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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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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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Convicted CIA Official Was Suspected of Sharing Woman with Russian Mole

By Jeff Stein | February 26, 2009 3:26 PM | | Comments (2)

Kyle "Dusty" Foggo's CIA dossier included allegations that he was sharing a woman with a suspected Russian mole, according to a top former spy agency official and other sources.

CIA Director Porter J. Goss knew about the allegation when he hired Foggo to be the agency's executive director, its third highest official, an aide said Thursday.

Tags: Brant_Bassett, Brent_Wilkes, bribery, CIA, corruption, counterintelligence, espionage, Felix_Bloch, Foggo, John_Kerry, Porter_J._Goss, Randall_"Duke"_Cunningham, spying

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