Interesting New Question About the Jane Harman Kerfuffle
Remember when Jane Harman and other pseudo-Democrats on Capitol Hill didn't give a flying damn supporting the Bushite warrantless surveillance of Americans?
Not that surveillance (with warrants) was conducted on them they suddenly have become defenders of the Constitution and privacy rights.
What a bunch of hypocrites!
Juan Cole at Informed Comment has an interesting take on that situation that brings up more questions about the pay to play, multi-millionaires club that is Capitol Hill.
"Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi says she was briefed several years ago that Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) had shown up in a wiretap. Pelosi denies that she was pressured by Israeli-American billionaire Haim Saban to appoint Harman chair of the House Intelligence Committee.
"But then at the end of the interview, Pelosi says that Harman did not get the job because of internal term limits. She said, 'The only reason Jane was not chosen is because she already had two terms. It had nothing to do with wiretaps or Iraq.'
"Iraq? Who said anything about Iraq? The accusation was that Harman was to be rewarded for getting off the hook two career employees of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee who are being tried for espionage.
"Makes you wonder what Harman had to do with getting up the Iraq War, which seems to be another strand in all this. Pelosi admitted to disagreements with major campaign funder Saban over Iraq.
"Curioser and curioser.
"Laura Rozen has more."
Not that surveillance (with warrants) was conducted on them they suddenly have become defenders of the Constitution and privacy rights.
What a bunch of hypocrites!
Juan Cole at Informed Comment has an interesting take on that situation that brings up more questions about the pay to play, multi-millionaires club that is Capitol Hill.
"Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi says she was briefed several years ago that Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) had shown up in a wiretap. Pelosi denies that she was pressured by Israeli-American billionaire Haim Saban to appoint Harman chair of the House Intelligence Committee.
"But then at the end of the interview, Pelosi says that Harman did not get the job because of internal term limits. She said, 'The only reason Jane was not chosen is because she already had two terms. It had nothing to do with wiretaps or Iraq.'
"Iraq? Who said anything about Iraq? The accusation was that Harman was to be rewarded for getting off the hook two career employees of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee who are being tried for espionage.
"Makes you wonder what Harman had to do with getting up the Iraq War, which seems to be another strand in all this. Pelosi admitted to disagreements with major campaign funder Saban over Iraq.
"Curioser and curioser.
"Laura Rozen has more."
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