We won: Time to burn some heretics.
So Harman has a history of defending the administration’s illegal intelligence activities. She was among the most gullible and/or deceitful when it came to disseminating the administration’s most extreme (and most inaccurate) intelligence claims to “justify” the invasion of Iraq. She supports the administration’s efforts to criminally investigate, if not prosecute, journalists who reveal illegal intelligence activities on the part of the President (including illegal activities about which Harman knew but said nothing).
I don’t know about you, but I need to breathe into a paper bag after just reading that paragraph. I can’t imagine how Glen felt after writing it. And there’s much more such prose at the link, all of it equally electrifying. Meanwhile, feeding Jane Harman - the Democratic alternate to disgraced federal judge and current Congressman Alcee Hastings - into the wood chipper receives the grateful approbation from all around the left-hand side of the blogosphere.
I don’t really have a dog in this hunt. If Nancy Pelosi feels like the only way to satisfy a significant block within her party is to push Hastings in front of Harman, more power to her - he most likely won’t do any more damage to national security as Intelligence Committee chairman than he could have done if so inclined as a senior member in the minority. Not only is it traditionally a very bipartisan committee, there’s no compelling reason to believe that his Miami Vice-style venality will be any more dangerous in the new position.
Still, I find it interesting that a hard core “centrist” like Greenwald feels the need to go to the mattresses against Harman because she believed - like everyone else did all throughout the 90’s - that Saddam Hussein presented a threat, in favor of a man with serious moral baggage like Hastings.
It’s all about priorities, I guess.
Sometimes I wonder what these folks are going to write about, once W walks off into the sunset.
5 responses so far ↓
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SeniorD
// Nov 28, 2006 at 5:14 am
Cap’n,
The only thing that differentiates us from the people of the Tower of Babel is that we still speak the same language. It appears to me that, like the people of the Tower, ideas and concepts some accept while others won’t or can’t. Speaker-elect Pelosi is one who is pushing an agenda of ideas and concepts a large segment of the population seems to reject. That she is elected and served by like-minded individuals only accentuates the differences.
To call Rep. Hastings ‘disgraced’ implies he regrets the actions that led to his judicial impeachment. Quite the contrary, he struts around like a Baron and has shown no remorse. He, too, shares the ideas fronted by the Speaker-elect, her political party and the sycophantic media.
Sadly, I have nothing but the lowest of expectations for Congress in the coming years.
On another note:
GO NAVY! BEAT ARMY!
2 TIM C // Nov 28, 2006 at 6:31 am
My problem with Rep. Hastings is, how in the world with his legal problems with the hint of bribery can he be afforded a Security Clearance that would be commensurate with the Chairmanship of the Intelligence Committee.
I am by no means a Security or Military Intelligence expert, but if it were any Joe Citizen, they would not be afforded a Security Clearance at all.
If he does get the job, than the Democrats have just washed away any credibity and can not claim any moral high ground on ethics.
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jpr
// Nov 28, 2006 at 11:59 am
Just read somewhere that it looks like Hastings is out of the running for Intel Chair.
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lex
// Nov 28, 2006 at 12:47 pm
Looks like that’s confirmed, JPR.
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jpr
// Nov 28, 2006 at 1:59 pm
So much for another Battle of Hastings! Ha Ha!
Sorry, couldn’t help it…it was right there, I had to.
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