briefingroom.thehill.com - 4/20/2009
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Markos Moulitsas, the founder of the influential liberal blog Daily Kos, called on Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) to resign after having been reportedly agreeing to lobby the Justice Department on behalf of the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
Harman had reportedly told AIPAC she ...
cqpolitics.com - 4/20/2009
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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 ...
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Sources: Wiretap Recorded Rep. Harman Promising to ...
theplumline.whorunsgov.com - 4/20/2009
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theplumline.whorunsgov.com —
A New York Times spokesperson is denying that
Dem Rep Jane Harman had any role in persuading
Times editor Bill Keller to hold its big warrantless wiretapping expose until after the 2004 elections, a controversial decision that may have altered the ...
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New York Times Exec Editor Denies Harman Helped Persuade ...
balloon-juice.com - 4/20/2009
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balloon-juice.com —
No one could have predicted that Jane Harman
would get caught on tape promising favors to AIPAC
: Harman was recorded saying she would “waddle into” the AIPAC case “if you think it’ll make a difference,” according ...
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The wages of wiretapping
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Rep. Harman Wiretap Scandal
The Democratic Daily —
... Bush’s top counsel and then attorney general, who intervened to stop the Harman probe.”
The blogosphere is abuzz with this story today and as Josh Marshall said earlier, “it’s hard to know which of fifty different directions to go with it.” That said, here’s a look at some of the directions this story is going in on both sides of the aisle in the blogosphere: The Atlantic Politics Channel, TalkLeft, The Hill’s Blog Briefing Room, The Plum Line ...
Secrecy Expert: Harman Leakers Likely Committed Felony
TPMMuckraker —
Did the people -- whoever they may be -- who leaked details about Rep. Jane Harman's wiretapped conversation with a suspected Israeli agent, break the law?
The law quite clearly prohibits the unauthorized disclosure of classified information "concerning the communication intelligence activities of the United States or any foreign government." And Steven Aftergood, the director of the Project on Government Secrecy, confirmed to TPMmuckraker: "It seems crystal clear that if this was a FISA wiretap," as appears to be the case, "then whoever disclosed it committed a felony." Aftergood explained that under FISA, the communications of ...
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thecable.foreignpolicy.com 4/29/2009 — Rep. Jane Harman has hired lawyer Lanny Davis , a former special counsel to President Bill Clinton during the Lewinsky affair, as a media advisor, The Cable has learned. The enlisting of the heavyweight help is the latest sign that the California ...
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thehill.com 4/28/2009 — Anti-war forces and liberal bloggers have despised Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) for years, and now they smell blood in the water. Harman has taken plenty of heat from her left flank over the years for supporting the Iraq war and President Bush’s ...
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boomantribune.com 4/20/2009 — Jane Harman represents California's 36th District, which includes the famously liberal Venice Beach and the infamously rough Torrance. It is not a swing district. Obama carried it with 64% of the vote, and Harman was just reelected with 69% of the ...
Did Goss Target Harman?
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com 4/28/2009 — In our last post on the Jane-Harman/AIPAC story, we noted growing evidence that Bush administration officials worked aggressively to prevent Congress from learning about Harman's wiretapped conversation with that suspected Israeli agent. But Ron ...
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