Can We Have Someone Beside Jane Harman, the AIPAC Princess For Intelligence Chair?

[JCMach1]

Is there anyone else? If Hastings is not to be considered... I don't entirely buy that argument either. His impeachment was largely a setup.





While reportedly under investigation for her ties to an influential pro-Israel lobbying organization, California Rep. Jane Harman last month hosted a private dinner for the group that was attended by two top Bush administration officials—Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte and Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff...

The Sept. 13 dinner took place at the home of Harman, the ranking Democrat on the House Select Committee on Intelligence, and was attended by over 120 top financial backers of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). The highlight of the evening was a panel discussion in which Harman played the host, questioning Negroponte and Chertoff about Mideast developments, international terrorism and homeland-security issues, according to an AIPAC official.

The dinner was hardly an unusual one for AIPAC. The group often arranges such elite pow-wows at the homes of senior members of Congress and government officials (one in the mid-1990s was hosted by then Vice President Al Gore) as a way for AIPAC to both demonstrate its political clout and to provide a perk for major donors.

But last month’s event raises new questions about recent reports that the FBI was investigating whether Harman, an outspoken supporter of Israel, last year may have agreed to improperly influence an ongoing Justice Department probe of AIPAC. The reports of the probe came just a few days after Harman released a politically sensitive House report that included important new details about the investigation surrounding the activities of disgraced former GOP Rep. Randy (Duke) Cunningham... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15419753/site/newsweek/

[Greeby]

1. Pelosi wants Harman gone and the CBC is breathing down her neck

To get one of theirs into the top spot. Ain't easy pleasing everybody

[DisgruntledVet]

2. Reyes

Word on the Hill is Silvestre Reyes will get it.

[oc2002]

7. that would probably be a far beter choice than Hastings, who is a crook in my book.

I do not care that he won his re-elections, he is still a crook.

[JCMach1]

3. Who besides Harman, or Hastings???

[Cocoa]

4. Silvestre Reyes from Texas

is mentioned as a third option. I know nothing about him.

[yebrent]

6. Reyes is the third ranking member

just behind Harman, or Hastings. He would also be the only Hispanic Committee Chair.

[oasis]

14. Hispanics should have more representation in Dem leadership. I'd give Reyes

the nod.

[oc2002]

5. Harman is a traitor.

anyone siding with her is a traitor.

[Freddie Stubbs]

8. How exactly was Hastings' impeachment a 'setup?'

And if it was a 'setup,' why did the Democratic controlled House vote 413 to 3 to impeach him?

[JCMach1]

9. He was acquitted in the Criminal Case

:(

[Freddie Stubbs]

10. They why did the Democratic controlled House almost unanimously

vote to impeach him?

[Parisle]

11. When I think of AIPAC,....

---- I think of Douglas Feith, the PNAC'er who ran the crooked Office of Special Planning for cherrypicking misleading intelligence in the run-up to war on Iraq. I think of Israeli spying and meddling in our foreign policy. I sure as hell do not think of anything good. Anyone having anything to do with AIPAC has no place in the government that is supposed to challenge and reverse the Bush fiasco.

[Behind the Aegis]

12. Has she been found guilty of misdeeds?

[Freddie Stubbs]

13. She hasn't been impeached and convicted