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<p>That AIPAC case <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/01/AR2009050101310.html?hpid=topnews">gets tossed</a> and Goldblog <a href="http://jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/05/the_end_of_the_ridiculous_aipa.php">applauds</a>. Jamie Kirchick <a href="http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2009/05/01/will-steve-rosen-s-slanderers-apologize.aspx">wants</a> me to apologize. Since I merely reported the fact that Rosen was facing a trial, I see no reason to. I tend to agree with <a href="http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/05/01/help-me-shonda/">Ackerman</a> and <a href="http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/03/bushs-attacks-on-press-freedoms.html">Greenwald</a> that this was an ugly legal precedent, whatever one might think of AIPAC. But that doesn&#39;t make Rosen a savory character or his obsessive attacks on diversity of opinion in American government to be helpful to the republic. </p>
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