talkleft.com - 4/20/2009
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The explosive CQ story regarding an alleged telephone conversation between Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) and a "suspected Israeli agent" turns on the identity of the "suspected Israeli agent" Harman was is alleged to have conspired with. Josh Marshall thinks it was Power Rangers mogul Haim Saban , an ...
talkingpointsmemo.com - 4/20/2009
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talkingpointsmemo.com —
This story is so radioactive it's hard to
know which of fifty different directions to go with
it. In brief, Jeff Stein at CQ has a much, much more detailed account of the story, first reported in 2006, of Rep. Jane Harman getting wiretapped allegedly ...
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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 ...
emptywheel.firedoglake.com - 4/20/2009
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Rep. Harman Wiretap Scandal
The Democratic Daily —
... R. Gonzales, President 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, ...
Harman, Gonzo, and the NSA: Lots of Questions
Daily Kos —
... , "an Israeli widely suspected of being a spy." This is relevant, as as BTD argues, because Saban--as an American--would have been protected by his first amendment rights under the FISA law that allowed for the wiretaps. If it was Saban, was he targeted by the Bush administration because he was a major donor to Democrats? ...
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