I wonder if this will make her rethink her support for massive wiretapping?

Yo! This is not the kind of story you see every day in a sober publications like Congressional Quarterly:

Sources: Wiretap Recorded Rep. Harman Promising to Intervene for AIPAC by Jeff Stein 04/19/09:

Rep. Jane Harman , the California Democrat with a longtime involvement in intelligence issues, was overheard on an NSA wiretap telling a suspected Israeli agent that she would lobby the Justice Department reduce espionage-related charges against two officials of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, the most powerful pro-Israel organization in Washington.

Harman was recorded saying she would "waddle into" the AIPAC case "if you think it'll make a difference," according to two former senior national security officials familiar with the NSA transcript.

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In exchange for Harman's help, the sources said, the suspected Israeli agent pledged to help lobby Nancy Pelosi , D-Calif., then-House minority leader, to appoint Harman chair of the Intelligence Committee after the 2006 elections, which the Democrats were heavily favored to win.

Just to be clear in light of the title I gave this post, the article specifies that this wiretap was "a court-approved NSA tap directed at alleged Israel covert action operations in Washington." It was not part of the broader discretionary NSA wirtapping that Harman controversially supported.

Tags: espionage, jane harman