[Al Arabiya Latest] A California Democratic congresswoman long involved in intelligence issues has come under fire after she allegedly promised to trade favors with the Jewish lobby in a phone conversation with suspected Israeli spies that was recorded by the National Security Agency as part of a wiretapping probe.
Rep. Jane Harman, 63, was accused of offering to "waddle into" in a Justice Department espionage investigation of Israel lobbyists and former officials of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in exchange for becoming the chair of the Intelligence Subcommittee.
Harman denied the charges and called on the NSA to release the full transcripts. "This abuse of power is outrageous and I call on your Department to release all transcripts and other investigative material involving me in an unredacted form," said Harman in a letter to the Justice department last week. "It is my intention to make this material available to the public." |