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Ex-AIPAC staffers subpoena Rice, Hadley
Two former American Israel Public Affairs Committee staffers subpoenaed top Bush administration officials to testify at their trial.
Steve Rosen, AIPAC’s former foreign policy director, and Keith Weissman, its former Iran analyst, filed subpoenas last Friday for Condoleezza Rice, the U.S. secretary of state; Stephen Hadley, the national security adviser; Elliott Abrams, the deputy national security adviser; William Burns, William Burns, the State Department’s former top envoy to the Middle East; David Satterfield, Burns’ former deputy and the current deputy ambassador to Iraq; and a number of former officials.
The court later suppressed the names on the subpoenas, but JTA viewed a copy of the original docket with all the names.
At least one of the targeted witnesses said he has yet to receive a subpoena.
Rosen and Weissman are charged under a never-used statute in the espionage act that criminalizes the receipt and dissemination of classified information.
They plan to argue that the conversations at the center of the indictment were routine for AIPAC lobbyists and others. AIPAC fired the two men a year ago, saying their actions did not comport with AIPAC’s standards."
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