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Originally Posted by dippin
So she is the victim here?
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no, that's a buncha crap. Even the DOJ has determined that she committed crimes, but Gonzales intervened because the Bush whitehouse wanted her credibility maintained since she was a democrat who spoke in favor of warrantless wiretapping.
This isn't an issue of lobbying other congresscritters trying to influence them. This is an issue of Harmon putting illegal pressure on the DOJ to back off of espionage charges against two members of the American/Israeli Public Affairs Committee, in exchange for which they'd try to get her a plum job in congress. It's illegal as hell, and she should be prosecuted for that.
She should also be drummed out of congress for being so in favor of warrantless wiretapping unless she's the victim of the wiretapping. I have little patience for hypocrites who think it's fine to oppress everyone else but who aren't willing to get in the Watched-By-Big-Brother line themselves.