motherjones.com - 4/22/2009
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If you had been falsely accused of doing something outrageous, wouldn't you declare you had done no such thing?
Everyone is entitled to a presumption of innocence--at least in a courtroom--but it is certainly suspicious that former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has not denied the most ...
talkingpointsmemo.com - 4/20/2009
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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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tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 4/21/2009
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Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) just appeared on MSNBC
to give a guns blazing denial of the allegations...
in CQ 's explosive report from yesterday. The congresswoman, speaking to Andrea Mitchell, reiterated her claim that she didn't intervene with anyone ...
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Harman: "If There Are Tapes Out There, Bring It On!"
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 4/21/2009
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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. ...
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The Harman-AIPAC Story: A Timeline
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Talking Harman, AIPAC, Wiretaps, and Gonzales on "Hardball"
David Corn —
... tale--because it takes a fair bit of time just to explain why it involves a possible double quid pro quo. (Harman allegedly offering--during a conversation intercepted by the NSA--to use her influence to reduce espionage-related charges for two AIPAC officials, and a suspected Israeli agent, in return, vowing to help her become House intelligence chair by arranging for a mega-donor to withhold campaign funds from Rep. Nancy Pelosi, and then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales blocking a preliminary FBI probe of Harman because Harman, a California Democrat, ...
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