The tail wagging the dog cont.

Being strongly pro-Israel is fine, I'm strongly pro-Israel. But I'm not too keen on Israel dictating foreign policy to us.

Two people asked a Pentagon official cooperating with prosecutors in an investigation into the American Israel Public Affairs Committee to fake his own death to avoid testifying against two pro-Israel lobbyists charged in the case, according to the Justice Department.

Pentagon analyst Lawrence Franklin pled guilty in October 2005 to participating in a conspiracy with AIPAC officials Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman to obtain and distribute classified information. The Justice Department dropped the case against Rosen and Weissman last month as a trial approached.

"Just prior to the entry of his guilty plea, Franklin was approached by two individuals who made a pitch to Franklin about faking his death by suicide and disappearing, thus thwarting any cooperation in the case against Rosen and Weissman," prosecutors wrote in a brief filed in connection with a motion to reduce the 12-year prison term Franklin was originally sentenced to.

If this had been a Muslim or Arab interest group, say even a made up one like Atta in Prague with Iraqi Colonel al-Mustard in the Conservatory or ACORN (bad touch, bad touch, Glenn!) imagine the hell there would be to pay?