Boy does Jane Harman sound evasive and sketchy, in a superb interview by Robert Siegel:
[W]e'll see what I may or may not have said four years ago in
conversations with an advocacy group like AIPAC or any other groups
about the chairmanship of the intelligence committee or anything else.
It's totally proper for members of Congress to talk to advocacy groups
and our constituents; that's part of our job…
I'm saying that, No. 1, I don't know that there was a phone
conversation. If there was and it was intercepted, let's read exactly
what I said to whom. We don't know who that was either.
I can't recall with any specificity a conversation I may have had four
years ago. That is why I have asked Attorney General Holder to release
any transcripts that he has that involve wiretaps of me. And, by the
way, there's a question about whether they were legal, and there's
another question about whether other members of Congress, who also talk
regularly to advocacy groups and constituency groups, might have been
picked up and may be wiretapped even now or maybe I'm even wiretapped
now.
Oh. Then later she remembers:
I mean, the person I was talking to was an American citizen…. Well, I know that anyone I would have talked to about, you know, the
AIPAC prosecution would have been an American citizen. I didn't talk to
some foreigner about it.
Siegel then asks a wonderful question: "You never spoke to an Israeli? You never spoke to an Israeli about this?"
Well, I speak to Israelis from time to time. I just came back from a second trip to Israel in this calendar year.
Harman "I have to say I am outraged that I may have been wiretapped by my government in 2005 or 2006 while I was ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee."
Yet Harman defended the NSA's warrantless wiretaps?
Susie, I was going to mention the same thing.
What? Congresscritters thought they were above the (un)law?
I listened to that interview.LOL.SHE is stupid and guilty.I
She loves to talk.
I say the more the better…..
Isn't she a dummy. Well, next question, which Israelis have you talked to? And, about what? What did you learn on your recent trips to Israel? Did you happen to visit Gaza? Talk to even one Palestinian? On Lou Dobbs moments ago: " Harman, Feinstein, they're all crooks…"
Can we hope for somebody suggesting on TV they're not crooks only, but traitors?
Speaking of crooks, this whole episode reminds me of "Watergate", only on steroids. Cheney is the connection from there to this. This is Richard Milhouse Nixon's wet dream. Have the Bushies blackmailed their way through 2 administrations?
I meant two terms, not admins.
I can't wait until they release those tapes so I can see if I spoke to Harman on the phone and if I actually know her personally, which I may or may not, depending on what I hear on those tapes, presuming they exist, which I don't.
Justin Raimondo and I put our money on Naor Gilon as the Israeli agent. Don't know if we're right, but there's a helluva lot of reasons it could be him.
I'm about to write a Comment is Free article on this.
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2009/04/21/rep-harman-conspires-with-israeli-agent-to-aid-alleged-aipac-spies/
In Harman's worldview Israelis are not foreigners.
She's known on the hill as AIPAC's slut.