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Harman Comes Out Swinging Once More in Israel Wiretap Flap

By Jeff Stein | June 25, 2009 4:46 PM | | Comments (2)

Rep.  Jane Harman, D-Calif, who was reportedly overheard on a 2005 NSA wiretap agreeing to lobby Bush administration officials on behalf of two accused Israeli agents, released a letter from the Department of Justice today that she says clears her of any wrongdoing. 

"It states I am not a target or subject of an investigation," a press release from Harman's office said. "This reaffirms similar information I received in early 2007 following initial unsubstantiated leaks."

But in claiming absolution from the Justice Department, Harman has continued a public relations tack of effectively denying something she was never charged with.

Tags: AIPAC, criminal_defense_lawyer, electronic_spying, electronic_surveillance, FISA, Jane_Harman, Justice_Department, NSA, Public_Integrity_Section, Reid_Weingarten, wiretap

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AIPAC Verdict Sure to Fuel More Harman Conspiracy Theories

By Jeff Stein | May 1, 2009 10:25 AM | | Comments (2)

The Justice Department's decision to drop espionage charges against two pro-Israel lobbyists will certainly pour jet fuel on conspiracy theories burning up the blogosphere over the Jane Harman wiretap controversy.

Tags: AIPAC, CIA, espionage, FBI, Israel, Israeli_lobby, Jane_Harman, Justice_Department, Porter_J._Goss, spies

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Embattled Harman Challenges Columnist to Road Race

By Jeff Stein | April 29, 2009 3:08 PM | | Comments (3)

Embattled California Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., shrugged off woes over a wiretapping controversy Wednesday and claimed "Best Team Name Honors" for this year's Capital Challenge mini-marathon race.

"Tapped Out," an obvious reference to revelations that Harman was overheard by government wiretappers in conversations with a suspected Israeli intelligence agent in 2005, evidently won the judges' hearts as best team moniker.  

Sponsored by the American Council of Life Insurers, the three-mile jog draws a large congressional turnout.  It begins and ends in southeast Washington's Anacostia Park

The eight term-Democrat took the occasion to throw a road-race challenge to SpyTalk, which has taken the lead in exposing the wiretapped conversations and allegations that Bush administration officials effectively blocked FBI agents from questioning her about promises she was said to have made to the target of a FBI foreign counterintelligence operation.

Tags: AIPAC, American_Israel_Public_Affairs_Committee, CIA, espionage, Jane_Harman, Laura_Rozen, Mossad

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Intelligence Officials Tipped Pelosi To Harman Wiretap

By Jeff Stein | April 22, 2009 10:33 PM | | Comments (5)

Intelligence officials, angry that former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales had blocked an FBI investigation into Democratic Rep. Jane Harman's interactions with a suspected Israeli agent, tipped off Nancy Pelosi, the House Democratic leader, that Harman had been picked up on a court-ordered National Security Agency wiretap targeting the agent.

In doing so, the officials flouted an order by Gonzales not to inform Pelosi, three former national security officials said.

Tags: AIPAC, Alberto_Gonzales, Brendan_Daly, Bush, CIA, Congress, corruption, counterintelligence, CQ_Politics, espionage, FBI, FISA, foreign_agent, Israel, Jane_Harman, John_D._Negroponte, Nancy_Pelosi, NSA, Obama, ODNI, pay_for_play, Porter_J._Goss, Robert_S._Mueller_III, scandal, Silvestre_Reyes, Speaker_of_the_House, spying, subversion, warrantless_electronic_spying_program, White_House, wiretapping

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Harman, AIPAC, NSA: What did I Know, and When Did I Know It?

By Jeff Stein | April 21, 2009 2:20 AM | | Comments (2)

The tremendous interest in my story yesterday about a 2005 NSA wiretap picking up California Democratic Rep. Jane Harman conversing with a suspected Israeli agent took me by surprise, frankly.

It's always gratifying to find so many people paying attention to things like this when Carrie Prejean is only a click away. 

The first thing I want to dispel, though, is the apparently widespread notion that the timing of my story Monday was somehow related to: (1) the upcoming trial of former AIPAC lobbyists Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman; (2) the raging debate over the NSA's warrantless wiretaps, (3) the Justice Department/CIA's torture memos; (4) anything else.

Tags: AIPAC, campaign_funds, CIA, David_Corn, Glenn_Greenwald, Huffington_Post, Jane_Harman, Keith_Weissman, NSA, Porter_J._Goss, Steve_Rosen, wiretapping

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