Comments on: Dem Rep Harman Did Urge Times Not To Publish Wiretapping Expose!

By: julianazac

julianazac — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:57:58 +0000

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By: Gus W

Gus W — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:46:12 +0000

Wake up call: Congressional Democrats are just as corrupt as anti-populist as Republicans.

There are many, many Democrats in Congress who refuse to stand against the war and who aided in the erosion of our civil liberties, going right to the top. You can lump Harmon in with Pelosi, the Blue Dogs and so many others including my Congressman Eliot Engel.

By: barbara

barbara — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:45:48 +0000

Hi, jane harman should move over to the conservative republican side. she doesn’t fit well with the Democrats. Besides do we need an Israelie lobbist as one of our representatives? Barb

By: jimmy driver

jimmy driver — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:08:44 +0000

How great! beloved evidence.
what’s really cool, however, is that if Harman was running for Prez, then Kerry would have done the same thing to her.
Repugnantcans and Dumbercrats.
How can Harman remain in congress after this. she should resign and hpe for the best. i can only guess what Rove would do if this was all reversed. Add to the carnage, Senator Feinstein long overdue comeuppance. The Dubers have to clean hose even tho’ their majority is fragile.
They have more, worse, and nastier in the wings. Wanna bet on Harry Reid going down, anyone?
* years of mush turns out to be 8 years of selfishness rivalling any Ayn Randian honkie capitalist lobbyist.
I can’t wait to see the movie where harmon, reid, abromoff, feinstein, and madoff are sitting ’round the pocer table at Lompoc. DiFi is asking anyone who’ll listen in her dizzy Miss Losingit way, “All those trips to Korea! and all i thought was he was only ripping off the banking system!”
wonder whose kissing him now.
Frigging billionaires got no moral code….

By: Charles

Charles — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:10:31 +0000

Greg, your post seems ahead of the story.

* What was the date Harman talked to Taubman?
* Even if the conversation was before the election, could the article have appeared before the election, or was it still in preparation?
* Would NYT policy forbid publishing an expose that close to an election?
* Harman talked to Taubman. Did Taubman talk to Keller?

These are just some of the questions that would need to be answered before talking about “changing history.”

By: regulararmyfool

regulararmyfool — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:42:27 +0000

Love reading about politics. Democracy works like this, no democracy works like this, etc and forever. There is no democracy so stop slobbering all over it.

Jane and her hubby are the filty rich. Possibly the richest political organization in the world. Now take your democracy down to the city square, buy a beer in a sack and enjoy your share of the rewards of democracy. But don’t hold your breath waitin for democracy to break out.

By: Silent Majority

Silent Majority — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:04:55 +0000

Rosen/Weissman probably won’t make it to trial. I really hope, though, that the fog of Israeli-influence in America is lifted soon.

By: K

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:04:22 +0000

Big unanswered question: why is Ms. Harman still the only one in the spotlight when there were a bunch of them together in a group?

“Phil met with a group of congressional leaders familiar with the eavesdropping program, including Ms. Harman. They all argued that The Times should not publish.”

Who were the others in the group?

By: Kenneth E. Tucker

Kenneth E. Tucker — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:16:13 +0000

Talk about your ‘buried leads’ !!

A 2004 reminder: 50,000 votes in OHIO was the difference folks. Ya think illegal surveillance would have made a diff ?!

With ‘friends’ like this, we (the (dem) people’) don’t need enemies (to ‘hang’).

We can start by hoisting her on her own (NSA wiretap) petard now and finishing her off with a primary challenge in ‘10 and replacing her traitorous *** in NOV ‘10.

She sold out the country and her party for a committee chair…

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:21:02 +0000

Booyah!

Just read it. It doesn’t deny that she attempted to influence the decision (only that she was not ultimately an influence in the decision). And it does not even deny that she spoke to Keller (only that he doesn’t recall it), even if we accept that is a key question. It is not a denial, period.

That was me, yesterday commenting on the Keller “denial” reported here that Yglesias played up. Get that weak-*** **** outta here, Keller!

By: Professor Smartass

Professor Smartass — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:46:26 +0000

Further proof that so-called “moderate” Democrats are only moderate about representing their constituents but are fanatical about being corrupt.

By: Emilio

Emilio — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:58:06 +0000

Everyone paying attention to what had been taking place in our country ought to have known that the Bush criminals had something over the heads of some highly placed Democrats. Jane Harman is one those highly placed individuals who was forever giving in to whatever the criminals wanted. I hope that one day the Democratic Party will be cleansed of people like Harman, Pelosi, Reid, Nelson (both of them), and the other conservatives masquerading as Democrats. Guess the Antrax attack on Leahy and Daschle was a warning shot across the bows of anyone who resisted the implementation of the (un)Patriot Act. Both Bush and Cheney should be held accountable for the evils they’ve visited on this nation. Also, we have not had an unimpeded investigation of the World Trade Center demolition. My opinion does not matter, but there were too many unresolved questions surrounding the various events of September 11. Far from being a clarion cry for the Repugs, September 11, 2001 should be a day of disgrace for them. I hope the DOJ will vigorously prosecute the torture memo collaborators, and in so doing uncover other criminal activities those bozos initiated.

By: goethean

goethean — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:49:34 +0000

If we had gotten Kerry in, we wouldn’t have gotten Obama.

By: melior

melior — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:37:40 +0000

With regard to some of the mental gymnastics above trying to find a way to interpret Harman as squeaky clean in this whole tangled saga, one thing still missing is some way to understand her final comment in the original report of the wiretapped call, “This conversation doesn’t exist.”

Perhaps she would like to clear the air on this bit in particular?

By: Magic Dog

Magic Dog — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:18:49 +0000

This goes to show how pervasive the influence of Israel’s agents has become in both parties, and the commanding heights of the media. It’s the elephant in the living room that no one wants to discuss in any direct way.