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~ouncil staffunder President Bill Clin'!
\;;Ion. Merward, Rosen allegedly ~lked to
a reporter about then-classified US stratcountries
in a ~ariety ofspheres froni mis- egy options against Iraq. In January 2002,
sHe defense to homeland security._ The aid Rosen metwith David Satterfield, a senior
package for Israel tends to be the engine State Department Middle East official,
thatgets the whole US foreign-aid budget about the sharing ofintelligence between
through Congress.
t,he United States and Israel following the
While nonpartisan and not direcd¥ in- Karine A episode, in which the Israelis
volvedinpoliticalcampaigns,AIPACkeeps seized a large Palestinian arms shipment~.
its !llembership ofmore than 100,000 ap- Theepisode damaged the US relationship
prised ofcongressional votes importantto' with Yasser Ararat. Thegovernmentalleges
Israel. This kind ofscrutiny can have an that, in a memo to other AIPAC staffers,
intimidating effecton lawmakers because Rosen included classified information he
it has the potential to influence where had picked up.
AIPAC members send their campaign
contributions. Critics have contended that The lobbyists' co·ntacts with Lawrence
~PACshould be required to register as a Franklin developed in 2002 when the de...
political:'actioncOf!lmittee. Butneither the fense analyst joined the Pentagon's newl¥
courts nor the Federal Election Commission
has forced the issue•.
Douglas Feith..
formed Office ofSpecial Plans under
Other detractors contend that because Rosen had been watching with growing
it lobbies for aid and policies that benefit alarm the signs thatTehran's cleric-domi-,
> Israel, AIPAC ought to register ,vith the nated regime was seeking to develop a
Jus~ceDepartment as a foreign agc:nt. But nuclear weapon, compounding thedanger
unlike organizations and firms that represent
foreign interestS and governments,
posed by Iran'~supportfor terrorist and
AIP~Cdoesn't get money from and is not
contractually l.inJ