CQ has more on the Harman wiretap story: Source says Pelosi went ballistic over Fundraising threat

[sabra]

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/spytalk/2009/04/source-wiretap-caught-harman-d.html

Source: Wiretap Caught Harman Discussing Pelosi Fundraising Flap

By Jeff Stein

California Democrat Jane Harman, battling a controversy over her interactions with a suspected Israeli spy, was overheard on a 2005 wiretap discussing a failed fundraising ploy designed to get her named chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, according to a former national security official who has read the transcript.

Harman was heard lamenting to the suspected Israeli agent how the tactics of a major Jewish fundraiser to use the threat of withholding political donations to California Democrat Nancy Pelosi to win Harman the gavel of the House Select Committee on Intelligence had badly backfired, the former official said.

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Harman and the target of the NSA intercept mutually rued the tactics of Saban, a major Democratic donor, to influence Pelosi, said the former national security official.

The former official, who has provided accurate information on Harman's intercepted conversations, did so only on the condition of anonymity because the material remains highly classified.

In the wiretapped conversation, the target was heard telling Harman that "Pelosi went ballistic" when Saban allegedly warned her that if Harman were not made chairman of the Intelligence Committee after the 2006 elections "'you'll get no more contributions from me,'" according to the former official's paraphrase of the conversation.

[Captain Hilts]

1. Politics ain't beanbag. nt

[Demeter]

3. More Like Beanball!

[Captain Hilts]

4. High and tight!

[annabanana]

2. interesting. .

I sure would love to hear those tapes. .