From the Ryan Dawson's anti-Neocons site, this is said to be a photo from 2006 of Congresswoman Jane Harman and Bush Homeland Security boss Michael Chertoff, a former prosecutor, out for a jog. 
Anees of Jerusalem writes:
What's interesting about the Harman case to me is the mechanical difference in the pro-Israel roles of the two female players. Nancy Pelosi has always been vocal about her Israel love. Yet Harman's was a distinct loyalty role simply because she had influence over at the Republican White House. In the end they are both being played by the same lobby.
From a 2003 Salon piece, on how Pelosi chastised Howard Dean for simply calling for an "even-handed" approach to I/P:
[Howard] Dean's Israel troubles began at a Sept. 3 campaign event in Santa Fe, N.M. When it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he said that day, "It's not our place to take sides." Then, on Sept. 9, he told the Washington Post that America should be "evenhanded" in its approach to the region.
The media and the Democratic establishment reacted as if Dean had called Yasser Arafat a man of peace. On Sept. 10, 34 Democratic members of Congress, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, wrote Dean an open letter. "American foreign policy has been -- and must continue to be -- based on unequivocal support for Israel's right to exist and to be free from terror ..." they wrote. "It is unacceptable for the U.S. to be 'evenhanded' on these fundamental issues ... This is not a time to be sending mixed messages; on the contrary, in these difficult times we must reaffirm our unyielding commitment to Israel's survival and raise our voices against all forms of terrorism and incitement."
Dean was a quick learner and made up for past mistakes. In 2006 he actually called Iraq's Maliki an "anti-semite" for criticizing Israel's war on Lebanon.
Keep hammering away Phil. Many progressives are hesitant to criticize democrats like Pelosi. We will never break the lobby's control over congress if people like Pelosi are free from attack. Those of us who work for democrats in elections, should not give liberal democratic party zionists a break. We need not worry about the Republicans since they are even more tightly wed to Israel than are the democrats. There could be a few set backs, but in general I think there is a possibility that we can replace those pro-Israeli democrats with others that really do hold America's national interests first.
Trivial geography remark: isn't that Venice Beach?
I wonder what the conversation was about on that run..
How is it possible that the USA has allowed people with so obvious a devotion to another country to fill positions such as Sec of Homeland Security and Chair of House Intel C'tee?
Chertoff comes from a family of rabbis on his dad's side and his mother is rumoured to have been active in Mossad's early days – he is probably an Israeli citizen. The hi-fiving Israeli 'removalists' were quickly and quietly repatriated (with Alan Dershowitz's help) on his watch in charge of the DOJ criminal division – this while he insisted on holding over 700 people in detention for 'immigration irregularities' – none of whom were ever charged. And none of whom, I am willing to bet my left nut, were Israeli, or even Jewish.
Just noticed while slumming at HuffPo and Daily Beast that neither outlet has seen it's way clear to mentioning the Harman story at all – AT ALL.
These people are almost as Lobby-controlled as those idiots representating us in the 'free world' in Durban, walking out as if acting with an admirable moral autonomy, but really just following orders.
I don't know Glenn, how could the USA allow people with so obvious a devotion to another country – Ireland – fill positions such as Attorney General and Commander in Chief? (Didn't JFK, on his first visit to the Irish Republic as President, go to his grandfather's house and speak about his close attachments to Ireland? Wasn't there a contingent of the Irish Army that performed a close-order drill at the funeral of the Commander and Chief of the United States?)
Chertoff's mother was, briefly, a stewardess for El Al. That's it. There is no evidence that she worked for the Mossad, nor is there any that Chertoff is an Israeli citizen.
As for the "hi-fiving movers", (a) they were neither quickly repatriated (they remained in Federal custody under harsh conditions for nearly two months), nor were they (b) quietly repatriated. In fact, they have joined a class action suit with a number of the other 700 who were detained for immigration irregularities claiming damages as a result of their harsh incarceration.
I second Leila — Janie and Mikey's jogger's paradise in the photo is Venice, Kali.
Wouldn't it be a kick in the head if Chertoff were the 'Israeli agent' who phoned Harman to intervene with Justice on behalf of Rosen and Weissman? She insisted that it was an 'American citizen' who phoned her — yes, yes, it all fits.
Catching on from Jane's tart 'this conversation doesn't exist' sign-off, Chertoff grokked that their transaction would be better consummated on Venice Beach, where there was no possibility of being bugged. And we taxpayers paid for that transcontinental flight — LOL!
JES, your pro Zionist apologist stance only rings true if this were a perfect world – however it certainly has never been.
http://desertpeace.wordpress.com
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com
A lot of irregularities happened in regards to 9-11 that the Israel Lobby has demanded no one look at. We can question all day long why they might take such a position, but until pro-Israel neocon shills like Pelosi, Harmon, and Bacchus are all out of power……it won't amount to anything but talk.
Full uncensored public investigations are needed. After all we want to get to the bottom of this situation & prosecute those responsible, even if that means AIPAC defends itself in court. We like the rule of law.
http://whatreallyhappened.com/motherofallscandals.html
Glenn Greenwald hoists Jane Harman on her petard — yeehaw!
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/21/harman/index.html
if (rather, let me say when) these democrats are defeated, it is important that the reason for their defeat is also out there
@JES:: except the irish aren't subverting american democracy and co-opting irish americans in treason/espionage against the USA.
"except the irish aren't subverting american democracy and co-opting irish americans in treason/espionage against the USA."
Well said.
@ JES
RE: Equating Irish with Jewish devotion to another country.
The Israel Lobby is much more powerful and influential than Irish nationalists sympathies ever were in the USA. Neither Kennedy nor his regime were ever lock-step favoring the Irish Catholics,
and Kennedy in power showed beyond a doubt he didn't listen to the Pope when it came to governing the USA in the American interest. This despite the fact that people with Irish ancestry constitute the second largest ethnic group in the USA (after Germans, who like the Irish, have been discriminated against in USA history).
The protestants in Northern Ireland were not comparable to the Palestinians, but rather more so–to the Israelis.
Irish Catholic rebellion goes
back to the Potato Famine, when 1 million died, another million were forced to leave to avoid
starvation–not caused by the potato blight itself, but by the fact that the Brits and their
northern allies shipped the food overseas when it was desperately needed at home. The Irish
during the long colonial period were in every way second-class residents in their own land, at least as much, and at times more, than their Palestinian comparables.
Here's some comparisons as between "the Irish Troubles" and the I-P situation:
link to ceia-sc.org
At the World Economic Forum in New York, February 2002, “[US Senator Patrick] Leahy noted that two-thirds of US government aid goes to only two countries: Israel and Egypt. Much of the remaining third is used to promote US exports or to fight a war against drugs that could only be won by tackling drug abuse in the United States.”
link to globalissues.org
The aid to Egypt is completely conditional on Egypt playing nice with Israel.
Not in total dollars, but total proportional dollars, the USA is at the very bottom of the list
of those nations who give foreign aid–basically white western Christian industrialized nations and Japan.
Is there something the matter with this picture?
I suspect that there is not much difference between Rep.'s Pelosi and Harman except competence: the latter lost a power play and got caught by the feds. I'm guessing 'the phone conversation' was just a peek into one of many behind-the-scene run-of-the-mill power struggles in the United States Congress … this one just happening to take place between Israel-first American politicians and big-money political donors, and Israeli intelligence with the prize one of the most senior intelligence jobs in the the United States government, the Chair of the House Intelligence Committee.
I hope the FBI did some surveillance on Senator Feinstein on the Senate side. There is a reason that colonial-Zionist American politicians and the Lobby strive to obtain intelligence billets. Ask yourself what it might be.
except the irish aren't subverting american democracy and co-opting irish americans in treason/espionage against the USA.
And neither are the Jews or Israel! That was my point.
I love it. Say something even implying that the Irish (or another ethnic group with strong attachments to the Old Country) might be a tad prejudiced when it comes to setting US policy, and the entire board spouts off. Say something about "The Lobby" and it's all cheers.
Well, at the risk of being repetitive, let's just take a look at what actual Americans think about Israel (and not just the losers who hang around Mondoweiss and other forms):
http://www.gallup.com/poll/116308/Americans-Support-Israel-Unchanged-Gaza-Conflict.aspx
And, BTW nanuk, "treason" is a pretty serious charge. I suggest that you either be prepared to substantiate that or shut up!
Is easy to see the megaphonies in action, for those who don't know zionists subsist on their ability to skew the conversation with unfounded "facts", ad hominem attacks, screams of anti-semitism (eventhouh 90% of jews in israel are of asheknazi and NOT sephardic descent, so they aren't even semetic, talk about a misnomer!) they run this application called "megaphone" that alerts them of "anti-semetic" articles so they can come in and "even" the debate with their lies, if they spoke any truth whatsoever these scumbags wouldn't need their applications to alert them to come and lie on each and every article, their "truth" would stand on its own without anyone to forcefeed it to us.
Re: "except the irish aren't subverting american democracy " and co-opting irish americans in treason/espionage against the USA.
And neither are the Jews or Israel! That was my point."
You actually tried to make the opposite point for those familiar with modern history. You really wanna compare Irish Americans with Jewish Americans in terms of being selfless Americans?
LOL