Is Congressman Jane Harman An Israeli Agent of Influence?
Congressional Quarterly (CQ) features a major scoop today about California Rep. Jane Harman that is sending shock waves through Washington, DC. CQ reporter Jeff Stein says that several former top national security officials told him that in 2005 Harman offered to lean on the Bush Justice Department in return for the help of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC) help to become chair of the House Intelligence Committee. Either Harman is being viciously smeared or she has been functioning as a stooge for pro-Israel interests. The real bombshell is that Harman was apparently caught on a National Security Agency wiretap declaring to what Stein deems a “suspected Israeli agent” that she would “waddle into” the controversy surrounding two AIPAC officials, Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman, who are being prosecuted under the obscure provisions of the Espionage Act, if necessary. The phone call ended with Harman apparently admonishing, “This conversation doesn’t exist.” Did it? H
