Rep. Jane Harman Focus In Yet Another Warrantless Wiretap Scandal

Many different sources are talking about the latest scandal surrounding the warrantless wiretapping program. Incriminating evidence against California rep. Jane Harman was apparently captured some time ago on a legal NSA wiretap. However, Attorney General Gonzales supposedly intervened to drop the case against her because (and this is where the irony meter explodes) Bush officials wanted her to be able to publicly defend the warrantless wiretap program. "Jane Harman, in the wake of the NSA scandal, became probably the most crucial defender of the Bush warrantless eavesdropping program, using her status as 'the ranking Democratic on the House intelligence committee' to repeatedly praise the NSA program as 'essential to US national security' and 'both necessary and legal.'"

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Rep Jane Harman...

[Anonymous Coward]

She must be a member of the Democrat Party because they aren't yelling from the roof tops "ITS A REPUBLICAN, ITS A REPUBLICAN!!!".

Re:Ranking Democratic?

[GodfatherofSoul]

It's a stupid word game the Republicans came up with that fits in with their DemocRAT motif. Anyone saying it sounds like a moron or a partisan hack. What annoys me is the way the main stream press doesn't correct it when a Republican hack does it.

Re:Treason

[jollyreaper]

I am sorry, but I really take offense to this comment. I am a conservative and all of my family and friends are conservative, and none of us are against welfare. We all believe that safety nets are needed because sometimes bad things do happen to people. If I had to guess, you are taking a few quotes from some fringe conservatives and sweeping the rest under the same brush.

What we don't like is the current welfare system that does not encourage people to get off the welfare system. The current system is broken and broken badly.

Thank you, you are different from the conservatives I usually talk to. I'm of the opinion that welfare is necessary but our current implementation is flawed. Usually a conservative criticizing welfare will claim he wants to make it work better but actually wants to simply get rid of it because the very concept infuriates his ideology. My dad is representative of the usual conservative I talk to -- complains bitterly about the spics and niggers on welfare who don't want to do a lick of goddamn work but does not see the irony when he's on social security with military retirement, some scraps of a phone company pension, using the VA and collecting that government check. Somehow the safety net that's keeping him off the streets is bad when it involves other people.

I agree with the poster below me who says the definition of conservative has been twisted beyond recognition, the same way that corrupt Dems in DC have mucked up liberalism, not that the right wing noise machine hasn't helped do violence to the word, using it with the same tone of disgust usually reserved for pedophiles and furries.