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WillYourVoteBCounted Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-20-09 12:40 AM
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Rep Harman to Israeli Agent: "This conversation doesn't exist."
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Yes, she's a democrat. But is THIS what we pay her for, is THIS what we want our lawmakers to do?
And she doesn't want the public to know.
THIS is an espionage case against some AIPAC officials that she promises to "help" out in.

April 19, 2009 – 8:49 p.m.

Sources: Wiretap Recorded Rep. Harman Promising to Intervene for AIPAC

By Jeff Stein, CQ SpyTalk Columnist

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 drop espionage charges against two officials of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, the most powerful pro-Israel organization in Washington.

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.

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.

Seemingly wary of what she had just agreed to, according to an official who read the NSA transcript, Harman hung up after saying, “This conversation doesn’t exist.”

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http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=hsnews-000003098436

The LAST thing we want from Democratic Lawmakers is for them to need to say that
"This conversation doesn’t exist.”






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