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Hmmmm . . .

Her lips are moving . . .

Here's a little info I posted back in March 2006

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Now... You may wonder what other problem I may have with Ms. Jane Harman. It could be that she's been a shill for the oil industry interests for like maybe all her life... particularly Texaco-Chevron of California. Keep those spigots open and let's make sure that the transit fees keep ka-chinging through the off-loading platforms and pipelines sitting off the coast and running up to and through her wonderful home district of El Segundo, California. No doubt it is her responsibility to oversee the matters such as this, although this ongoing debacle in Iraq is NOT ABOUT THE OIL. Next...

The Blue Dog Coalition

Then there is the little itty-bitty matter of Ms. Harman being one tusk and a trunk shy of being a Republican. She's a very influential member of the sub-base of the the Blue Dog Coalition, a group of social and economic conservative Congressional Democrats. Now I don't mind a large tent for all kinds within the Democratic Party but I don't cotton to the elite wing requiring the lesser have-nots of the party to sit second banana in the nose bleed section eating cold paper wrapped hotdogs and drinking warm flat soda while they sit in the corporate tent suite being fed filet mignon off $500 china plates and sipping Dom Perignon from Waterford crystal. Next...

Meet the Press September 12, 2006

But to top it all off for me was the audacity of her lame attempt to bullsh!t the public with such an inane and misleading statement related to the NSA warrantless wiretap issue (does anyone remember this issue) as she did on the dog-and-pony show of Meet the Press two weeks ago with this gem:

MR. RUSSERT:  Congressman Harman, do you regret not having raised more reservations?

REP. HARMAN:  Well, I wish I’d been a lot smarter in those briefings about the legal underpinnings of the program. That was not discussed in the briefings. The briefings were about the operational details of the program and only in the last briefing because I requested it ahead—this was after the president had disclosed the existence of the program—did we spend an hour on the process, which was a very valuable discussion. The vice president and others were there. But remember, we go into those briefings alone, we have no ability to consult staff, we have no ability to consult constitutional experts or legal experts on the history of FISA. Since the program has been disclosed, I—and I think all of us, at least I have become a lot smarter about all that, and now that I have read the legislative history of FISA, which was enacted in 1978 on a bipartisan basis to cure the abuses of the Nixon era that had preceded it, I understand that it is the exclusive way that we can eavesdrop on Americans in America.

Now mind you, she did say she was a trained lawyer, but go a little further--and to expand on that--to see the totality of her background and knowledge on such issues. She is a graduate of Harvard University School of Law and was an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, and served as chief counsel and staff director for the United States Senate Judiciary subcommittee on constitutional rights, and was deputy secretary to the Cabinet at the White House (1977-1978). Wasn't FISA established in 1978? Blah blah blah blah... Yeah... She really needed her staff with her in those closed door sessions, not to mention constitutional experts to help her out on the FISA law and such... Right!

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She's bottled herself up and can't push the cork back out to free herself.

~OGD~