In 2005, Congresswoman Harman (D-CA) told an Israeli agent that she would encourage the Justice Department to reduce Espionage charges against two members of the Pro-Israel lobby, AIPAC. In exchange, the Israeli agent promised to help Harman get appointed to chair the Intelligence Committee.
The two AIPAC members were Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman who allegedly gave classified Pentagon documents to Israeli officials.
In October, 2005, the DOJ and FBI were investigating whether Harman and/or AIPAC violated the law. Around that time, DOJ lawyers concluded that Harman had violated the law.
But then Attorney General Gonzales ordered a stop to the investigation into Harman’s activities. In exchange for this, Gonzales wanted Harman to help defend Bush’s illegal wiretap program. Gonzales knew that the New York Times was about to break the story about the illegal wiretap program, and on 16 December 2005, the Times ran the article.
On Dec. 21, 2005, Harman issued a statement defending the illegal wiretap operation and slamming the Times, saying, “I believe it essential to U.S. national security, and that its disclosure has damaged critical intelligence capabilities.” On February 12, 2006, Harman condemned the Times for publishing the article and Harman suggested that criminal charges might be brought up against the Times and the whistleblowers who broke the story.
Because of Gonzales, the investigation into Harman’s possible criminal activity was scuttled.
http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=hsnews-000003098436&cpage=1
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/20/harman/index.html
Update: Harmon was one of the biggest Democrat cheerleaders for Bush’s warrantless wiretapping program. And today, she’s whining that her conversations offering to help Israeli spies was recorded without a warrant.
Pure hypocrite.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/21/harman/index.html
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