"Dirty Fucking Hippies" vs Jane Harman

[kpete]

Anyone Else

By anyone else, Jane Harman of course means "members of Congress and people named Jane Harman."

Harman has described the wiretap as an abuse of government power. But sources have told The Washington Post that she was not being surveilled; the tapped phone belonged to the suspected Israeli agent, who happened to talk to her.

"I will not quit on this until I am absolutely sure this can never happen to anyone else," Harman told the AIPAC audience, which warmly applauded her. She said the incident was having "a chilling effect" on members of Congress who "care intensely about the U.S.-Israeli security relationship . . . and have every right to talk to advocacy groups."

ATRIOS: The absurdity is obvious. Dirty fucking hippies like me were horrified at the illegal warrantless wiretapping program and general expansion of the surveillance state in part because of the potential for political abuse (frankly, given the rubber stamp FISA court and rubber stamp Congress what other point would there be?). Jane Harman and her pal Joe Klein heaped scorn on dirty fucking hippies for such crazy views. Harman gets caught up in what appears to be a perfectly legal wiretap not aimed directly at her, though the release of the details of it might be evidence of the kind of political abuse possible in any surveillance program. Suddenly Harman is a staunch defender the right of People Like Jane Harman to not be wiretapped.

http://www.eschatonblog.com/2009/05/anyone-else.html

[lsewpershad]

1. How astute

of her to notice now.

[knixphan]

2. exactly.

[knixphan]

3. Winograd 2010!

[SLSmith]

4. Video: Harman @ AIPAC: "Warrior on Behalf Of Our Constitution & Against Abuse of Power"

Harman sat on a panel with Woolsey & 2 other gentleman on Sunday @ AIPAC. The panel moderator gave her 2 mins to "speak her mind" on Warrantless Wiretapping & the "alleged abuses" of power against herself!

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9R7yc8Msc4

[Hepburn]

5. I vote for the Hippies...

...could that be cuz I still have my tie dyes and Birkenstocks from I lived in Isla Vista in the 60s?

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:evilgrin:

[old mark]

6. I have Birkenstocks, too, but my tie dies kind of rotted away.

Another vote for the original hippies, East Coast - cold weather branch.

mark

[Hepburn]

7. Yo, bro....

...:hi: