Top prosecutor in AIPAC case quits

Published: 02/28/2008

The top prosecutor in the case against two former AIPAC staffers is quitting.

Less than two months before the trial date Kevin DiGregory, an assistant U.S. attorney in Virginia's Eastern District, is joining the private intellectual property firm Manatt, Phelps and Phillips starting Monday.

DiGregory has led the classified information case against Steve Rosen, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's former foreign policy chief, and Keith Weissman, its former Iran analyst, since they were indicted in August 2005.

Prosecutors based the case on a never-used 1917 statute criminalizing not just the leaking but the receipt of classified information. In filings and public hearings over the years, the presiding federal judge, T.S. Ellis III, has increasingly suggested that the prosecution's case is flimsy and constitutionally fallible.

After a series of delays and postponements, the trial is now slated to start April 29.

let me ask this

[artifex2004]

Does the statute criminalize the receipt if the party is unknowing of the fact beforehand that it's classified?

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[Jeremiah Cornelius]

Good question.

I don't know. But the truth of this is - no matter how it comes out in court - that these guys were working for the Israeli state, contrary to or disregarding the interest of the US state.

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[artifex2004]

Never mind. I thought you had read it, based on what I thought was your summary of the situation, instead of a copy&paste.

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[Jeremiah Cornelius]

Getting good unfiltered info on this case and its legalities is very hard. News here is filtered through rabid Zionists, and virulent anti-Semites.

This is from JTA - they are a propaganda organ for Israeli interests.

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[artifex2004]

News here is filtered through rabid Zionists, and virulent anti-Semites.

I guess all the people in the middle have been bombed out or shot?

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[Jeremiah Cornelius]

No.

But the Zionist slant on the US/UK media is certainly stronger than in the Israeli media!

Anti-semites pick up the contrary - and are strengthened by the obvious bias.