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Hater Depot
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 Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 8:40 am Post subject: Congresswoman caught trading favors for Israeli spy |
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http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=hsnews-000003098436&cpage=1
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Rep. Jane Harman , the California Democrat with a longtime involvement in intelligence issues, was overheard on an NSA wiretap telling a suspected Israeli agent that she would lobby the Justice Department to reduce espionage-related charges against two officials of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, the most powerful pro-Israel organization in Washington.
Harman was recorded saying she would �waddle into� the AIPAC case �if you think it�ll make a difference,� according to two former senior national security officials familiar with the NSA transcript.
In exchange for Harman�s help, the sources said, the suspected Israeli agent pledged to help lobby Nancy Pelosi , D-Calif., then-House minority leader, to appoint Harman chair of the Intelligence Committee after the 2006 elections, which the Democrats were heavily favored to win.
Seemingly wary of what she had just agreed to, according to an official who read the NSA transcript, Harman hung up after saying, �This conversation doesn�t exist.�
Harman declined to discuss the wiretap allegations, instead issuing an angry denial through a spokesman. |
And then, according to the report, the DOJ under Gonzales essentially blackmailed Rep. Harman into supporting the warrantless wiretapping regime. Lovely stuff all around. |
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RJjr
Joined: 17 Aug 2006
Location: Turning on a Lamp
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| Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 2:05 pm Post subject: |
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I wonder why the Israeli agent even bothered lobbying Harman. She's an Israel Firster from the start.
Kudos to Jeff Stein for having the courage to print the article. I have little doubt that he's getting phone calls and e-mails from places like New York and Tel Aviv criticizing him as a self-loathing bigot, antisemite, etc. |
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nene
Joined: 11 Jun 2005
Location: Samcheok, Gangwon-do
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| Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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| I think the notable thing about this (and many stories coming out these days - torture memos, $15B quarterly profits following a $30B bailout, etc.) is that they're not the least surprising. Is it just that I've gotten more informed/become more cynical? Or have we collectively realized that the whole system is corrupt, so we expect this kind of shit? |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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| If J. Harman had that conversation on the telephone, then she does not possess the kind of judgment I want members of the intelligence committees to possess... |
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aquaponics08
Joined: 22 Dec 2008
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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Our allies, the jooz!  |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 7:40 am Post subject: |
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| Do you think other allies don't spy on us? Or that we don't spy on them? |
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