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laststeamtrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-04-09 11:52 AM
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Glenn Greenwald: Someone needs to give Jane Harman an award for this

Glenn Greenwald
Monday May 4, 2009 10:48 EDT
Someone needs to give Jane Harman an award for this

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about one of the most shameless and absurd spectacles to appear in Washington in some time: the self-righteous, self-obsessed rage expressed by Blue Dog Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) -- leading defender of Bush's illegal domestic eavesdropping programs -- upon learning that one of her conversations had been legally eavesdropped upon as part of a criminal investigation into the actions of a suspected Israeli agent. Over the weekend, Harman (along with half of the U.S. Congress) appeared at the AIPAC conference and continued her new anti-eavesdropping crusade, actually vowing to lead an investigation into potential eavesdropping abuses to assure that it would never happen again. Atrios notes just some of the points that makes her behavior incomparably shameless.

But all that said, nothing can top this quote from Harman, uttered near the end of an AIPAC panel discussion after she realized that nobody was going to ask her about this matter and thus brought it up herself. As reported by a pro-AIPAC blogger in attendance:

"Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) said she is "not a victim" but a "warrior on behalf of our Constitution and against abuse of power" . . . ."

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

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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-04-09 11:54 AM
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1. The kid who kills his parents
Then pleads for the mercy of the court because he's an orphan.

"Jane Harman" should become the new definition of "chutzpah."
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lsewpershad Donating Member (964 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-04-09 12:04 PM
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2. more like
then they came for me,,,"too late Jane"
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TankLV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-04-09 12:51 PM
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3. I was going to say "Fuck Jane Harmon" but then I threw up in my mouth a little...
Edited on Mon May-04-09 12:52 PM by TankLV
right after realizing what I had almost said...
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Supersedeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-04-09 03:09 PM
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4. then right back to the AIPAC conference--definitely no denying whom she works for
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