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Representative Jane Harman '69 (D-CA) has come to be at the center of a controversy regarding an inquiry into National Security Agency wiretaps of American citizens and allegations that members of the powerful American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) lobby group served as spies for Israel. The connection between the two incidents came as a media source indicated that a conversation of Harman's with the alleged spies was listened in on by the NSA. They asserted that she ended the call with the assertion that "this conversation doesn't exist".
The source added the information about the NSA wiretap to existing knowledge dating to 2006 of an FBI investigation into Harman. The FBI's concern was allegations that AIPAC officials who faced outing as possible Israeli spies asked her to intervene on their behalf with White House officials in exchange for the chairmanship of the House Intelligence Committee, which they claimed they could lobby House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to deliver to Harman.
The potential fallout of the allegations may be extremely damaging to Harman, who is a relatively conservative "Blue Dog Democrat" associated with favoring wiretapping, although never explicitly for using it on American citizens on American soil. Before revelations that wiretapping had potentially exceeded its legal boundaries under the direction of the Bush administration, Harman had been an advocate of wiretapping within the boundaries of Foreign Intelligence Security Act (FISA) legislation. At least one commentator has gone so far as to claim that the allegations that are currently circulating could have "career-ending" implications for the California representative, who entered office in 2001.
Harman's support for wiretapping was valuable to the Bush administration, which may have been what gave her leverage with the White House to begin with. Sources have also indicated that Alberto Gonzales '82, the then-Attorney General, pressed CIA director Porter Goss to drop its own investigation of Harman during a period of controversy over the wiretapping program.
My wife's father is hessaby as in www.hessaby.com (they stole his cash and put it there) and my mother-in-law family is related by marriage tot the Pakravans., who headed the SAVAKPan Am was nicknamed PanIran as the Shah's family was the largest shareholder. I have extreme amount of details of exactly was going on
from the Iranians wanting him to return their assets to other coup attempts to 6 months before the Shah son pretended he was bankrupt in a public trial, to my wifes relative coming to our house talking about the coup and we did not know they were in Washington DC, to the Iran Contra hearings trial that was going to start Feb 20 th, 1989 to the tipping of the coup to the Iranian govt, ,to something in writing I can prove the coup to the Salamon Rushtie Feb 14th insult to islam to get the people on the street to avoid the coup to the Iranian govt announcement of a coup by 'dissent mullahs' announced at the time to the negiotations between the Bush people involved pretending they were going to make a deal to the 'nice' stories plant in US newspapers at the time (including the Post) as part of the negotation to the fact the bomb had to placed out of London based on the flight path as I worked at USAir at the time creating the flight plans for the 'planes to fly themselves' to overt CIA agents around me at the time to the fact that Bollier, the guy who made the timer for the bomb's wide was IRANIAN and the Libyans told me and said they were not allowed to say... there were 3 witness only.. the main one was trashed.. Bollier and a guy whom said he soldm the Libyan a suitcase in Malta.. hence, one the suitcase guy would be left.. the Libyans did not put up a defence in exchange for evidence to trash the main witness on the stand to what an overt CIA agent told me in the US 4 years later.. etc. etc and the details of several coups to the new World bank (my wie's cousin involved who used to work at the work bank)and US loans starting May 1990 to Iran to the fact that PANAm was shut down 18 months later as they thought it would be targeted again because of the Shah connection (the US airlines go in and out of bankruptcy all the time - this was the one of the first US airlines - an ICON) etc
I also know where the Iranian govt officials have money in the US, Canada and UK; the back door dealing etccall me for details.. Barry Lanza 00 44 1786831554.. My father-in-law was a convicted spy given amnesty