So, how does everybody feel about this ‘wiretapping’ thing now?

My oh my, what wicked irony. I can’t help having this stupid grin on my face. BUSTED Ms. Harmon, you despicable Blue Dogger. I’m ashamed to be from the state that allowed you to do so much damage.

The silver lining of course….more EXPOSURE of just how manipulated our entire political and governmental infrastructure is by AIPAC.

It’s long past time for these Blue Dog Dems to hit the same trail as their neoconservative counterparts in the republican gang of thugs also controlled by AIPAC.

They are still deeply embedded in the apparatus, (blue dog dems, neocon repugs) and we need some serious extermination. Toodles Jane. You’re out the door. Same with you Mrs. Pelosi.

Informed Comment

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Harman Scandal: All about War on Iran

“Jeff Stein of CQ.com reported on Sunday evening that the National Security Agency had picked up a telephone conversation by Representative Jane Harman (D-CA) with a suspected spy for Israel. It is alleged that in the conversation, the spy urged Harman to intervene to stop the prosecution for espionage of Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman, two career lobbyists for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee who headed up its Middle East bureau. The Israeli agent promised to lobby Pelosi to get Harman the chairmanship of the House Intelligence committee, but appears to have gone too far in doing so.

You see, for someone to call Harman and ask her to weigh in with the Justice Department on behalf of Rosen and Weissman is not illegal. But once she was offered a position, the conversation was suddenly about a bribe. At that point she is said to have hung up after asserting “This conversation never happened.”

Israel lobbies did fundraising for Nancy Pelosi in 2006 in hopes of getting Harman the chairmanship.

Two things here. It should be remembered that this whole affair has been about getting up a war on Iran. That was the point of Franklin leaking to Rosen and Weissman in the first place. Someone should go back through Harman’s statements on Iran.

Second, the transcript should be released and if it is as alleged, Harman must resign. Congress declares wars or implicitly authorizes them. American soldiers have a right to know that the representatives who send them to war are doing so on behalf of US interests. And that congressional intelligence reports are not plants by a foreign intelligence service.

Let us just stop and review what is being alleged, and to underline what it means for US security and policy.

The US is spied on, and a classified Pentagon document is passed to the Israeli embassy by AIPAC officials. They are caught because the FBI had them under surveillance. Apparently the FBI is one of the few US government institutions that is not corrupt on the issue of foreign influence on US institutions and policy. Then when the two AIPAC spies are indicted, a Mossad agent attempts to derail the prosecution by suborning a member of Congress and promising her the chairmanship of the Intelligence Committee.

Harman is denying it all, of course. But then so did Rosen and Weissman deny it all (or allege that the lack of a US official secrets act means that their passing of a classified Pentagon document to a Mossad agent was not in fact treason or illegal). Harman’s denial is clever, since the NSA wiretap is presumably classified, and so she can’t be contradicted until the document is released.”

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The fact that Harman felt compelled to end the phone conversation with, “This conversation doesn’t exist” about says it all. She knew she was doing something wrong. And if Pelosi didn’t know about this before, she certainly should know about it now. Which leaves one wondering, how complicit was or is Pelosi in this “wrong”? And beyond that, does Pelosi have the power to single handed remove Harman from her chairmanship? If not, what must we do to make that happen?

Blue-dogs are offensive. They straddle the fence trying to look like dems while they pay lip service to their constituents and lend their ear to the masters of corporate greed. kinda remind me of repubs. There can be no good outcome from such a group, unless one wants to lable Mr. “Independent” Lieberman good.

No-one can serve two masters. No-one. Which must be why people like Harman and Lieberman get away with what they get away with, because they serve a multitude of masters. Themselves first. Their corporate masters Second. Israel Third. (Sometimes Second and Third are the same thing.) And their position in government Fourth. Way down at the bottom of the list are the people who voted to give them that power. Of course if the government position makes it easier to serve Master’s One, Two and Three, so much the better. Then the value of the position might be seen as One, except only so far as it serves the other One, Two and Three. Which goes a long way to explaining Politics.

Poli; (singular for the Greek “Polis”) and Ticks; Any of numerous small bloodsucking parasites.

Meanwhile, as has been noted, mainstreammedia is far to busy throwing crap at the president (and us) and repeating the blabber of Dick (as in Bush’s favorite) to bother with more than a brief mention of Harmon’s duplicity. Which is of course why none of us are watching/reading them.

You’d think they’d get a clue, wouldn’t you.

Harman will never be found guilty of anything by our Congress. I doubt a public hearing will even happen. There is only a bare handful of them that have not taken AIPAC money and yielded to AIPAC pressure.  And if the DOJ went after her, they would be admitting that AIPAC is a intelligance agent of a foreign nation and have to try hundreds and maybe thousands of wealthy Jewish Americans as spies.

Not gonna happen.

Folktruther writes:

“Basically Zionists support the interests of Israel power against the interests of the US.”

Yes; we have descended to a new level of bad foreign policy. Previously, the US pursued its own crass, material interests, sometimes at terrible cost to other people all over the world. Now, in much of its foreign policy, the US fanatically pursues Israel’s crass material interests, regardless of harm even to the US’s own objective interests.

Look, if we’re going to have a brutal, immoral foreign policy, let’s at least have one that’s conducted for our own benefit, not for the benefit of Israel — with devastating, possibly even fatal cost to our own interests.

We could start by telling Israel that if they bomb Iran they’ll lose all support from the US. Maybe we should even considering bombing Israel, if it insists on doing something so harmful to everyone else on the planet. See how they like it.

Jane Harman, a typical Zionist shill, was almost defeated last time in the primary.  She had astonishingly effective ads on TV, astoundingly deceptive.  Paid for by Zionism, no doubt. 

She led the fight for the Zionist “thought control” bill that would censor the Internet BEFORE any crimes were committed or even charged. It passed the House 404-6, both Progessives and Conservatives genuflecting to the Zionist lobby.

Notice that Sehparad states that Zionist lemmings should WITHDRAW SUPPORT of Aipac, not oppose it.  It is this tolerance of Aipac that is the source of much of its power.  It is how an Aipac official indicted for illegally giving infomation to Israel could lead the fight to stop Charles Freeman from leading an American intelligence agencies. 

Bascially Zionists support the interests of Israel power againsts the interests of the US.

How come the ONLY eavesdropping the American people are learning about is of Democrats…by Bush administration Intell operatives?

An mountain of evidence points to widespread GOP domestic political spying… whether operating under false pretenses: “protecting the USA from terrorists”, or flat out ignoring legal procedures,i.e., fruits of the poison tree. No honorable code of civil & legal conduct seems to not have been perverted by Bush, Cheney, Rove, Gonzales or whom ever done the dirty work.

What no wiretaps on Joe Liebermann?

And, not a peep from the coporate media about that thing called BLACKMAIL.

Which is the gist of the Gonzales intervention.

Since I live in Harman’s district, Manhattan Beach CA, I’ll try to get her unelected next time she stands for office.

re: By diamond, April 20 at 9:35 pm :

As head of the “Homeland Security Inteligencel Subcommittee”, you have to wonder which “homeland” she has in mind.

The very use of the word “Homeland” by our government was one of the many creepy innovations of the Bush years. “Homeland” has a blood-and-soil ring to it that is alien to our secular republic. It sounds more like the 19-century, European, ethnic-religious-nationalist conception of what a country is - a “fatherland”, a “motherland” —  as in Zionism, for example.

People ask, rhetorically, how “tiny Israel” can exercise such power over US policy. the unnecessary rhetorically answer, “Obviously it can’t, and the people who say it does are crazy.”

This situation shows the mechanics of how it can happen. But no matter — those who point to the existence and power of the Israel lobby will continue to be dismissed as anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists. Incidents like this come to light now and again and are swiftly shunted by the corporate media down the memory hole.

Those of us who remember these things will continue to be political pariahs who are willfully imagining things because we’re anti-Semitic devils with horns and tails.

And Harman is rewarded with her post on the Homeland Security Intelligence Subcommittee because ... Why? AIPAC does considerable damage to both American and Israeli interests, consistently, in terms of supporting the most grotesque policies and now spying? American Jews who care about Israel should withdraw their support from AIPAC and find organizations that have Israel’s longterm best interests at heart, which are more threatened by the current government’s policies than anything Iran could dream up.

A moveable feast of crime and corruption; in other words the norm. And of course she chairs the Homeland Security Intelligence Subcommittee -what else would she do? The same way Michael Chertoff is head of Homeland Security. With him in charge and her heading up that committee it should be called ‘Homeland Insecurity’.

There is so much in this story (yet again..), I do not know where to start. So I will simply “end” with, “Yet again just another example of this ” biased relationship” we have with a government that should be prosecuted…..but is not.

“You can neither change nor redefine “truth and justice”. A “biased” in favor of….leaves no validity in regards to all “associated affairs”.