Rep. Jane Harman Rails Against Wiretapping That Ensnared Her

Washington Post:

Rep. Jane Harman vowed yesterday to clear her name after the revelation of a wiretapped conversation in which she reportedly agreed to intervene in the federal investigation of two pro-Israeli lobbyists in exchange for help in getting a coveted congressional post.

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[EspressoAtNoon]

From Glenn Greenwald's blog:

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Jane Harman is a warrior on behalf of the Constitution and against abuse of power -- that's the same Jane Harman who tried to bully The New York Times out of writing about Bush's illegal spying program, who succeeded in pressuring them not to publish their story until after Bush was re-elected, who repeatedly proclaimed the program to be "legal and necessary" once it was revealed, who called the whistle-blowers "despicable", who went on Meet the Press and expressed receptiveness to a criminal investigation of The New York Times for publishing the story, who led the way in supporting the Fourth-Ame­ndment-gut­ting and safeguard-­destroying FISA Amendments Act of 2008, and who demanded that telecoms be retroactively immunized for breaking multiple laws by allowing government spying on their customers without warrants of any kind.

[...]

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/05/04/harman/index.html

[dhfsfc]

Jane just hired Lanny Davis to adviser her!

You need to talk to Martha Stewart to see how his advice worked out for her!

[EspressoAtNoon]

Fascinating. You can see here that Lanny Davis is another neo-con, AIPAC, mouthpiece:

Lanny Davis is the Treasurer for Joe Lieberman's Reuniting Our Country PAC.
Lanny Davis is a senior advisor and spokesman for The Israel Project.
The Israel Project (TIP) is a US-based 501(c)(3) non-profit, non-government organization with offices in the USA and Israel, which states that is "devoted to educating the press and the public about Israel while promoting security, freedom and peace".[1] by "proactively offering information about Israel and the Middle East to journalists throughout the world".[1] Its critics claim that it is an advocate for hardline, Israeli government viewpoints.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Project

Figures!

[EspressoAtNoon]

Dems need to vote this treasonous neo-con out of office. She's made it clear that she puts Israels' and her own best interests WAY ABOVE the interests of the US.

She advocated for torture and wiretaps. She's already been implicated due to her OWN wiretapping policy. Hah! It's clear that the country's real enemies are the ones who supposed to be protecting our security interests. These wiretaps should be levied against our politicians.

Shame on you, Jane Harman.

[Snuffleupagus]

No, shame on the entire Democratic party (and double shame on the vile Republicans) for their hypocrisy and lies on the big issue here.

The spy case against the two Israeli agents should have been a slam dunk. Judges allowed classified information to be used in court to benefit the two Israeli spies, but denied classified info to be used by the prosecution (our US government) for their arguments.
The case will be thrown out of court and our media will not give it any coverage.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=93232&sectionid=3510203

This week we have a massive AIPAC conference in which they will push for a new sanctions bill against their enemy Iran which may include blockade provisions.
This also is not being talked about, but count on the entire Democratic party to get on board with whatever AIPAC decides this week.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/rosnerBlog.jhtml?itemNo=836216&contrassID=25&subContrassID=0&sbSubContrassID=1&listSrc=Y&art=2#article836216

http://www.aipac.org/130.asp

Jane Harman is the tip of the iceberg. Her lies, her crocodile tears and her entanglements with Israel are typical of American politicians, not an exception.

[courtreporter]

gee, Jane .... if you weren't so hypocritical, you'd actually be funny! You voted for it: You got!!! That's what sleeping with the enemy does for ya -- you'll have to send Bush, et al. a Thank-You Note.

[gbrooks]

Hypocrite, liar and smarmy unpatriotic cretin.

And those are her best qualities.

Seriously, if we all convert to Judaism and join AIPAC, can we too get away with whatever we want in this country? She'll never be tried and even if she is voted out, she'll just have a cushy job elsewhere. What she did is borderline treason, us regular people would have had a swat team break our doors down and be hauled off in shackles.

[demandfortruth]

yeah what a fail. so she is mad at something that she went on national tv and trumpeted as "absolutely necessary to protect against terrorism.­" she's right. we just caught 3.

[felisa11]

so Harman is now complaining about something she supported. I guess he, i mean she didn't think it would bother her.

[sueno]

Harman's guilty as sin-

[bellemeade]

Poor Jane. Busted.

[Okieborn]

Rep. Harmon was caught with her hand in the proverbial cookie jar !!!
Where did the honesty go ??
Just say yes I did !!!!

[LeeCalif]

AIPAC agents and Harmon seeking to protect them instead of our country.

[feyangel]

She voted to allow this sort of wiretap. What-- if it "ensnares" someone else, it is okay-- but not if it catches her with her political pants down?

[NotYouAgain]

It's funny how she was more than willing to approve of extraordinary wire tapping of other citizens but when it comes to her, oh, my, this is outrageous, it's so unAmerican. Geez.

[olderwhitelady]

I live in Jane Harmon's district.
Someone ran against Harmon last election, but now I can't remember the name.
Someone, anyone needs to run.
I'll send you a check today.

[GlennInVenice]

Marcy Winograd ran against Jane. Marcy deserved our support and did not get very much of it I'm afraid. Marcy was against the war and wiretapping and torture and... So much so that to run against Marcy Jane had to pretend for a time that she was against these things as well. Unfortunately lazy Democrats voted for Jane since she was the incumbant and had the big D beside her name. We got what we deserved.

[riverhouse]

Ah, the old it-was-the­-tape-reco­rder's-fau­lt defense. Haven't seen that one in a while.

[Gidster]

Just like Blago in Illinois..­...

"When all of the tapes are played, you will see that this is taken out of context"

Yeah, the part where you said "I would be stupid to give this up for nothing",,,,, It did not work for him, it will not work for her!

She just needs to be reminded that she voted for "Warrant less" wiretapping of Americans! At least she had a court order and a warrant in her case!