Comments on: Waddling Into Controversy: Harman Reportedly Intercepted in Quid Pro Quo Deal With AIPAC For the Chairmanship of the House Intelligence Committee http://jonathanturley.org/2009/04/21/waddling-into-controversy-harman-reportedly-intercepted-in-quid-pro-quo-deal-with-aipac-for-the-chairmanship-of-the-house-intelligence-committee/ Res ipsa loquitur ("The thing itself speaks") Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:48:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: seamus http://jonathanturley.org/2009/04/21/waddling-into-controversy-harman-reportedly-intercepted-in-quid-pro-quo-deal-with-aipac-for-the-chairmanship-of-the-house-intelligence-committee/#comment-48984 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:33:40 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=10194#comment-48984 I actually think you’ed have less standing as one of her constituents since, in a weird way, her successful graft may in someway benefit her district. It’s every U.S. citizen who’s own representative was potentially passed over in favor of Harmon or those reps themselves who sought a position on the committee legitimately who would seem to have a suit.

Really I think any private citizen should have standing. Several cases here in Illinois recently indicate that public office is a commodities that can be stolen, even if the work is being done properly once the crook is in office.

The real problem seems to be in bank-rolling such a suit, which is probly why you never see this happening. I believe one is entitled to treble damages in a privately raised RICO action but I don’t know one would start to calculate damages in this instance.

]]> By: Dianne Feinstein Dips Her Pen in the Company Ink http://jonathanturley.org/2009/04/21/waddling-into-controversy-harman-reportedly-intercepted-in-quid-pro-quo-deal-with-aipac-for-the-chairmanship-of-the-house-intelligence-committee/#comment-48956 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:03:11 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=10194#comment-48956 [...] and torture -programs that they reportedly knew about for years before made public. Now, Harman is facing a potential criminal allegation and Feinstein is tied up in a financial [...]

]]> By: Buddha Is Laughing http://jonathanturley.org/2009/04/21/waddling-into-controversy-harman-reportedly-intercepted-in-quid-pro-quo-deal-with-aipac-for-the-chairmanship-of-the-house-intelligence-committee/#comment-48730 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:11:15 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=10194#comment-48730 seamus,

I do like your style. But the issue is standing. Would I as a non-constituent of Jane “I’m A Whore For Israeli Spies” Harman have adequate standing to file?

]]> By: Matthew N http://jonathanturley.org/2009/04/21/waddling-into-controversy-harman-reportedly-intercepted-in-quid-pro-quo-deal-with-aipac-for-the-chairmanship-of-the-house-intelligence-committee/#comment-48711 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:12:27 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=10194#comment-48711 Congresswoman Harman was interviewed on NPR today. She sounded so slimy and evasive that I don’t have any doubt in my mind that something improper went on. She dodged every single question asked to her by the interviewer and refused to even acknowledge that these conversations existed or that she knew who they were with. I’m sure she will get away Scot free, but it will be interesting to see how much actually comes out. She claims to have asked AG Holder to release all transcripts without any redacted parts.

]]> By: seamus http://jonathanturley.org/2009/04/21/waddling-into-controversy-harman-reportedly-intercepted-in-quid-pro-quo-deal-with-aipac-for-the-chairmanship-of-the-house-intelligence-committee/#comment-48654 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:31:51 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=10194#comment-48654 I have serious doubts about the intestinal fortitude of the current administration, particularly Holder. I believe a private right to sue under RICO exists for any individual, and not necessarilly just someone in her district, since the committee she was trying to get on clearly represents the entire United States. I say we sue the bitch, God knows the Justice Department is unlikely to.

]]> By: Jill http://jonathanturley.org/2009/04/21/waddling-into-controversy-harman-reportedly-intercepted-in-quid-pro-quo-deal-with-aipac-for-the-chairmanship-of-the-house-intelligence-committee/#comment-48645 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:56:28 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=10194#comment-48645 The NYT confirms she asked them to hold the story before the 2004 election. Thank you so very much for your contribution to four more years of hell in the US, Jane.

]]> By: Mike Spindell http://jonathanturley.org/2009/04/21/waddling-into-controversy-harman-reportedly-intercepted-in-quid-pro-quo-deal-with-aipac-for-the-chairmanship-of-the-house-intelligence-committee/#comment-48624 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:27:07 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=10194#comment-48624 Google AIPAC for its’ leadership. Then Google the leadership to see where they’re coming from. They are a bunch of Right Wingers, in thrall to neoCons, whose representation of Israel’s interests is closely would together with their own prejudice. I’ve never given them a dime because this has been true for many years. However, like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson the MSM bestows leadership on their shoulders and various congresspeople kowtow. Three quarters of American Jews, of voting age, supported our new President, yet remember the MSM stories about the unwillingness of Jews to vote for him. These stories came from AIPAC honchos and were accepted as true.

]]> By: Anonymously Yours http://jonathanturley.org/2009/04/21/waddling-into-controversy-harman-reportedly-intercepted-in-quid-pro-quo-deal-with-aipac-for-the-chairmanship-of-the-house-intelligence-committee/#comment-48588 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:33:16 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=10194#comment-48588 Let me think, apparently that phrase has been lost in congress. If I get you this then I get this. Make sense to me.

Question, what self respecting, self effacing person of any moral character would want to be in Congress to begin with?

Makes me want to run, yeah right. Makes me want to be in Government. yeah right. Make me feel warm, fuzzy and safe knowing that a congresswoman is taking care of all of our most interrelated innate desires.

]]> By: rcampbell http://jonathanturley.org/2009/04/21/waddling-into-controversy-harman-reportedly-intercepted-in-quid-pro-quo-deal-with-aipac-for-the-chairmanship-of-the-house-intelligence-committee/#comment-48585 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:10:07 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=10194#comment-48585 There’s the old DC adage that one’s political career could only be permanently ruined if one is found with a dead woman or a live boy in one’s bed. My wife suspected years ago that J. Edgar Hoover’s ghost had dirt on everyone who could have blown the whistle on these illegal wiretaps and that that was what was protecting Bush/Cheney.

]]> By: Buddha Is Laughing http://jonathanturley.org/2009/04/21/waddling-into-controversy-harman-reportedly-intercepted-in-quid-pro-quo-deal-with-aipac-for-the-chairmanship-of-the-house-intelligence-committee/#comment-48576 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:54:13 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=10194#comment-48576 I ask again . . .

Why the Hell is AIPAC allowed to operate since they are known aiders and abettors of espionage? AIPAC offices should be shut down and filled with FBI agents this very moment as should Jane Harmon’s office.

Hey Jane! Who elected your sorry @*$? AMERICANS NOT ISRAELIS, that’s who you feckless, stupid piece of filth!

]]> By: Patty C http://jonathanturley.org/2009/04/21/waddling-into-controversy-harman-reportedly-intercepted-in-quid-pro-quo-deal-with-aipac-for-the-chairmanship-of-the-house-intelligence-committee/#comment-48562 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:46:25 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=10194#comment-48562 JT, shall we assume you were among the small circle of people who knew of her secret dealings – all this time…?

Representatives from CA (as well as NY) have often been suspect in my mind, but in the West, I admit being more focused on Pelosi and Feinstein plus her spouse, Richard Blum, frankly…

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