Jane Harman new CIA Director?

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55. Jane was forced to resign her seat on the Intel Comm. after FBI recorded a talk w/ the Mossad Chief

in Washington in which she promised to "waddle into" the OSP-AIPAC spy case and get charges reduced. In exchange, she delivered a favor to the Bush Administration of voting for its surveillance Bill. She is regarded as an agent of influence for Israel, but was never prosecuted. See below.

While I've seen this CIA appointment rumored, it makes no sense that she'd now be considered for CIA Director.

http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/04/20/on_jane_harman_aipac_the_nsa_etc

For those of you coming in late: Jeff Stein at Congressional Quarterly has a bombshell story that the NSA monitored a 2005 conversation between Rep. Jane Harman and a suspected "Israeli agent," in which Harmon allegedly said she would "waddle in" to the ongoing AIPAC espionage case to get the charges reduced in exchange for AIPAC's help in helping her retain her influential position on the Intel Commmittee. Stein also reports that Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez later quashed a DOJ investigation into this incident in order to secure Harman's support for the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program.

If true, this incident is another vivid reminder of the problems created by the "special relationship," to include the web of connections between pro-Israel lobbyists, politicians who are beholden to them, and (allegedly) Israeli intelligence.