{"article":{"id":190083,"heading":"Jane Harman, the Manchurian Candidate (FINAL)","author":"David Roknich","created":"2006-12-06 00:39:35","modified":"2006-12-14 02:58:03","last_modified":"Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:58:03","article":"

According to Tom Hayden, Harman\r\n\"...was one of a handful of Congressmembers invited into the secret White House \r\n\r\nbriefings on what has mushroomed into a major scandal: the launch of domestic spying by \r\n\r\nintelligence agencies without warrants. The ranking Democrat on the House intelligence committee, \r\n\r\nHarman promised the White House to keep secret what she heard at the meetings.\r\n<\/p>

\r\nShe could have been a whistleblower, but chose not to be...
\r\nLeft to Harman, the spy scandal would still be a secret today. It was the New York Times, not \r\n\r\nDemocratic leaders, who first broke the silence and secrecy.\r\n\r\nFortunately, Tom read the New York Times on May 18th, and it precipitated this brilliant outpouring in his \r\n\r\nblog at the Huffington \r\n\r\npost, which began:\r\n\r\n\"It must have been embarrassing for Rep. Jane Harman to read the front page of the Times this \r\n\r\nweek that Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi 'intends to force Harman to step down' from her slot on \r\n\r\nthe House Intelligence Committee, partly because of 'concern among Democrats that Harman is too \r\n\r\nmoderate and inclined to accomodate the Republican agenda.\" \r\n<\/p>

\r\nSo it should not have been a surprise to the media 6 months later when Harman was passed over in \r\n\r\nthe search for a new chairman, although NPR and others acted as though it was.<\/p>\r\nHarman was Treated Favorably by the Democrats\r\n

\r\nThe reason why it should not be a surprise is that Nancy Pelosi never intended to \"force Harman \r\n\r\noff the committee.\" As a matter of procedure established within the Democratic party, Harman was \r\n\r\nscheduled to resign. This was correctly reported by the LA Weekly<\/i> on May 24, 2006. By the \r\n\r\nterm limit rules that Democratic caucas has established, Harman's term as ranking Democrat on the \r\n\r\nintelligence committee ends this year. Her removal is not an act of malice by Pelosi. On the \r\n\r\ncontrary, Harman has been treated favorably by the Democratic leadership as explained by the LA \r\n\r\nWeekly:<\/p>

\r\n\r\n\"She was already seen as a member who got special treatment. She was out of the House for two \r\n\r\nyears, from 1998 to 2000, when she gave up her seat for a gubernatorial bid in the 1998 \r\n\r\nDemocratic primary. When she won the seat back in 2000, then House Democratic Leader Dick \r\n\r\nGephardt restored her seniority although this was not a common practice. When Nancy Pelosi \r\n\r\nsucceeded Gephardt as leader, she jumped Harman over a more senior Democrat, Sanford Bishop of \r\n\r\nGeorgia, to make her the ranking Democrat on Intelligence.\"\r\n<\/p>\r\nHarman was at Odds with the Democrats\r\nIn spite of her favorable treatment by the Democratic party, Harman made an appearance on Meet \r\n\r\nthe Press<\/i> where she expressed more concern about the New York Times<\/i>' revelations of \r\n\r\nillegal domestic spying than about the violation of due process by the NSA. This inspired \r\n\r\nprogessive Democrat Marcy Winograd to mount a significant challenge in the Democratic primary, \r\n\r\nbut she was seriously outspent by the always well-funded Harman campaign.\r\n

\r\nHarman's blase' \r\n\r\nendorsement of illegal domestic spying was not the only issue that set her at odds with fellow \r\n\r\nDemocrats. According to retired NSA analyst Wayne Madsen\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\r\n\"Harman reportedly agreed to work with Republican chairman Peter Hoekstra to avoid an \r\n\r\ninvestigation of the cooked up pre-war intelligence on Iraq in return for the Bush administration \r\n\r\ngoing easy on the investigation of AIPAC (America Israel Public Affairs Committee) officials \r\n\r\nSteve Rosen and Keith Weissman, both later indicted for receiving highly classified documents \r\n\r\nfrom Israeli Pentagon spy Larry Franklin.\"\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\nThe Neocon Connection and AIPAC\r\n\r\n

\r\nEvery nationality has its fascist element : the French had Vichey, and the Israelis have AIPAC. \r\n\r\nAIPAC has something that is well understood in Washington: suitcases full of cash. And that is \r\n\r\nwhy the dynamic duo of Larry Franklin and Douglas Fieth are walking the streets again, thanks to \r\n\r\nthe former US prosecutor for the district of Eastern Virginia, Paul J. \r\n\r\nMcNulty. McNulty was appointed when the nomination of Timothy Flanigan floundered due to the \r\n\r\nvisible taint of Jack Abramoff.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n

\r\nA year later, McNulty was elevated to the right hand of neo-con crime chief of Alberto Gonzales \r\n\r\n(US Attorney General) as a direct quid pro quo<\/i> for securing the release of Franklin and \r\n\r\nFeith from prison. While on the government payroll, Douglas Feith continued to draw a retainer \r\n\r\nof $60,000\/year\r\nfrom the law firm of Fieth and Zell while his partner, Zell, worked actively to undermine the \r\n\r\nCamp David accord. Perhaps this answers the question that Arianna Huffington asked several months ago: \"Where Have All the Architects of War Gone?\"<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\r\nDouglas Fieth and other neocons performed a vanishing act when investigations of middle-east\r\ndeceit became a danger to the Bush administration.
\r\nIntrigues involving neocon insider Fieth have been elucidated previously in \r\n\r\nDOGSPOT, and James Bamford eventually released a comprehensive report in The \r\n\r\nRolling Stone.\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\nHarman Betrayed the Party of the People\r\n\r\n

In contrast the the party of AIPAC and it's militant Israeli sponsers, The Democratic party - \r\n\r\nthe party of the people - is the party that can balance the budget while taking care of the poor \r\n\r\nthe, sick and the elderly, starting here at home, where we can show the world an example of \r\n\r\nfunctioning democracy before we try to foist it upon unwilling foreigners, like the Iraqis, who \r\n\r\nare called insurgents when they fail to cooperate with our blueprint of Empire.<\/p>

\r\nThe current operational blueprint was coded, in part, by Larry Franklin in secret meetings prior \r\n\r\nto 9\/11 which were attended by representatives of AIPAC and luminaries such as Ahmad Chalabi and \r\n\r\nMichael Ledeen while Franklin was being followed by the FBI<\/b>. The FBI was acting on a tip \r\n\r\nthat Franklin was in possesion of sensitive documents that were not to leave the US. Details can \r\n\r\nbe found in his indictment. It is important to note that Michael Ledeen has for a long time been \r\n\r\nthe right hand man of none other than Karl Rove, and held meeting in Paris with renegade elements \r\n\r\nof the Italian intelligence agency SISMI that are related to the cooking of false intelligence to \r\n\r\nstart a war with Iraq. SISMI is currently under investigation by the newly elected government in \r\n\r\nItaly.<\/p>\r\n

\r\nMeanwhile, back at the ranch, the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee was \r\n\r\nrepeatedly welcomed to sit in on meetings where democracy was compromised both at home and \r\n\r\nabroad.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

Perhaps it is time for Ms Harman to direct her gaze away from those brave intelligence people \r\n\r\nwho would aid a foriegn power in the bulldozing of entire neighborhoods and turn torward those \r\n\r\nwho are truly in need. When she retires, I'm certain that she will not welcome the surprise of \r\n\r\nfinding that social security has been looted to fund unending warfare. She looks like she's been \r\n\r\ntortured far too long, and her political career has driven her to take too much money from the \r\n\r\nwrong people (AIPAC). She should spare herself and the rest of us from further suffering and \r\n\r\nretire to make room for a \"progressive\" Democrat like Marcy Winograd.<\/p>\r\n

\r\nThis was written online for DOGSPOT, and sources mentioned above have been mirrored elswhere on \r\n\r\nthe site.<\/p>\r\n-giraudoux

\r\nDOGSPOT<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/electromagnet.us\/dogspot\/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=451","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/html","summary":"<\/A>Nancy Pelosi was much more diplomatic than I will be in opposition to Jane Harman's bid for the chair of the House Intelligence Committee. Here's a picture of Ms. Harman without the redeye of a cheap flashbulb photog: a professional shot that reveals her as a deer in the headlights of the Neocons, as she sings the praises of what a "great job our intelligence people are doing in spite of great obstacles". Obstacles like Stud Terkel's lawsuit against AT&T, for instance, for helping the NSA spy on you and your neighbors.\r\nUPDATED 12-04-06<\/A>","numcomment":3,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2006\/12\/190083.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":190422,"heading":"Lies by Roknich","article":"\r\nThe following statements directed at and against Sosbee by Mr. David Roknich are lies, and\/or are 'abusive': \r\n\r\n"Have a Good Laugh with Geral Sosbee \r\nI wouldn't waste the minimal bandwidth this requires except that I got a belly laugh from this character. He is well known by sysadmins for his waste of bandwidth, ad hominim attacks, and abusive. \r\n... he constantly posts many messages on the same topics, responds to himself, does not generate any debate.... \r\nHe has decided that my constructive criticism of his ineffective communication style, and my (Activism 101) tip that he should start a local group is grounds to insult me. \r\nIn general, Geral is treating this as his own private forum to preach. \r\nGeral has been banned from other boards for similar behavior." \r\n"He is probably one of the reasons I've had to disable open posting on my site. " \r\n\r\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------- \r\nSosbee writes- careful not pop a hernia due to your excessive 'belly laugh' which is more appropriate in the barnyard with the pigs than on a public forum where you now attempt to abuse your intended victim with your pretentious gibberish. \r\n\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.sosbeevfbi.com \r\n9564593024 \r\nfascist uSA \r\nhttp:\/\/portland.indymedia.org\/en\/2006\/12\/3...","author":"geral sosbee","parent_id":190083,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-12-13 23:45:19","modified":"2006-12-13 23:45:19","fileurl":""}]}