Talk show host Michael Savage continues his rant on the Jewish power corruption in Washington.  First, he describes the dealings of Senator Dianne Feinstein and her husband Richard Blum, in which Feinstein has been working to float taxpayer money to her husband’s investment company for at least the last nine years.  Secondly, he talks about Congresswoman Jane Harman’s role in collaborating with officials from the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).  In 2006, AIPAC offered Harman political favors in return for her lobbying efforts.  Her task was to pursue the reduction of espionage penalties placed on two Jewish AIPAC spies.  Being Jewish himself, Savage is able to talk freely about stories involving AIPAC without fear of the usual criticism.

In October 2006, Time magazine, quoting anonymous sources, asserted that an FBI and US Department of Justice investigation of Harman was underway. The magazine alleged that Harman had agreed to lobby the Department of Justice to reduce espionage charges against Steve J. Rosen and Keith Weissman, two officials at the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). In exchange, Time said there was a quid pro quo in which AIPAC would lobby then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to appoint Harman as chair of the House Intelligence Committee if the Democrats captured the House after the 2006 elections. Harman, the FBI, the Justice Department and Pelosi’s office have all denied knowledge of or involvement with any investigation.[10] AIPAC denied it had engaged in a quid pro quo with Harman. “AIPAC would never engage in a quid pro quo in relation to a federal investigation or any federal matter and the notion that it would do so is preposterous,” a spokesperson said at the time.[10]

In April 2009, CQ Politics, also quoting anonymous sources, said Harman had been captured on a National Security Agency wiretap prior to the 2006 elections, telling an “Israeli agent” that she would “waddle into” lobbying the Department of Justice on the AIPAC case. Harman ended the phone call, according to CQ, by saying, “This conversation doesn’t exist.”[11] Harman denied the allegations, saying: “These claims are an outrageous and recycled canard, and have no basis in fact. I never engaged in any such activity. Those who are peddling these false accusations should be ashamed of themselves.”[12]

According to CQ, then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales pressed CIA Director Porter Goss to drop the agency’s investigation of Harman, because the Bush administration wanted Harman to support them during the NSA warrantless surveillance controversy, about to break in The New York Times.[10] Gonzales and Goss declined to comment.[11] 

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