After a month of speculation, the
New York Times and the
Washington Post ran stories on 21 April 2005 that the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee had finally seen the light and fired two of its top officials as a result of an
FBI espionage investigation into its activities.� Though their lawyers were reported by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency declaring that the men had “not violated any
U.S. law or
AIPAC policy,” Steve Rosen,
AIPAC’s policy director, and Keith Weissman, senior analyst on Iran, were let go.�
Ha’aretz’s reporter compared the firings to removing a cancer and expected
AIPAC to emerge healthy and intact.�