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Why make Jane Harman intel chair when she helped Bush shred the Constitution on warrantless surveillance?

Sun, 11/19/2006 - 8:48pm — lambert

Lest we forget:

Harman, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, remained silent for over a year after being briefed on the Bush administration’s violation of federal wiretapping law (FISA) and recently told “Meet the Press” that she deplores the New York Times for informing the American people that the Bush Administration ignored the law.

We're in the midst of a slow-moving, long-running Constitutional crisis, where the authoritarians in the White House and the Republican party have, in large part, freed themselves from the restraints of Constitutional authority, and are governing as despots, in an extra-legal fashion.

Jane Harmon either doesn't understand that, or is enabling it. Either way, she shouldn't be chair.

Please, Nancy--do the right thing!

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