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NSA/Harman Summary of the bullet points

You've probably heard about Congressional Quarterly's article regarding the NSA wiretapping and Representative Jane Harman. But it's a 4 page article and there's been lots of additional analysis and speculation surrounding it. So here's a nice summary from Attaturk for those who don't want to delve into the details:

1. Congressman Jane Harman (D - CA) told a suspected Israeli agent that she would lobby the Justice Department to reduce espionage-related charges against two officials of AIPAC, the powerful pro-Israel lobby.

2. This is known because of an NSA Wiretap.

3. The suspected Israeli agent then promised to lobby Nancy Pelosi to make Harman chair of the House Intelligence Committee after the 2006 elections (she wasn't).

4. There were some reports of this influence peddling in 2006, but it was dropped for a "lack of evidence" by Alberto R. Gonzales, who intervened to stop the investigation.

5. Gonzales intervened because he wanted Harman to defend the administration's warrantless wiretapping program, which was about break in The New York Times.

6. And she promptly went out and defended it.

So as you can see the circle is complete. Caught on an NSA wiretap, Congressperson is saved, so as to defend illegal NSA wiretapping.


By fnord12 | April 20, 2009, 11:55 AM | Liberal Outrage