Huffpo does some good stuff. Here's a nice piece by Robert Naiman probing the mind of Mrs Jane Harman (pointed out by a commenter and then Bruce Wolman):
The allegations suggest that Jane Harman believed that if the Israeli government decided that Harman should be the chair of the Intelligence Committee, and communicated that belief to Nancy Pelosi through the America Israel Public Affairs Committee, it was significantly more likely that Harman would become chair of the Intelligence Committee. And that she believed that difference in probability was significant enough to justify taking a significant risk.
That she believed that she was taking a real risk is indicated by the reports that at the end of the wiretapped phone call with the suspected Israeli agent, Harman said, "This conversation doesn't exist."
And if this was Harman's actual belief about how to make things happen in Congress, it's a very significant fact. After all, Jane Harman was in a position to know. She's got many years of experience in Washington political games. She's close to AIPAC. She's close to the Israeli government. She's close to Pelosi. She knows how these actors interact.
Maybe Jane is a HuffPost commenter?
I like the way our MSM cuts off our real news on the I-P situation and on the zionist control of our congress, exactly in the same way Israel cuts off the Palestinians water supply. They are consistent.
Floating the lie that the Israel lobby really isn't all that powerful at times when being a member of or subject to the lobby is a political liability has become one of those routine hasbara talking points, right along the lines of suggesting people who criticize Israel's murderous behavior are anti-semitic. But at other times when it is too their advantage, the Zionists will suggest the Israel lobby is the ultimate power (ie Peretz the other day suggesting that Cohen was demoted by the New York Times for writing critically of Israel.) The important characteristic to remember about most Zionists is that they have no principles other than ambition, power, money, and Israel. All other loyalties or ethics will go right out the window the second they become inconvenient to the Zionist. Phil Specter is just the latest example. A Zionist is the absolutely last person on earth you would ever want to be in a fox hole with unless you were a fellow Zionist. And right now, due to the craven and traitorous Washington political class and MSM, America is stuck in a fox hole with a bunch of back-stabbing Zionists.
Sorry, that was supposed to be Arlen Specter, the senator, not Phil Spector, the murderer — although I wouldn't be surprised if they are shirttail relatives.
Note Mr. Naiman's last sentence.
If now there is no investigation of this matter – if not a criminal investigation, how about a referral to the House ethics committee? – won't this outcome be perceived to validate the belief?
Yes it will. This presents an interesting perception management problem for the Israel-firsters. How does one conduct a whitewash investigation adequate enough to fob off the substantial number of new political observers suspicious but not yet convinced by the 'Lobby' thesis, and yet low-key enough to not add appreciably to their numbers? A very crude abstraction: do nothing and strive to minimize further press coverage … suspicious but unconvinced (in reality of the Lobby) voters become convinced, and previously uninformed (about the notion of the existence of the Lobby) voters remain uninformed. Have a public whitewash with exonerations handed out all around with extensive media coverage … suspicious but unconvinced voters are more likely to remain unconvinced, but many previously uninformed voters will become clued in to the debate about the Lobby, pre-conditioning the political battlefield for the inevitable next time a Lobby operative gets caught. Throw in the wild card of the AIPAC spy trial and we are at least ensured some small entertainment in return for our tax dollars that fund ethnic cleansing and colonization in the occupied Palestinian territories.
So what is CAMERA going to do with this analysis? Seek to muzzle Americans more? Would we accept this from pro-France or pro-Swedish lobbies? No. We'd tell them to take a hike.
"The allegations suggest that Jane Harman…" was higher than a kite on ziocaine. But maybe now she's having (as Woody Allen said) "a bum voyage"!
No informed person doubts that AIPAC has controlled 99% of US foreign policy on the ME. They also sway policy on any matter, not just the ME, that could possibily affect Israel or the Jews…our immigration policy, non taxable charitable contributions to Israel,religious institutional matters in the US and etc.. The Cuban exile groups have done much the same thing regarding our policy toward Cuba and immigration laws favoring Cubans over Haitians and others. The jewish lobby is just much more dangerous and seeks not just to control US ME policy but to control the US in every aspect concerning domestic or foreign jewish interest. The question still unanswered is what do we do about it?