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Rep Harman reportedly under investigation
The Washington Times ^ | 20 October 2006 | NA

Posted on 10/21/2006 2:14:49 AM PDT by YaYa123

The U.S. Justice Department is trying to determine whether Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., got improper help from an Israeli lobbying group. Harman of California is the senior Democrat on the House intelligence committee. Time Magazine reports she may have received a boost from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee when Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi wanted to remove her from the committee. Harman left a voice mail for the magazine calling any suggestions of improper conduct "irresponsible, laughable and scurrilous." She has retained Ted Olson, the lawyer who formerly served as President George W. Bush's solicitor general.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aipac; corruption; democrat; haimsaban; harman; nancypelosi; olson; pelosi; saban; takethat; tedolson; turley
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To: YaYa123
Being that this appeared in Time, which won't print anything without DNC permission, I have to wonder if it was the GOP who got the ball rolling here, or was instead the far left of her own party. For one thing, AIPAC is a pro-Israel group, and the MoveOn/Soros/Dean wing of the party are nothing but raving anti-Semites. Secondly, Nancy Pelosi and Harmon do not like one another, ann I'm sure that Pelosi has her own favorite hard leftist she'd rather see as Intelligence Committee Chairman if the Dims win.

Right now, my gut tells me this is a case of Nancy measuring the Speaker's office for new drapes - IOW, the Dims feeling that this one is in the bag so it's not going to hurt if the purge starts now. These idiots just never learn.

61 posted on 10/21/2006 10:25:56 AM PDT by CFC__VRWC (AIDS, abortion, euthanasia - Don't liberals just kill ya?)
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To: nuconvert
Another Clinton holdover?

I doubt that the President has any say over who Congresspeople choose to hire as their staffers.

62 posted on 10/21/2006 10:27:48 AM PDT by CFC__VRWC (AIDS, abortion, euthanasia - Don't liberals just kill ya?)
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To: YaYa123

WHY would Ted Olsen take her case??? WHORE?


63 posted on 10/21/2006 10:29:33 AM PDT by Suzy Quzy
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To: nuconvert; All

Oops, I just re-read the dates on his DOD service. I take that last post back.


64 posted on 10/21/2006 10:30:28 AM PDT by CFC__VRWC (AIDS, abortion, euthanasia - Don't liberals just kill ya?)
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To: Suzy Quzy

Interesting question - it makes me think even more that the push against Harmon is coming from the left, not the right.


65 posted on 10/21/2006 10:32:18 AM PDT by CFC__VRWC (AIDS, abortion, euthanasia - Don't liberals just kill ya?)
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To: YaYa123

Hmmmm........


66 posted on 10/21/2006 10:40:57 AM PDT by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand; but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: YaYa123

Another poor Democrat, huh?


67 posted on 10/21/2006 10:45:06 AM PDT by Conservativegreatgrandma
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To: CFC__VRWC
Interesting question - it makes me think even more that the push against Harmon is coming from the left, not the right.

Harmon WAS one of the better Rats, at least on National Security.

Early on in the left's attack on NSA's monitoring of terrorist calls into the US, Harmon publicly stated that the program had been a good and effective protection for all of us and that it didn't violate civil rights, etc. I think that's when her problems from the traitorous left started up.

She was obviously threatened by Pelosi (and probably IMO the groups Soros organized) and she could see how anyone in her party that didn't follow the Stalinist line got thrown under the bus.

Unfortunately, she caved rather than fight for what's right. She began to look like a marionette being worked by a puppeteer with 3 gallons of espresso in him. Jane was hopping and jerking all around and she started making the same public statements (contradicting earlier ones) that the moon-bats make.

That's bad enough, but it looks like she MAY have gone beyond the whacko public statements and into actual violations of law. Thus the attack from the right after the attack from the left.

She's earned being in the spot she's in IMO.

68 posted on 10/21/2006 11:10:39 AM PDT by Sal (Once you know they sold USA out to Red China, what do you think they would NOT do?)
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To: nuconvert

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1722821/posts


69 posted on 10/21/2006 1:21:37 PM PDT by PghBaldy (Depose Nancy! What did she know and when did she know it?)
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To: Fatuncle

Well I'm over 55 and I can't remember what you said.....(lol)


70 posted on 10/21/2006 1:29:12 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 (My ? to libs: "Do they ever shut up on your planet?" "Grow your own DOPE: Plant a LIB!")
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To: YaYa123

(pardon my giggle)



I'm smirking....hehehe


71 posted on 10/21/2006 1:30:46 PM PDT by mystery-ak (My Son, My Soldier, My Hero........God Speed Jonathan......)
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To: Dane
Ted Olson is a good lawyer and I bet you Ms. Harman is paying a pretty penny for his legal advice.

It isn't his "legal advice" she's paying for - - it's who he knows.

72 posted on 10/21/2006 1:32:58 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: piasa

In the 2001-2002 election cycle, his Saban Capital group donated over 10 million dollars to the Democratic National Committee[2], the largest donation from a single source up to that time.


73 posted on 10/21/2006 1:37:48 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: nuconvert

It appears so. I read that Dayton's wealth didn't increase fast enough. Maybe in the last ranking he was.


74 posted on 10/21/2006 1:38:23 PM PDT by PghBaldy (Depose Nancy! What did she know and when did she know it?)
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To: HarleyLady27
Well I'm over 55 and I can't remember what you said.....(lol)

I said something? When was this?

75 posted on 10/21/2006 1:39:22 PM PDT by Fatuncle (Of course I'm ignorant. I'm here to learn.)
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To: mware; billhilly

God, my same reaction.


76 posted on 10/21/2006 1:44:49 PM PDT by girlangler (Fish Fear Me)
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To: YaYa123

This will not get even a 10th of the attention the drive-by media gave to Foley's IMs if even that - the coverage of the Reid scandal is a case in point.


77 posted on 10/21/2006 2:15:55 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Political Junkie Too

She's a severe and nasty critic of POTUS.


78 posted on 10/21/2006 2:22:17 PM PDT by onyx (We have two political parties: the American Party and the Anti-American Party.)
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To: Lancey Howard


Right. Dammit.


79 posted on 10/21/2006 2:22:50 PM PDT by onyx (We have two political parties: the American Party and the Anti-American Party.)
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To: YaYa123

Sadly, I see little chance that the GOP will be able to properly exploit this scandal before election. On the other hand, Speaker in Waiting Pelousy may be able to turn this into a "no lose" situation for the 'Rats. If Harman goes to court, Nancy would be able to say, "I never wanted her in the first place". If Harman is exonerated, the 'Rats will say she was the victim of a vicious Republican smear.


80 posted on 10/21/2006 2:26:05 PM PDT by pawdoggie
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