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Subpoena for Rice

Condoleezza Rice

WASHINGTON: United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and some of President George W. Bush’s top foreign policy advisers must testify about their conversations with pro-Israel lobbyists, a Federal judge ruled in a trial over the misuse of classified information. The two lobbyists, who are accused of passing U.S. secrets to an Israeli official, argue that Ms. Rice and others can verify their claim that the United States regularly uses the American Israel Public Affairs Committee to send back-channel communications to Israel. Lobbyists Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman on Friday subpoenaed Ms. Rice, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, Deputy National Security Adviser Elliott Abrams and a dozen others to testify. Federal prosecutors unsuccessfully challenged the subpoenas. The lobbyists are accused of receiving classified information from a now-convicted Pentagon official and relaying it to an Israeli official. — AP

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