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static.cqpolitics.com - 4/21/2009

Sources: Wiretap Recorded Rep. Harman Promising to Intervene for AIPAC

— static.cqpolitics.com — 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 reduce espionage-related charges against two ... (more) Sources: Wiretap Recorded Rep. Harman Promising to ...

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salon.com - 4/21/2009

Jane Harman: Angry, partisan, civil liberties extremist - Glenn Greenwald

— salon.com — Blue Dog Rep. Jane Harman -- once the most vigorous Democratic cheerleader of Bush's NSA warrantless eavesdropping... program -- is rip-roarin' angry today. Apparently, her private conversations were eavesdropped on by the U.S. Government ! This is a ... (more) Jane Harman: Angry, partisan, civil liberties extremist ...

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npr.org - 4/21/2009

Harman 'Outraged' Over Alleged Wiretapping

— npr.org — All Things Considered , April 21, 2009 This week, Congressional Quarterly and later The New York Times... reported that the National Security Agency had recorded a telephone conversation between Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) and someone who was seeking ... (more) Harman 'Outraged' Over Alleged Wiretapping

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Harman: "Bring It On"
Talking Points Memo — ... In a MSNBC appearance moments ago, Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) gave a strong denial that she in any way intervened in the AIPAC case or sought to make a deal to intervene in return for support for her becoming chair of the intel committee. ...

Harman defiant
Political Animal — ... , it seemed Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) would be on the defensive. With that in mind, it was interesting to see her strike a defiant note this afternoon on MSNBC. The congresswoman, speaking to Andrea Mitchell, reiterated her claim that she didn't intervene with anyone -- not the Justice Department, or the White House -- in the AIPAC case. And she renewed her call for DOJ to disclose all the material associated with the investigation into her that, according to CQ's report, Alberto Gonzales helped stymie. "If there are tapes out there, bring it on!" she said, calling the ...

I wish I had time to look into this more thoroughly
Brilliant at Breakfast — ... getting ready to go to work. I've been reading a bit about this business with Rep. Jane Harman being wiretapped talking to some AIPAC guy who may or may not be an Israeli spy. This whole thing seems to have originated with this article at CQ Politics, and those who have the time in the morning to dig into such things because someone pays them to do so instead of braving New Jersey highways and spending the day as a cube rat have been on the case this week here, here, and here. But what really got my paranoid little brain going was ...

The Limitations of Thinking About Red and Blue America
TPMCafe — I want to respond to the points raised so far, but first I want to point out how irrelevant the red/blue divisions are to much of politics. Talking Points Memo, the host of this forum, is unusual in the blogosphere in focusing on news, rather than opinion. And the recent headlines on TPM are about potential torture prosecutions, wiretapping, Israeli spying, kickbacks. What do these news items have in common? None of them are about economic policy, which the evidence shows is the dominant factor in swinging votes and ...