| See also the American Thinker blog entry here. This is downright creepy. The people pushing this want to nail Harman because she's long been a moderate Democrat with some common sense on intel issues. This leak had to come from the top. Think Rahm. |
Rep. 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 to reduce espionage-related charges against two officials of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, the most powerful pro-Israel organization in Washington.
| Imagine the reaction if the Bush administration had leaked an NSA wiretap. |
Harman was recorded saying she would "waddle into" the AIPAC case "if you think it'll make a difference," according to two former senior national security officials familiar with the NSA transcript.
| By the way, the two AIPAC officials who were charged just happen to be coming up for trial real soon now. Just a coincidence that this wiretap was released. |
In exchange for Harman's help, the sources said, the suspected Israeli agent pledged to help lobby Nancy Pelosi , D-Calif., then-House minority leader, to appoint Harman chair of the Intelligence Committee after the 2006 elections, which the Democrats were heavily favored to win.
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