Ethics

Balko Nails Harman

By Ed Brayton

Balko has a pretty devastating post about Rep. Jane Harman. I'm sure by now you've heard that the NSA may have caught Harman on wiretaps offering a quid pro quo to two Israeli lobbyists (we don't know at this point if that's true, she denies it and the tape has not been produced). Balko notes that Harman has been a supporter of the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program:

Rep. Harman, who sits on the House Intelligence Committee, has long been an aggressive defender of the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program, calling federal whistleblowers who revealed the program's abuses "despicable," and at one point even suggesting criminal prosecution of the New York Times for revealing how the program may have been in violation of U.S. law.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on April 27, 2009 (boomark / email).