On the day after he helped sink Chas Freeman, and on the day the Washington Post ran an editorial calling for the Justice Department to drop the case against him, it has also come to light that Steven J. Rosen is suing his former employer. The JTA is reporting that on March 2 Rosen filed a civil action against AIPAC for $21 million in the District of Columbia Superior Court for defamation of character.
I don't know if this is just a bald attempt to score a payday without having to go to court, but Rosen is already leaking some the tasty bits that would definitely make headlines if this case sees the light of day. In a response to the charge that he "did not comport with [AIPAC's] standards," Rosen asserts in the filing:
"To be effective, organizations engaged in advocacy in the field of
foreign policy need to have earlier and more detailed information about
policy developments inside the government and diplomatic issues with
other countries than is normally available to or needed by the wider
public," the complaint says. "Agencies of the government sometimes
choose to provide such additional information about policy and
diplomatic issues to these outside interest groups in order to win
support for what they are doing among important domestic constituencies
and to send messages to select target audiences.”
That doesn't exactly explain why Rosen then allegedly then passed that information onto the Israeli government (an international constituency maybe?), but I'm sure he has a reason. At this point I wouldn't bet against him.
