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.
