It should come as no surprise Rice and other “officials” had “real-life dealings with the defendants in this case” since AIPAC essentially runs both the White House and Congress and has for some time.

In 1982, AIPAC “convinced” the Reagan administration and Congress to veto a French-supported UN resolution condemning the Israeli Invasion of Lebanon. A decade later, AIPAC president David Steiner resigned when after he was heard on tape boasting how the Bush Senior administration was in the hip pocket of Israel. Steiner had arranged for “almost a billion dollars in other goodies” for Israel and was “negotiating” with the up-and-coming Clinton administration over appointing a pro-Israeli Secretary of State.

But packing the Clinton administration with Zionists was not enough for AIPAC and the settlers in Israel—in 2000, the Straussian neocons, all Israel Firsters to a man and woman, managed to have the Supreme Court appoint their man and then, four years later, subvert the already badly damaged election system in America and fix Bush for a second term (not that it mattered—the other “candidate,” John Forbes “Kohn” Kerry, was a consummate insider determined to kill more Iraqis than Bush and heap even more cash on the tiny outlaw state of Israel).

Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman may serve as sacrificial lambs. However, the three Israeli diplomats who received the classified information stolen by Larry Franklin and handed over by Rosen and Weissman, will not be compelled to provide depositions to the court because as Judge T.S. Ellis II noted, he does not have the authority to do so. In other words, the case will stop short of implicating the criminal state of Israel.

The AIPAC case is a struggle between Zionists and Israel First traitors and the “national security” apparatus in the United States. Israel needs the United States military to fight its wars of conquest and destruction in the Middle East and the process is well underway with the Straussian neocons breathing the rarified air at the top of the dung heap with a commanding view of the White House, Congress, and the Pentagon. Condi will probably not be compelled to testify in the case against AIPAC. But even if she does, it will not change the subversive nature of AIPAC or scale back one iota the influence the Jabotinskyites have over our government and foreign policy.

In the old days, Americans ran traitors and snake oil salesmen out of town on a rail after tar and feathering them. Now they are too busy watching Rod Stewart nuzzle up with American Idol finalists on the mind control tube to bother. Meanwhile, the country, once a proud constitutional republic, is parceled out to criminals, foreign interests, and thieving transnational corporations and other flimflammers.

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From The Washington Post

Lawyer: Rice Allegedly Leaked Defense Info

By MATTHEW BARAKAT
The Associated Press
Saturday, April 22, 2006; 12:59 AM

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice leaked national defense information to a pro-Israel lobbyist in the same manner that landed a lower-level Pentagon official a 12-year prison sentence, the lobbyist's lawyer said Friday.

Prosecutors disputed the claim.

The allegations against Rice came as a federal judge granted a defense request to issue subpoenas sought by the defense for Rice and three other government officials in the trial of Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman. The two are former lobbyists with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee who are charged with receiving and disclosing national defense information.

Defense lawyers are asking a judge to dismiss the charges because, among other things, they believe it seeks to criminalize the type of backchannel exchanges between government officials, lobbyists and the press that are part and parcel of how Washington works.

During Friday's hearing, U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III said he is considering dismissing the government's entire case because the law used to prosecute Rosen and Weissman may be unconstitutionally vague and broad and infringe on freedom of speech.

Rosen's lawyer, Abbe Lowell, said the testimony of Rice and others is needed to show that some of the top officials in U.S. government approved of disclosing sensitive information to the defendants and that the leaks may have been authorized.

Prosecutors opposed the effort to depose Rice and the other officials. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin DiGregory also disputed Lowell's claim, saying, "She never gave national defense information to Mr. Rosen."

The issuance of subpoenas does not automatically require Rice or anybody else to testify or give a deposition. A recipient can seek to quash the subpoena.

Calls to the State Department seeking comment Friday evening were not immediately returned.

The judge also granted subpoenas for David Satterfield, deputy chief of the U.S. mission to Iraq; William Burns, U.S. ambassador to Russia and retired Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni.

"Each of these individuals have real-life dealings with the defendants in this case. They'll explain what they told Dr. Rosen in detail," Lowell said. "On day one, Secretary of State Rice tells him certain info and on day two one of the conspirators tells him the same thing or something less volatile."

The indictment against Rosen and Weissman alleges that three government officials leaked sensitive and sometimes classified national defense information to the two, who subsequently revealed what they learned to the press and to an Israeli government official.

One of the three government officials is former Pentagon official Lawrence A. Franklin, who pleaded guilty to providing classified defense information to Rosen and Weissman and was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison.

Franklin has said he was concerned that the United States was insufficiently concerned about the threat posed by Iran and hoped that leaking information might eventually provoke the National Security Council to take a different course of action.

The indictment against Rosen, of Silver Spring, Md., and Weissman, of Bethesda, Md., alleges that they conspired to obtain classified government reports on issues relevant to U.S. policy, including the al-Qaida terror network; the bombing of the Khobar Towers dormitory in Saudi Arabia, which killed 19 U.S. Air Force personnel; and U.S. policy in Iran.

Lowell said it is impossible for Rosen and Weissman to determine what is sensitive national defense information when they are receiving the information from government officials who presumably understand national security law and therefore would not improperly disclose national defense information.

The World War I-era law has never been used to prosecute lobbyists before.