I was rather disappointed by the Ha’Aretz piece on the AIPAC indictments that David mentions below. I realize it’s an opinion piece, but it seems very light on facts and very heavy on suspicion.
As best I can tell, the only real factual claim in the piece is that “strange questions” were being asked during the investigation. The piece doesn’t say who was asking the alleged strange questions, however, or two whom they were addressed. In addition, the two specific questions mentioned don’t sound to me like something an FBI agent would ask (especially the second question). David suggests that the asking of such questions wouldn’t surprise him because some anti-Semitic views are popular in “many ‘intellectual’ circles,” but I don’t think such circles are generally thought to include the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Finally, I know one of the prosecutors in the case, and in my experience he is a consummate professional. Kevin DiGregory (listed first in this press release) was a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division at the Justice Department when I was a Trial Attorney there; in layman’s terms, he was my boss’s boss. I worked with Kevin on a bunch of cases, and found him to be a man of tremendous integrity.
Of course, none of this rules out some kind of funny business somewhere along the line. But until we see real evidence of that, I’m not inclined to believe that the indictments are somehow improper.
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