CIA “Whistleblower” Told Hastert About Suppression of Harman Wiretap

[Fireweed247]

“In the fall of 2006 a member of my staff was approached by a whistleblower and told that a member of Congress was captured on audiotape while talking to someone who was a target of a legally authorized wiretap related to an espionage investigation,” Hastert said in the e-mail response to questions from Congressional Quarterly.

Hastert was referring to Harman, a California Democrat who was then ranking on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and had made it known she wanted to become the panel’s chairwoman if Democrats gained control of Congress. Former intelligence officials also have identified Harman as the member of Congress picked up on the wiretap.

“The whistleblower came forward because an important protocol was being ignored whereby the congressional leadership is notified of such intercepts,” Hastert said. “Specifically, I was told that the whistleblower indicated that the CIA director was being blocked from briefing the leadership.”

The whistleblower had charged that Negroponte, a career diplomat before he became the first to head the ODNI in 2005, was responsible for blocking Goss from informing House leaders, former Hastert chief of staff Scott Palmer said.

http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=hsnews-000003103377

[leftstreet]

1. Negroponte always turns up like a bad penny

Interesting article.

[Fireweed247]

2. kick

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