MSM can't get their spin on Pelosi/Harman straight

[ProSense]

April 22, 2009, 2:54 pm

Pelosi Now Remembers Harman Wiretap

By David M. Herszenhorn

Speaker Nancy Pelosi acknowledged today that she had indeed been briefed about a wiretap that recorded conversations involving Representative Jane Harman, contradicting a statement she made on Tuesday when she said she didn’t remember being advised of such surveillance.

But Ms. Pelosi said today that although she was briefed, the Justice Department had not provided her with details and that Ms. Harman was not the subject/target of the surveillance.

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“That’s one of the issues that is important to note here is that when you are briefed on something, it isn’t your information to share with anybody else, whether they are briefing you on legal opinions or whether they are briefing you on actions they are taking, you have no ability to share that information with anyone else, so even if I wanted to share it with her I would not have had the liberty to share it,” Ms. Pelosi said.

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During an event yesterday, Ms. Pelosi had been asked about the wiretap controversy and whether she had known about it. She said:

As you know, this is a breaking story, so I don’t know the particulars but I do think that I don’t know that Congressman Harman was wiretapped, I mean somebody was wiretapped and there may have been a conversation. I really do not know enough about it to be an authority on the subject. I do know that Congresswoman Harman is a very valued, informed member of the Congress and her service on the Intelligence Committee and on the Homeland Security Committee on which she serves now is very valuable to the safety of the American people.

At today’s luncheon, the speaker also offered a strong defense of her one-time friend. “I have great confidence in Jane Harman,” Ms. Pelosi said. “She is a patriotic American,” She would never do anything to hurt her country.”

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How is that different from what Pelosi said yesterday?

Also, this is the same BS story that sparked the rumor that a member of Congress was spied on. The only new in the current story is the claim that Harman was the subject.

[Duer 157099]

1. "...I do think that I don’t know..." Priceless n/t

[goclark]

2. Oh my ~ please say it isn't so~

[Life Long Dem]

3. They've been framing their own stories for awhile.

[Frank Booth]

4. Why is there even the suggestion that Pelosi should have shared this information with Harman?

If intelligence is picking up conversations in which a representative agrees to help foreign spies, informing the representative should land the informer in jail.

[ShortnFiery]

5. I wonder if anyone had "a quiet" word with Nancy and Harry about some of the stuff

that those all-knowing wire taps may have had on their potential skeletons? My imagination runs wild. :tinfoilhat: