{"id":841,"date":"2009-04-21T15:45:12","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T20:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=841"},"modified":"2009-04-21T15:45:12","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T20:45:12","slug":"pity-for-a-constitution-stomper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/21\/pity-for-a-constitution-stomper\/","title":{"rendered":"Pity for a Constitution Stomper?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congresswoman Jane Harman is indignant.  A National Security Agency wiretap reportedly picked up her conversation seeking favors from a suspected Israeli agent in return for Harman lobbying the Justice Department to drop the lawsuit against AIPAC&#8217;s former top officials.<\/p>\n<p>Harman denies the charge and swears that her good name has been defiled. (Har!). Harman sent a letter today to Attorney General Eric Holder asking him to release the transcripts of some of her NSA-tapped phone calls and to &#8220;investigate possible wiretapping of other Members of Congress and &#8216;selective leaks of investigative material which can be used for political purposes.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harman was a champion of illegal wiretaps on average Americans.  She <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/27bstroke6\/2008\/03\/harman-its-not.html\"><strong>even urged <\/strong><\/a>the New York Times not to publish its original expose on Bush&#8217;s massive domestic warrantless wiretaps, and she suggested that the New York Times should be prosecuted when they did finally uncork the story.   <\/p>\n<p>Jeff Stein&#8217;s superb CQ article on Sunday revealed that Attorney General Gonzales had rebuffed proposals to prosecute Harman after the wiretpped conversations in part because Harman became a vigorous cheerleader for Bush&#8217;s destruction of the Fourth Amendment&#8217;s prohibition on unreasonable, warrantless searches. <\/p>\n<p>The feds should release the records of Harman&#8217;s phone calls (at her request) &#8211; and all the other evidence regarding members of Congress, White House and other exeuctive branch officials,  lobbyists, and other insider players who have sought to pull strings to squelch the trial of AIPAC&#8217;s former leaders. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congresswoman Jane Harman is indignant. A National Security Agency wiretap reportedly picked up her conversation seeking favors from a suspected Israeli agent in return for Harman lobbying the Justice Department to drop the lawsuit against AIPAC&#8217;s former top officials. Harman denies the charge and swears that her good name has been defiled. (Har!). 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