Laura Rozen at ForeignPolicy.com has a story about how Sen. John Kerry is "shaking things up" as the new chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. One way is by bringing on a former journalist to look into how Iran is getting around international sanctions — something the leading pro-Israel lobby group, she reports, has been encouraging:
Kerry has hired Douglas Frantz, the former Los Angeles Times managing editor, to lead the committee’s investigative wing. The committee won’t specify what Frantz, who recently coauthored a book on Pakistani nuclear proliferator A.Q. Khan, plans to investigate. But sources note that he’s currently in Vienna, the seat of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Sources tell The Cable that the pro-Israel lobby group the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has encouraged Kerry and other members to probe Iran’s alleged sanctions busting, and how the country might bypass international sanctions to supply its nuclear program.
