Presentation at the National Summit to Reassess the U.S.-Israel "Special Relationship" on March 7, 2014 at the National Press Club. Grant F. Smith is the director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep) in Washington, DC. He is the author of two unofficial histories of AIPAC--America's Defense Line: The Justice Department's Battle to Register the Israel Lobby as Agents of a Foreign Government and Foreign Agents: AIPAC from the 1963 Fulbright Hearings to the 2005 Espionage Scandal, as well as the books Divert, Spy Trade, Deadly Dogma, Visa Denied and editor of the book Neocon Middle East Policy. Before joining IRmep, Smith was senior analyst and later program manager at Yankee Group Research, Inc. in Boston. Smith has a bachelor's degree in International Relations from the University of Minnesota and a Masters in International Management from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. Jeff Stein of The Washington Post designated Smith "a Washington D.C. author who has made a career out of writing critical books on Israeli spying and lobbying." Nathan Guttman of The Jewish Daily Forward recognizes Smith as leading a public effort to "call attention of the authorities to AIPAC's activity and demands public scrutiny of the group's legal status." John J. Mearsheimer, the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago claims "Grant Smith's new book is a major step forward in correcting that problem. He provides a fascinating--and disturbing--account of how I. L. Kenen laid the groundwork for AIPAC, the most powerful organization in the lobby."