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tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 4/21/2009
The Harman-AIPAC Story: A Timeline
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CQ's blockbuster story , about a wiretap that picked up Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) discussing the AIPAC spying case with a "suspected Israeli agent", picks up on a sequence of complex events from several years ago, and involves several moving pieces. So we thought it would be worthwhile to put ...
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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theplumline.whorunsgov.com - 4/20/2009
New York Times Exec Editor Denies Harman Helped Persuade Him To Hold Wiretapping Story
— 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 ... (more) New York Times Exec Editor Denies Harman Helped Persuade ...

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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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Harman is more than a bad Democrat - She's a criminal
Newshoggers.com — ... but TPMMuckraker supplies a timeline that lays out the crimes of Jane Harman against the United States and the Democratic Party.  ...

Jane Harman-- Israeli Agent? Bush Shill?
DownWithTyranny! — ... TPM has put together a very detailed and revealing timeline of everything that happened in this scandal that could send Rep. Harman to prison. And the video of Stein on Countdown this evening certainly makes it all crystal clear: ...

Harman: Why Now?
Winds of Change.NET — So the media are all abuzz over a conversation my Congresswoman, Jane Harman, had regarding AIPAC in 2006. The events themselves are interesting - not fascinating, but interesting - as an example of the 'scratch my back and I'll scratch yours' politics that represents our government today. Only snippets have been released, so we don't know if they are edited to do maximum damage to Harman (I'd guess likely) or minimize the import of the conversation. Without getting into the substance of the AIPAC thing, it ...

Harman Wiretap Ties-In With NYT Failure To Expose Domestic Spying in 2004. Does the Times Have More Explaining To Do?
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Christine Bowman A Disturbing Picture Emerges If You Connect the Dots: Rep. Jane Harman's Israeli-Spy Wiretap Story Ties-in with NYT's More Than Year-Long Delay in Breaking the Warrantless Wiretap Domestic Spying Story. Maybe the details of the Jane Harman/AIPAC wiretapping story are too overwhelming for many political observers to wrap their heads around. Okay. TPM Muckraker and ...

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Representative Jane Harman was overheard on calls agreeing to seek favorable treatment from the Bush administration for two pro-Israel lobbyists investigated for espionage.
Rep. Jane Harman denies wiretap report — L.A. Times - Politics 4/21/2009
The congresswoman from Venice says she didn't lobby the Justice Department on an espionage case, as reported by Congressional Quarterly. > Rep. Jane Harman ...
Harman Wants Transcripts Released — WSJ.com: Politics And Policy 4/21/2009
Rep. Jane Harman asked the Justice Department to release transcripts of her recorded conversations involving two pro-Israeli lobbyists under investigation for espionage.
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Lawmaker Denies Effort for Lobbyists — NYT > Politics 4/22/2009
Representative Jane Harman said Tuesday that she had not contacted the White House or any other agency about an investigation of two pro-Israeli lobbyists.