According to Smith, “By publicly filing this 13909 complaint with the IRS, we encourage concerned Americans and misled donors to monitor whether the IRS takes appropriate action. The clock is ticking.”
The Center for Policy and Law Enforcement is a unit of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington.