So add that one to the DoJ's dismissal of the case against Ted Stevens; the DoJ's inaction on the cases brought by Rove & Co. against Don Siegelman, Wes Teel, Paul Minor, Oliver Diaz and several hundred other Democrats;
the DoJ's persistent prosecution of medical marijuana suppliers; and the DoJ's motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed by soldier Jeremy Hall, and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, against the DoD for his harassment, in Iraq, by Christianist officers. So it's Obama's AG at the helm. Big whoop. With Democrats like these in charge at DoJ, who needs Republicans? MCM Charges against Israeli lobbyists in espionage case to be dropped BY JOHN BYRNE Published: May 1, 2009 Updated 8 hours ago <http://rawstory.com/08/blog/2009/05/01/charges-against-israeli-lobbyists-to-dropped/>http://rawstory.com/08/blog/2009/05/01/charges-against-israeli-lobbyists-to-dropped/ The Justice Department will drop charges against two former lobbyists for the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, the Washington Post is set to report. "Federal prosecutors are dropping espionage-law charges against two former lobbyists for a pro-Israel advocacy group, law enforcement sources said this morning," according to a Post early edition of the piece. "Prosecutors said they will ask a judge to dismiss the case against Steven J. Rosen and Keith Weissman because a series of court decisions had made it unlikely they would win convictions," the Post's Jerry Markon writes. "In April 2005, AIPAC policy director Steven Rosen and AIPAC senior Iran analyst Keith Weissman were fired by AIPAC amid an FBI investigation into whether they passed classified U.S. information received from Franklin on to the government of Israel," Wikipedia notes. "They were later indicted for illegally conspiring to gather and disclose classified national security information to Israel" - the first non-government civilians charged under the 1917 espionage statute with "verbally receiving and transmitting national defense information." "Some lawyers and First Amendment advocates have said the case would criminalize the type of information exchange that is common among journalists, lobbyists and think-tank analysts," the Post notes. The move is not unexpected. A recent media leak suggested that prosecutors were considering abandoning the case. More at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/01/AR2009050101310.html?hpid=topnews --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Mark Crispin Miller's "News From Underground" newsgroup. To unsubscribe, send a blank email to [email protected] OR go to http://groups.google.com/group/newsfromunderground and click on the "Unsubscribe or change membership" link in the yellow bar at the top of the page, then click the "Unsubscribe" button on the next page. For more News From Underground, visit http://markcrispinmiller.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
