Do we have a scandal that the MSM can't ignore?

David Corn thinks we might.

The Scandal:

The FBI has twice raided the offices of the influential pro-Israeli lobby and subpoenaed AIPAC officials. The feds are apparently looking at whether AIPAC officials passed classified information obtained from Bush administration officials to Israel. If true, this could be a rather explosive scandal.

The MSM has been virtually mum on this two year old investigation (Corn gives this example of the low key coverage) but it may get so hot soon that they will have to report it. Corn refers us to a report by David Ignatius last month :

What adds a sharp edge to the Bush II ideological debate [between neocons and so-called "realists"] is the fact that the FBI is continuing an investigation of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, which, like the neoconservatives, is strongly supportive of Israel. The investigation appears to have touched some prominent neoconservatives who are friendly toward AIPAC. Journalist Edwin Black discussed the fallout in a Dec. 31 article in the Forward newspaper, headlined "Spat Erupts Between Neocons, Intelligence Community." He described an apparent effort by the FBI to use the Pentagon official whose contacts with AIPAC triggered the investigation, Larry Franklin, in an unsuccessful "sting" operation to draw [neocon leader Richard] Perle into passing information to the neocons' favorite Iraqi leader, Ahmed Chalabi.

The FBI investigation has received surprisingly little publicity in the mainstream press, but it continues to rumble along. A prominent former government official with access to highly classified information told me this week that he was interviewed in late January by two FBI agents and quizzed about his luncheon meetings with Steve Rosen, AIPAC's director of foreign policy issues. He said he told the agents that he had never given Rosen classified information and that Rosen had never asked for it. The FBI investigation seemed, to this former official, to be largely a "fishing expedition."

...Meanwhile, I'm told that more than a half-dozen officials in the Bush administration who are apparently suspected of leaking classified information to AIPAC have had to retain defense lawyers.

And Corn adds the following:

Six Bushies on the run? That sounds like major news. But no details have leaked out. So let me contribute in my own small way. A reliable source of mine reports that he recently chatted with one of the principle figures in the investigation and that this fellow said the AIPAC scandal was about to "blow up," meaning there would be new, noteworthy developments that presumably would generate headlines. The person talking to my source was in a position to know and in a position to hope for the opposite. Consequently, I would assign a fair degree of confidence to this person's prediction. If that comes to pass, perhaps the Washington media will finally get around to providing more thorough and penetrating coverage of this potential scandal.

Every little hint of a scandal was all over the front page during the Clinton administration but it may take high ranking officials being marched off to jail before Bush scandals make the paper at all. The fact that those involved are worried may give us some hope that the shit may finally hit the fan.