Former Aipac Staffer Looks for New Start

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"After four years of silence, a former pro-Israel lobbyist accused of passing classified information is trying to make his way back to center stage.

Steve Rosen, who was in charge of foreign policy at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, is putting himself in the public eye with a new blog, public speeches and articles on Middle East policy.

Once a member of Washington’s leading foreign policy pack, Rosen has been effectively shut out from most government and think tank circles after being indicted, together with his colleague Keith Weissman, under a rarely used clause in the Espionage Act. Yet as the legal proceedings are now stretching on with no end in sight, Rosen has begun raising his public profile.

Rosen, 66, is re-emerging, allied with the hawkish security-minded end of the foreign policy spectrum. While not taking sides on the political debate, Rosen has parked his blog on the Web site of the right-wing-leaning Middle East Forum and has published an article in the daily Internet publication the American Thinker, which was home to some of the strongest attacks against Barack Obama during the presidential campaign.

Rosen’s political moves are particularly notable because his fellow defendant, Weissman, has been doing his own work, as the Forward reported, in a more left-wing direction focusing on Palestinian needs."

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