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Friday, March 24, 2006
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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U.S. opposes depositions in AIPAC case
The U.S. government opposes allowing testimony from Israeli officials at the classified information trial of two former AIPAC staffers.
Lawyers for Steven Rosen, the pro-Israel lobby’s former foreign policy director, and Keith Weissman, its former Iran analyst, asked the court in a motion to be considered Friday to allow three Israeli diplomats to be deposed in the case. The defense wants the Israeli depositions because they will assert that Rosen and Weissman never acted as Israeli agents.
The government opposes the depositions as “irrelevant” because it’s not alleging that Rosen and Weissman acted as Israeli agents, but simply that they conspired to receive and transmit classified information.
[from March 6, 2006]
Boehner says he won’t let anti-Israel laws through
The new Republican majority leader in the U.S. House of Representatives said he would never allow anti-Israel legislation come to the floor.
“As the new House majority leader, I can assure you that under my leadership, legislation that is in any way perceived as anti-Israel will not be considered in the House of Representatives,” Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) told the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference, to thunderous applause.
Boehner’s address Monday to 5,000 activists at the AIPAC conference in Washington was his first major foreign policy speech since his fellow Republican legislators elected him on Feb. 3. Boehner was elected after Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas) stepped down in the wake of his indictment on charges related to campaign fund-raising.
DeLay was known as a leading supporter of Israel in Congress.
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