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Israeli spy buys Congresswoman Harman

FTA | 21.04.2009 20:19 | Other Press | Palestine

"It's the deepest kind of corruption," said a recently retired longtime national security official who was closely involved in AIPAC investigation, "which was years in the making. "It's a story about the corruption of government — not legal corruption necessarily, but ethical corruption."

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 to reduce espionage-related charges against two officials of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, the most powerful pro-Israel organization in Washington.

Harman was recorded saying she would "waddle into" the AIPAC case "if you think it'll make a difference," according to two former senior national security officials familiar with the NSA transcript.

In exchange for Harman's help, the sources said, the suspected Israeli agent pledged to help lobby Nancy Pelosi , D-Calif., then-House minority leader, to appoint Harman chair of the Intelligence Committee after the 2006 elections, which the Democrats were heavily favored to win.

Seemingly wary of what she had just agreed to, according to an official who read the NSA transcript, Harman hung up after saying, "This conversation doesn't exist."

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Comments

Display the following 14 comments

  1. Oh those sneaky Israelis — CH
  2. Malfeasance and Israeli apologists — FTA
  3. follow the case — MDN
  4. A bribe is not a back-door communication — FTA
  5. So why relevant to UK? — CH
  6. "the corruption of government" — FTA
  7. The Zionists are Back — Zionist Scum
  8. Wicked. Almost a story there. — CH
  9. CH, you are the story now — FTA
  10. Class, this is like picking a scab — CH
  11. But CH — Abe Foxman
  12. Sneaky Israeli indeed — Danny
  13. "Please supply your name and date of birth to transfer the funds" — CH
  14. Scab — Danny