is that it caught people like Rep. Jane Harman in bed with lobbyists, and AIPAC at that, a group that puts a foreign state's interests ahead of those of the US, when she should be in the sack with her constituents and the American public.
From Juan Cole:
"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."
(Apparently, also, Israeli American billionaire Haim Saban threatened to pull Pelosi's campaign donations if she did not put Harman on the Intelligence committee.)
Congressional Quarterly reported on it here first.
Juan Cole has a great synopses. You need to scroll down for posts from Wednesday. I like his suggestions that AIPAC register as an agent of a foreign state.
NYTimes wrote on it today here.
I have a feeling this Harman situation is going to get hairier and hairier...stay tuned.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
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