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The United States judge presiding over the AIPAC espionage trial
involving Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman, former senior staffers,
has ruled that the prosecution may subpoena top U.S. officials,
including Condoleezza Rice, Stephen Hadley, Richard Armitage, and top
neocons Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, and Elliott Abrams. It is
believed that their testimony, should they ever agree to testify,
would negate the contention that the information collected by Rosen
and Weissman and passed on to Israel would ever have endangered the
interests of the United States .

As Grant Smith of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy
points out in a recent email to his members and on his website, the
subpoenas heighten the probability that the case will be dismissed
altogether since the Bush administration has set a pattern of
refusing to let its officials testify at congressional hearings. As
Judge T.S. Ellis has already said, "The government's refusal to
comply with a subpoena in these circumstances may result in dismissal
or lesser sanctions."

Smith also believes that if Michael Mukasey is confirmed and sworn in
as Attorney General, his record suggests that he will move to have
the case abandoned.

The ruling has thus been depicted as a defeat for the prosecution.
See the article by Nathan Guttman in the Forward.

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