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April 24, 2009 | 6:58 pm

Gonzales twist in Harman, AIPAC controversy

Posted by Brad A. Greenberg

This story’s got legs. Rep. Jane Harman, who was allegedly and unknowingly taped while promising to advocate for two AIPAC officials accused of spying, may have gotten some assistance, after the fact, from then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. The New York Times reports:

The director of the Central Intelligence Agency concluded in late 2005 that a conversation picked up on a government wiretap was serious enough to require notifying Congressional leaders that Representative Jane Harman, Democrat of California, could become enmeshed in an investigation into Israeli influence in Washington, former government officials said Thursday.

But Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales told the director of the agency, Porter J. Goss, to hold off on briefing lawmakers about the conversation, between Ms. Harman and an Israeli intelligence operative, despite a longstanding government policy to inform Congressional leaders quickly whenever a member of Congress could be a target of a national security investigation.

One reason Mr. Gonzales intervened, the former officials said, was to protect Ms. Harman because they saw her as a valuable administration ally in urging The New York Times not to publish an article about the National Security Agency’s program of wiretapping without warrants.

Wow, it’s getting difficult to keep straight all the moving parts.

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The reason that it is getting difficult to keep it straight is the obfuscating style of the Times which makes one too tired to try, but just conclude that some people are up to no good, and ...Harman ...Israeli intelligence operative ...influence

Here, let me help. I have no ax to grind, I never heard of Harman before her name appeared on the blog.

First of all, notice that the CIA and the Times itself figure in the story, so their statements are all suspect. Next, and cutting through all the chaff, ”[Harman] has said she is outraged that her conversations were collected and asked Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to release all transcripts of them.” In other words, skip the gossip and innuendo, and put up or shut up. If that sentence was the lead and headline, the rest of the story becomes uninteresting. Maybe something is fishy, but with that statement service is returned and the ball is entirely outside of Harman’s court.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 4/25/09 at 9:36 pm

Brad, why do you post these things if you are not interested in discussing them?

OK, here is an Op-Ed from the LA Times, frequent friend (haha) of Israel.

Just to avoid massive cutting and pasting, I just note that Harmon was alleged to intercede - but the FBI says she never did. In exchange Harmon was to be rewarded by being named chair of the House Intelligence Committee - but she wasn’t. Or else, Haim Saban would withhold campaign support for Pelosi - but he never did withhold support. Hmmm. Very devious plot here. No wonder it’s difficult to keep straight.

On top of everything, much as with the Guantanamo Bay transcripts and intelligence reports, it is the alleged wrongdoers insisting on releasing all evidence to the public while the new clean-sweep administration good guys are squirming and evading. Not like Obama or Holder could be involved, all of this was in 2005-6, not long after the Republican victory. Holder should be dancing in glee and railing to indict the Republicans and Israel/AIPAC ‘bad guys’; Cheney, Gonzales, Likudniks, whatever. Hard to really form an opinion on this (that doesn’t involve speaking ill of the administration).

Comment by Ben Plonie on 4/26/09 at 7:47 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZfvu1r6JFM

Comment by Chris Harris on 5/08/09 at 10:11 am

‘Presidency for sale, eh’ Interesting.

[url=http://www.nowpublic.com/world/secret-foreign-terrorist-money-floods-obama-campaign]Secret, Foreign, Terrorist Money Floods Into Obama Campaign
[/url]
Barack Obama’s Anti-Israel Alliances

Carter’s Arab Funding May Color Israel Stance
Jimmy Carter’s Hatred: Funded by Arab Money
Ex-President for Sale

On and on.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 5/09/09 at 10:32 pm

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