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Jane Harman: Stupid and Reckless, Not the Victim of Illegal Wiretaps
by emptywheel
Posted on April 20, 2009

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But the fact that Harman was picked up on a wiretap is not one of them.

The CQ story makes it clear that this wiretap was court approved and was directed not at Harman, but at the suspected Israeli spy whom she was talking to.

What is new is that Harman is said to have been picked up on a court-approved NSA tap directed at alleged Israel covert action operations in Washington. <my emphasis>

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What is absolutely astounding, however, is that someone well-versed in intelligence like Harman got on the phone with someone reported to be under investigation at least a year earlier, agreed to a quid pro quo, and then said (so the NSA could hear her), “This conversation doesn’t exist.”

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Link: http://www.emptywheel.net/2009/04/20/jane-harman-stupid-and-reckless-not-the-victim-of-illegal-wiretaps/