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Answers Sought in Ex-AIPAC Staffers' Case


[JTA] U.S. Jewish leaders want answers as to why two former AIPAC officials were targeted for a federal investigation. Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of President of Major American Jewish Organizations, questioned "the justification" for the case and the decision to bring charges under a law that had barely been used in more than 90 years. "You don't want to reopen the whole case, but you have to look at the damage that was done," Hoenlein said. Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, said information revealed in the pre-trial process has "raised grave concerns that a serious injustice and abuse of power was involved in this case."
2009-05-04 06:00:00
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