Californian Congresswoman Jane Harman
There’s been plenty of coverage of the Jane Harman wiretap ‘scandal’, not only on the blogosphere but also in the mainstream media.
That fact alone makes me a little suspicious. Here’s an extract from the (Murdoch-owned) Times of London: Wiretap scandal of leading Democrat ‘who lobbied for Israeli spies’:
A prominent Democratic Congresswoman was embroiled last night in a growing scandal involving government wiretaps and her relationship with two alleged Israeli spies.
Jane Harman, a California Democrat with long involvement in US intelligence matters, was allegedly recorded by a Bush administration wiretap promising an Israeli agent that she would intervene on behalf of two pro-Israel lobbyists charged in the US with spying.
In return for pledging to use her influence to get the charges against the two men reduced, Ms Harman, a pro-Israeli hawk, was allegedly told by the unidentified agent that he would put pressure on senior Democrats to get her appointed to a top Congressional intelligence post.
Allegations that Ms Harman had inappropriately used her influence to aid the two employees of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the powerful Israeli lobby group, surfaced in 2006. What is new is the claim that she had been caught on a National Security Agency (NSA) wiretap discussing a “quid pro quo” deal on the case.
The alleged wiretap, reported by the political journal Congressional Quarterly, occurred because the NSA had been targeting telephone calls made by the Israeli agent during an investigation of AIPAC. In 2006 it was reported that Ms Harman was the subject of an FBI investigation over her involvement with the hawkish Israeli lobby group…
That’s about as far down an article as most readers get, so I’ll stop there…
Incredible news, unbelievable liars
Remember, this is from a News Ltd source. In the USA, other major media organizations with a strong Zionist bias have also run the story.
I’d say it’s froth and doubt it will lead anyhere, or that there’ll be any serious punishment of notorious Israel-firster Jane Harman. Indeed, I suspect she’ll end up publicly ‘vindicated’.
The real goal of this ‘exposé’ is probably to mislead people into believing there is aggressive monitoring of potential Israeli agents in Congress and elsewhere. It helps create the impression that the US intelligence agencies work hard to protect American interests – and that the US body politic is well defended from Israeli influence.
The NSA: has it really saved America from Zionist penetration?
I don’t buy it. The US Congress is stuffed with pro-Israel stooges. If the NSA was seriously monitoring for pro-Israel wheeling and dealing – and these stories were getting through to the public through via leaks like this – we’d have a dozen similar stories each day.
Beware the self-appointed Masters of Discourse! Even their ‘exposes’ and ‘revelations’ may be acts of deception.
That’s not to say, of course, that everyone in Washington is an Israeli stooge. There certainly are centres of opposition to the blatant betrayal of American interests to a foreign power. President Obama’s own personal position is far from clear.
But to imagine that this case is the most serious recent instance of the betrayal of American interests to Israel is to live in fantasyland, which is precisely where the western mass media likes to keep us.
Incidentally, Jane Harman is not only a rabid Zionist who promotes illegal wars against Israel’s perceived enemies. She’s seriously loopy too.
Jane Harman: lives in fantasyland, frets about virtual terrorism
Harman recently claimed to the US House of Representatives Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet that “Islamic militants are suspected of using Second Life, the Internet virtual world, to hunt for recruits and mimic real life terrorism”.
Perhaps she’s fears a militant might swoop out of her flatscreen one day and steal her wig?
I for one would be keen to pull it off, as soon as the technology is sufficiently advanced – and if I ever encounter the war-mongering bitch in cyberspace, I’ll set my virtual dog on her.
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POSTSCRIPT: Mondoweiss says Ms Harman is Jewish. I didn’t realize that detail had been left out of most mainstream media reports, but Phil Weiss claims it was.
Some fascinating comments follow his article. Here’s one that caught my eye:
I begin to feel that the only answer is to play things safe and bar Jews from public office.
As a Jew, that wouldn’t trouble me in the least. We’ll lose the wise council of Joe Leiberman, Douglas Feith, Elliot Abrams. Nothing to lose sleep over, in my view.
That will allow smart Jews to continue their meteoric rise in physics and cosmology, literature, etc and keep Jewish riff raff from further perverting our system.
I’m kidding.
But not completely.
It must be annoying for a first-class astrophysicist, jazz musician or whatever to feel tarred with the same brush as criminal maniacs.
On the other hand, we shouldn’t forget that most of the Zionist stooges who pack the Parliaments of the western world aren’t Jewish. They’re non-Jews who go along to get along.
Personally, I’d sooner put my trust in the commentator above than toadies like George Bush, Tony Blair, Angela Merkel, Stephen Harper, John Howard etc etc.
