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By Dylan Matthews
Being a pinko commie liberal (or something), I generally take a broad view of workers' right vis-à-vis their employers. And I'm not exactly a big fan of AIPAC. That being said, this is all kinds of absurd (via Ben Smith):
Steve Rosen, the former AIPAC foreign policy chief charged with receiving classified information, is suing his former employer for defamation, JTA has learned.…Recall that Rosen was fired after he was charged with espionage. I would certainly hope funneling classified documents to foreign government fails to "comport with standards that AIPAC expects of all its employees". But no. Rosen thinks firing people under federal indictment is completely unreasonable, so much so that we wants $21 million in damages.The core of the case is the repeated claims by Patrick Dorton, the outside spokesman for AIPAC named in the suit, that Rosen and Weissman were fired because they "did not comport with standards that AIPAC expects of all its employees.”
In case you're keeping track at home, here's Steve Rosen's theory of morality. Forcing a skilled civil servant out of office through a smear campaign: fair. Firing an indicted spy from a position working with the government he allegedly spied against: unfair. Glad we got that cleared up.
