The Jane Harman incident is worth revisiting in the wake of years of feigned outrage about US elected officials purportedly acting as agents of foreign powers. Harman didn't merely argue for the dismissal of espionage charges against the AIPAC agents out of her reverence for Israel. The conversation she was recorded having was with an …
The Jane Harman incident is worth revisiting in the wake of years of feigned outrage about US elected officials purportedly acting as agents of foreign powers. Harman didn't merely argue for the dismissal of espionage charges against the AIPAC agents out of her reverence for Israel. The conversation she was recorded having was with an Israeli intelligence agent who promised that Israeli intelligence would use its "influence" to have her appointed as the chair of the House Intelligence Committee! A powerful, sitting US Congresswoman promising to use her power to intervene on behalf of a foreign power in a national security criminal prosecution for personal political gain.
The Jane Harman incident is worth revisiting in the wake of years of feigned outrage about US elected officials purportedly acting as agents of foreign powers. Harman didn't merely argue for the dismissal of espionage charges against the AIPAC agents out of her reverence for Israel. The conversation she was recorded having was with an Israeli intelligence agent who promised that Israeli intelligence would use its "influence" to have her appointed as the chair of the House Intelligence Committee! A powerful, sitting US Congresswoman promising to use her power to intervene on behalf of a foreign power in a national security criminal prosecution for personal political gain.