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US Department of Justice Asked to Regulate AIPAC as a Foreign Agent of the Israeli Government

WASHINGTON, March 17 (PRNewswire-USNewswire) -- The US Department of Justice has been formally asked to begin regulating the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) as the foreign agent of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.  A 392 page legal filing presented by a four person IRmep delegation in a two hour meeting with top officials of the Internal Security Section substantiated the following case for AIPAC's immediate registration:

  1. AIPAC is a spinoff of an organization already ordered by the DOJ to register as an Israeli foreign agent.  In November of 1962 the American Zionist Council was ordered by the Attorney General to begin filing disclosures as an Israeli foreign agent under the 1938 Foreign Agents Registration Act.  http://www.IRmep.org/1962Order.pdf  Six weeks later, former AZC  employees incorporated the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in Washington, DC, taking over the AZC's lobbying activities.  http://www.IRmep.org/AIPAC.pdf  AIPAC did not register as a foreign agent.  
  2. AIPAC's founder Isaiah L. Kenen was the chief information officer for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs in New York and for a time duly registered in that role.  http://www.IRmep.org/Kenen.pdf The Justice Department ordered Kenen to personally re-register after he formally left the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs to head up private lobbying and publicity for the Israeli government at the nonprofit American Zionist Council.  Kenen never complied with the order. http://www.IRmep.org/order.pdf  
  3. Espionage related FBI investigations in 1984 and 2005 reveal AIPAC's ongoing stealth foreign agency activities http://www.irmep.org/ila/economy ...  

"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

by Oui on Fri Mar 19th, 2010 at 01:11:25 PM EST
Who is IRmep, and is this significant? In any case, it seems a bit too late; if they win, what stops AIPAC from lobbying as a corporation now?
by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Fri Mar 19th, 2010 at 01:41:20 PM EST
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Dennis Ross sidelined at State over his foreign agent status with Israel

Ross' problems within the Obama administration began when it was discovered that he failed to register as a foreign agent for the government of Israel in his capacity as the chairman of the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute (JPPPI) in Jerusalem. Unlike the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and WINEP, the JPPPI is run by the Jewish Agency, which is an organ of the Israeli government. Official statement

U.S. Interests vs. The Jewish State

Should Washington maneuver Israel into a box, Tel Aviv will collapse yet another coalition government. Or announce a resignation. That was Ben-Gurion's ruse in June 1963 when John F. Kennedy insisted on inspections to stop Israel's nuclear arms program. Ehud Olmert used the same negotiating tactic when it appeared that the Road Map could lead to a final status agreement. His well-timed resignation brought back Netanyahu.

 For anyone to assume or suggest that Israel is operating in good faith reflects a perilous misreading of history. What we witnessed at the U.N. is how warfare is waged in the Information Age. This was neither the behavior of a U.S. ally nor a nation deserving U.S. support, friendship, arms or even recognition. Any further appeasement of this extremist enclave and Obama can rightly be charged with breach of his oath of office to defend the U.S. from all enemies, both domestic and foreign.

"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

by Oui on Fri Mar 19th, 2010 at 03:33:09 PM EST
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I found the IRmep site myself, but it doesn't say much about what it is, or whether anyone I might have heard of is involved. What I was getting at was: is it a serious organization with a track record that suggests that their request will be taken seriously (before being rejected...) or is it just a publicity stunt?
by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Fri Mar 19th, 2010 at 05:56:48 PM EST
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