On March 2, 2009 Steven J. Rosen filed a civil lawsuit in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia accusing his former employer, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, its directors, and an outside public relations firm of libel and slander. Rosen, AIPAC's former foreign policy chief, is seeking damages of $5 million from AIPAC and punitive damages of $500,000 each from former board members. Rosen's lawsuit seeks $21 million in total damages for statements he claims AIPAC made that were "knowingly false and defamatory and issued in reckless disregard for the harm to Mr. Rosen." The civil suit is related to the 2005 criminal indictment of AIPAC officials Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman along with Department of Defense employee Colonel Lawrence Franklin under the Espionage Act.
A who's who of AIPAC officials and Neo-con operators . . .
PLAINTIFF STEVEN J. ROSEN'S WITNESS LIST Plaintiff Steven 1. Rosen, through counsel, and pursuant to this Court's Order submits the following list of witnesses who may be called to testify at trial:
1. Plaintiff Steven 1. Rosen
2. Howard Kohr
3. Melvin Dow
4. Bernice Manocherian
5. Howard Friedman
6. Lawrence Weinberg
7. Robert Asher
8. Edward Levy, Jr.
9. Lionel Kaplan
10. Timothy Wuliger
11. Amy Rothschild Friedkin
12. Patrick Dorton
13. Richard Fishman
14. Phillip Friedman
15. Lawrence Franklin
16. Keith Weissman
17. Nathan Lewin
18. Abbe Lowell
19. Rene Rothstein
20. Marvin Feuer
21. Douglas Bloomfield
22. Morris Amitay
23. Thomas Dine
24. Neal Sher
25. Elliott Abrams
26. John Bolton
27. Martin Indyk
28. Robert Satloff
29. Newton Becker
30. David Satterfield
31. Kenneth Pollack
32. Laura Lester
33. John N. Nassikas
34. Annette Franzen
36. Morris Edeson
37. Ester Kurz
38. Malcolm Hoenlein
39. Abraham Foxman
40. Charles Perkins
41. Raphael Danziger
42. Alyza Lewin
43. Barbara Schubert
44. Jane Flax
45. Alan Platt
46. Paul Rovinsky
47. Barry Schochet
48. Robert Dean
In addition, plaintiff may also call to testify at trial employees or representatives of AIPAC, present or former, not yet identified as having information related to this case.