The Jane Harman wiretap controversy is convoluted enough without key officials changing their stories every day.

First there was Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif. editing her explanations of fundraising flaps, her Israeli friends and her campaign to get the chairmanship of the House Intelligence Committee. 

Then came Speaker Nancy Pelosi revising and extending her remarks on what she knew about the Harman wiretap. 

Now comes Dennis C. Blair, the erstwhile navy admiral who is Director of National Intelligence, the third official to lead that office since 2005.

More confusion.

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.