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    You Just Can't Make This Stuff Up

    By DF on Wed, 04/22/2009 - 1:16am | Politics

    Submitted for your approval is this footage of Jane Harman on MSNBC:

    Seriously, I'm crying over here.  This is thoroughly magnificient stuff.

    If you haven't read the backstory yet, it's here.  TPM has this timeline.  In a nutshell: Harman, who was an ardent supporter of the Bush administration's wiretapping program, is now vociferously bitching about being wiretapped herself.  Better still is that she is crying foul at the reporting on the story after supposedly convincing the NYT to spike the NSA wiretapping story back in 2004.

    You just can't make this stuff up.

    UPDATE: I just watched it again.  It really gets me when, near the end, she gets into all that stuff about a gross abuse of power and how her rights as an American citizen have been violated (by an ostensibly legal investigation).  It's really touching.

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    putting aside the irony of the wiretapping support angle, shouldnt the AG release the tapes as she requested? id normally say it sounds odd that she would sound so confident of her innocence, but i've seen delusional politicians so many times nothing would surprise me.


    by Deadman on Wed, 04/22/2009 - 11:43am

    As I understand it, she was legally wiretapped as part of an investigation of the party or parties with whom she was speaking.  As such, I have no idea why she has any right to demand that the AG hand over the evidence in question (or why the AG would be able to compel the FBI and/or NSA to do so for that matter).


    by DF on Wed, 04/22/2009 - 7:13pm

    Her call for the tapes is a flat-out bluff, the same as Cheney's call for CIA reports showing torture "worked".  They're gambling the evidence can't or won't be released for legal or security reasons.  That gives them the talking point that the evidence exoneratiing them exists, but is suppressed.

    If you think the MSNBC interview is funny, you'll die in paroxysms if you listen to her self-contradicting interview on Monday's "All Things Considered" (NPR).  Twice, she questions whether the conversation ever took place.  Then she offers that if it did, she certainly has no memory of it.  A minute later she quibbles with the NYT source, asserting that the caller was an American citizen, not a foreign agent, which makes the tap illegal, she believes.  So.... she can't remember the alleged conversation, but she knows the caller was an American.  Har.  She sounded guilty from start to finish.


    by dzman (not verified) on Thu, 04/23/2009 - 4:01pm

    I heard her on NPR.  It was rich.


    by DF on Thu, 04/23/2009 - 6:28pm

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