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• Warrantless Wiretapping?  Carry On

  Published: October 9, 2007, 7:13 am

  Tags: Fisa, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, George W Bush, John Rockefeller, Jane Harman

  Nancy Pelosi and Jane Harman, or George Bush?  The "temporary" legislation was passed under the cloud of a false intelligence report that said al-Qaeda was planning an attack on Congress.  Where are the questions about the origin of that claim?  And every request, including Senate subpoenas for information and

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• White House Fights Democratic Changes to Surveillance Act

  Published: October 11, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: White, House, Fights, Democratic, Changes, Surveillance, Act, George W Bush, United States, The White House, Jane Harman, Ellen Nakashima, Steny Hoyer, Al Qaeda, American Civil Liberties Union, Iraq, U S Republican Party

  President Bush and other Republicans stepped up their attacks on Democratic legislation that would require more oversight of surveillance within U.S. borders that is directed at foreign targets, escalating a partisan battle over the boundaries of U.S. spying.

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• The Talk Shows

  Published: October 21, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: The, Talk, Shows, Arkansas, Massachusetts, Cable News Network Lp Lllp, Cbs Corporation, National Cable Satellite Corporation, Nbc Universal Inc, Ali Al Dabbagh, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Garry Kasparov, Jane Harman, John Mccain, Joseph Biden, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Pete

  Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

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• The Sunday Morning Talk Shows - The Review

  Published: October 21, 2007, 2:10 pm

  Tags: Jane Harman, Joe Biden, John Mccain, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Pete Hoekstra, Special Features, Talk Shows

  LE, Wolf Blitzer interviewed Jane Harman and Pete Hoekstra. Both suggested that Pyongyang might be involved in helping Syria to develop nukes, thus prompting last week's air strike from Israel. Both stated that President Bush should not have gone all bellicose with Tehran, threatening them with World War II if they developed nukes. Hoekstra

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• Weary, Wary Lawmakers See Compromise as Way Forward

  Published: October 30, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Weary, Wary, Lawmakers, See, Compromise, Way, Forward, Iraq, U S Republican Party, George W Bush, Harry Reid, Iowa, Michigan, Chuck Grassley, Doc Hastings, Elizabeth Dole, George Voinovich, Hillary Clinton, James Webb, Jane Harman, Jim Manley, John Boehner, Max Baucus, Nancy

  For most of the year, congressional Democrats have been uncompromising on issues including the Iraq war and expanded health insurance for poor children, believing that public opinion favored them and that Republicans would break with President Bush. But the GOP held firm and Congress's approval r...

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• Weary, Wary Lawmakers See Compromise as Way Forward

  Published: October 30, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Weary, Wary, Lawmakers, See, Compromise, Way, Forward, Iraq, U S Republican Party, George W Bush, Harry Reid, Iowa, Michigan, Chuck Grassley, Doc Hastings, Elizabeth Dole, George Voinovich, Hillary Clinton, James Webb, Jane Harman, Jim Manley, John Boehner, Max Baucus, Nancy

  For most of the year, congressional Democrats have been uncompromising on issues including the Iraq war and expanded health insurance for poor children, believing that public opinion favored them and that Republicans would break with President Bush. But the GOP held firm and Congress's approval r...

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• Milk Carton: Have you seen this Constitution?

  Published: October 31, 2007, 3:14 pm

  Tags: Fisa, Jane Harman, George W Bush

  Jane Harman sez: For those like me who insist that the President’s domestic surveillance program must comply fully with the Constitution and the 4th Amendment, the only way for Congress to get there is with a veto-proof majority.  That's why I'm working with Republicans.  Got a better idea? I don't know if I have a better

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• Protest at UCLA against Rep. Jane Harman's Genocide Denial

  Published: November 10, 2007, 6:55 pm

  Tags: Society, Armenian Genocide, Jane Harman

  campus, by US Representative Jane Harman (D-CA-36) this Saturday, November 10th. The Protest will begin at 5 pm. While She is visiting the campus to accept the Jacoby International Award, her recent actions in opposition to H.Res.106, the Armenian Genocide resolution, have provoked outrage from a broad cross section of community leaders and

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• Hill Briefed on Waterboarding in 2002

  Published: December 9, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Hill, Briefed, Waterboarding, 2002, Central Intelligence Agency, United States, Nancy Pelosi, Jay Rockefeller, Abu Zubaida, George W Bush, Jane Harman, Michael Hayden, The White House, Russ Feingold, Al Qaeda, U S Republican Party, California, Bob Graham, Capitol Hil

  In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. For more than an hour, the bipartisan group, which included current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was...

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• Hill Briefed on Waterboarding in 2002

  Published: December 9, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Hill, Briefed, Waterboarding, 2002, Central Intelligence Agency, United States, Nancy Pelosi, Jay Rockefeller, Abu Zubaida, George W Bush, Jane Harman, Michael Hayden, The White House, Russ Feingold, Al Qaeda, U S Republican Party, California, Bob Graham, Capitol Hil

  In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. For more than an hour, the bipartisan group, which included current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was...

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• Hill Briefed on Waterboarding in 2002

  Published: December 9, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Hill, Briefed, Waterboarding, 2002, Central Intelligence Agency, United States, Nancy Pelosi, Jay Rockefeller, Abu Zubaida, George W Bush, Jane Harman, Michael Hayden, The White House, Russ Feingold, Al Qaeda, U S Republican Party, California, Bob Graham, Capitol Hil

  In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. For more than an hour, the bipartisan group, which included current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was...

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• Newsflash

  Published: December 9, 2007, 3:56 pm

  Tags: Jay Rockefeller, Rule Of Law, Jane Harman, Counterterror, Silvestre Reyes, Jose Rodriguez Jr, Nancy Pelosi, Torture, Human Rights, Democratic Party, Intelligence, Security, Kabuki, Cia, Congress

  whistle. Well, sort of: [Jane] Harman, who replaced Pelosi as the committee's top Democrat in January 2003, disclosed Friday that she filed a classified letter to the CIA in February of that year as an official protest about the interrogation program. Harman said she had been prevented from publicly discussing the letter or the CIA's program

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• Panel Rejects Oversight for Theme Parks

  Published: December 14, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Panel, Rejects, Oversight, For, Theme, Parks, Ed Markey, Jane Harman, Cliff Stearns, Bobby Rush, Elizabeth Williamson, John Dingell, U S Consumer Product Safety Commission, U S House Committee On Energy And Commerce, United States

  The House Energy and Commerce Committee yesterday rejected a measure to subject amusement park rides to federal monitoring but promised a first-ever hearing on the issue.

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• Panel Rejects Oversight for Theme Parks

  Published: December 14, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Panel, Rejects, Oversight, For, Theme, Parks, Ed Markey, Jane Harman, Cliff Stearns, Bobby Rush, Elizabeth Williamson, John Dingell, U S Consumer Product Safety Commission, U S House Committee On Energy And Commerce, United States

  The House Energy and Commerce Committee yesterday rejected a measure to subject amusement park rides to federal monitoring but promised a first-ever hearing on the issue.

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• CIA in 2003 Planned Destruction of Tapes

  Published: January 4, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Cia, 2003, Planned, Destruction, Tapes, Jane Harman, Scott W Muller, Central Intelligence Agency, Abu Zubaida, John Helgerson, Abd Al Rahim Al Nashiri, George W Bush, Joby Warrick, Jose Rodriguez Cia Official, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Michael Hayden, Michael Mukasey

  A key member of Congress disclosed yesterday that the CIA said in February 2003 that it planned to destroy videotapes of harsh interrogations after the agency's inspector general finished probing the episodes, an account that adds detail to recent CIA statements about the circumstances surrounding...

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