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Congresswoman Overheard Peddling Influence in Exchange for Appointment Favors
[ This is an old story from 2009 but, frankly, too irresistible to pass up in light of further advances of the American Security State in last year three years. ]
In 2005 the NSA recorded (via wiretap) Congresswoman Harmen trading a sentence reduction for espionage charges against members of the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) for lobbying favors to become chair of the House Intelligence Committee.
The Congresswoman, Democrat Jane Harman, is outraged at the “abuse of power” in her conversations being intercepted though the action was court approved. Ironically Rep. Harman was a staunch advocate of the USA PATRIOT ACT, the very legislation which permitted such wiretapping, but seems to find its protention application to herself unsavory. The FBI pursued a further corruption charge against the Congresswoman but Attourney General Alberto Gonzales “pulled the plug” because he needed the Congresswoman’s public support for such wiretapping programs.
The lolz are thick and juicy here. Some choice quotes from the Congresswoman:
“I never had any idea that my government was wiretapping me at all!”
“I think this is an abuse of power Wolf!”
“I want to make sure members of Congress are not routinely wiretapped without their knowledge.”
29 January, 2012
Tagged as Congress House of Representation video Corruption Israel libery Security State
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perpetualcollapse reblogged this from ataxiwardance and added:
Or Colbert, but either way this...beyond pathetic. A prescient quote
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