[Peace-discuss] Greenwald: "Jane Harman: Angry, partisan, civil liberties extremist"

[C. G. Estabrook]

I think the interesting question remains why this matter is leaked at this 
moment.  The explanation by the reporter who broke the story seems particularly 
weak:

"...there seemed to be as much interest in the timing of my story as the facts 
in it ... I was asked about it a couple of times during an online chat Monday at 
CQ Politics.

     'Claire from Washington DC: Why are your sources coming forward now? There 
must be some reason why they have waited almost three years.

     'Me: Thanks. I've seen a lot of speculation about that online. The fact is, 
there is no "timing" to any "leak." No sources "came forward," so to speak. I 
learned about this quite a while ago and was just recently able to turn my full 
attention to it. Total coincidence.

     'Sandy from Brooklyn: Why is all this stuff coming out now?

     'Me: No special reason. The story was not "planted" on me to influence any 
other events -- in particular the looming AIPAC trial or things related to the 
NSA's warrantless wiretapping program. I've known about it for some time but 
just not been able to pull it together until now for various reasons...'"

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/spytalk/2009/04/harman-aipac-nsa-what-did-i-kn.html?referrer=js


Robert Naiman wrote:
> Priceless.
> http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/21/harman/index.html
>