Highlights

The AIPAC Spy Trial: A Case of Prosecutus Interruptus

Sun

I’ve been covering the AIPAC spy case since CBS broke the story of US secrets stolen by top officials of Israel’s number one Washington lobbyist, way back in late summer of 2004

Franklin, AIPAC honcho Steven Rosen, and the Lobby’s number one Iran specialist, Keith Weissman, were indicted

Franklin pleaded guilty

promised to testify at the trial of his co-conspirators

That is, if the trial ever takes place

many times the trial has been delayed

The defense deftly delayed on every imaginable ground, and was indulged by a noticeably sympathetic judge, who forced the government to produce top secret information — the very information Israel’s AIPAC spy nest had gleaned from sympathizers inside our government

whole platoon of neoconservative writers and publicists who have been rallying to the defense

including Joel Mowbray, Commentary editor Gabriel Schoenfeld, and the inimitably laconic Charles Johnson