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Posted on Feb 7, 2011
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Rep. Jane Harman will swap her seat in Congress for the top post at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Los Angeles’ own Rep. Jane Harman is gearing up to leave Capitol Hill in order to head up the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, according to reports that surfaced Monday. Her exit isn’t expected to change the composition of the House, as her district tends to favor Democratic candidates, and a special election will reportedly take place to fill her seat, according to The New York Times.

“The Caucus” in The New York Times:

Ms. Harman sought, after Democrats took control of the House in 2006, to become chairwoman of the Intelligence Committee, but she was blocked by another Californian, Representative Nancy Pelosi, who had become speaker of the House.

Ms. Harman has served two stints in Congress, from 1993 to 1999 and from 2001 until now.

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By Ellen, February 9, 2011 at 3:23 pm Link to this comment
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Jane Harman often sold out her constituencies and was caught red handed for
spying. Chances are, she’s vacating her seat to make room for someone aspiring
to power in exchange for a prestigious post at the Wilson Center. Alas, the Wilson
Center has lost a lot of academic cachet and is visibly a shill for US corporate
interests.  It is now as it was then: to “make it” in politics, you either have to be a
crook or be willing to sleep with them, or both.

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By omop, February 9, 2011 at 2:18 pm Link to this comment

Are, as some have suggested, the parasites beginning to exit public office in the
soon to become a full fledged “banana republic” US of A?

And scholars still insist that one can learn from history.

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By David Boyajian, February 9, 2011 at 10:04 am Link to this comment
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The controversial (many would say scandalous) Jane
Harman is going to join the Wilson Center, which itself is mired in numerous scandals.

They deserve each other.
Two exposes:

“The Selling of the Woodrow Wilson Center” (October 2010)

http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2010/10/02/the-selling-of-the-woodrow-wilson-center/all/1

“The Woodrow Wilson Center Desecrates its Namesake’s Legacy and Violates its Congressional Mandate” (May 2010):

http://www.countercurrents.org/boyajian060510.htm
A scathing letter written by Congressman Gary Ackerman (D-NY) to his former colleague, Lee Hamilton, due to the WWC’s giving an undeserved award to the Turkish Foreign Minister in June:

http://ackerman.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=186§iontree=4,186&itemid=1029
A Wilson family descendant, Donald Wilson Bush, blasts the Wilson Center – (“Pawn for the Wrong President”):

http://keghart.com/DWBush_Pawn

Claudia Rosett takes the Wilson Center to task (“What Kind of Washington Fools Would Honor Turkey’s Foreign Minister?”):
http://pajamasmedia.com/claudiarosett/what-kind-of-washington-fools-would-honor-turkeys-foreign-minister/?

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By MK Ultra, February 9, 2011 at 10:00 am Link to this comment
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Given Ms. Hartman’s past record, I gather that she has been offered a better position with AIPAC.  Whatever it is, good riddance and let’s hope that Capitol’s heavy doors hit her ass on her way out.

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By BrunoDiderot, February 9, 2011 at 8:09 am Link to this comment

She stood for what most in her party and in the GOP stood for.

Apparently she got Pelosi mad at her, but NOT over any policy differences.

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By Fat Freddy, February 8, 2011 at 8:25 pm Link to this comment

Her husband was behind the deal to merge Newsweek and the Daily Beast. He might be “behind” Tina Brown, as well, or on top.

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By Big B, February 8, 2011 at 8:45 am Link to this comment

The words “warmongering whore” are thrown around alot now-a-days…...

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By Jim Bouman, February 7, 2011 at 9:52 pm Link to this comment
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Good riddance to this the worst of those Members of Congress who would make the U.S. the bodyguard of the fundamentally evil Israel lobby.

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By PatrickHenry, February 7, 2011 at 8:23 pm Link to this comment

May the door hit her in her big fat ass. 

She should be in prison for treason.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/rights/137494/bombshell:_rep._jane_harman_caught_on_tape_agreeing_to_lobby_for_alleged_aipac_israel_spies/

No, her leaving doesn’t change the makeup of the congress, almost all zionist suckasses.

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