{"id":7835,"date":"2009-04-21T09:03:15","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T14:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=7835"},"modified":"2009-04-21T13:47:41","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T18:47:41","slug":"sources-wiretap-recorded-rep-harman-promising-to-intervene-for-aipac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=7835","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Wiretap Recorded Rep. Harman Promising to Intervene for AIPAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/static.cqpolitics.com\/harman-3098436-page1.html?docID=hsnews-000003098436&amp;cpage=1#\">By Jeff Stein, CQ SpyTalk Columnist<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rep.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cqpolitics.com\/wmspage.cfm?docID=profile-000000000590\">Jane Harman<\/a> , the California Democrat with a longtime involvement in intelligence issues, was overheard on an NSA wiretap telling a suspected Israeli agent that she would lobby the Justice Department reduce espionage-related charges against two officials of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, the most powerful pro-Israel organization in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Harman was recorded saying she would &#8220;waddle into&#8221; the AIPAC case &#8220;if you think it&#8217;ll make a difference,&#8221; according to two former senior national security officials familiar with the NSA transcript.<\/p>\n<p>(See related transcript of Join Jeff Stein <a href=\"http:\/\/innovation.cq.com\/liveonline\/54\/landing\">online Q&amp;A about his column<\/a>.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/static.cqpolitics.com\/harman-3098436-page1.html?docID=hsnews-000003098436&#038;cpage=1\">Read the report<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Update<\/em>: <strong>Jeff Stein: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cqpolitics.com\/spytalk\/2009\/04\/harman-aipac-nsa-what-did-i-kn.html\">Harman, AIPAC, NSA: What did I Know, and When Did I Know It?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jeff Stein, CQ SpyTalk Columnist Rep. Jane Harman , the California Democrat with a longtime involvement in intelligence issues, was overheard on an NSA wiretap telling a suspected Israeli agent that she would lobby the Justice Department reduce espionage-related &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=7835\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-22n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7835"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7848,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7835\/revisions\/7848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}