The Washington Post is reporting that:
Rep. Jane Harman vowed yesterday to clear her name after the revelation of a wiretapped conversation in which she reportedly agreed to intervene in the federal investigation of two pro-Israel lobbyists in exchange for help in getting a coveted congressional post.
The California Democrat noted that she had called on the Justice Department to release all the information it had about secretly monitored conversations that involved her.
The article then reports:
Harman has described the wiretap as an abuse of government power.
But she didn't stop there!
"I will not quit on this until I am absolutely sure this can never happen to anyone else."
If you prick me, do I bleed?
I don't understand your anger Congresswoman. After all, as we "Raving, Far Left Liberals" are always told, "If you're not doing anything wrong, what do you have to fear?"
Is it the intrusion on your personal privacy that gets your goat?
Is it your belief that as an American citizen your rights are being violated?
Is it the idea that nothing you say on the phone, or by email, is secure, and free from the eavesdropping of your government and its minions?
Is it the idea that you value a quaint concept called personal space which allows you to conduct dealing without exposing those utterances and thoughts to a world that might not understand the context, the history, or the value you perceive?
Is it that you believe that your status as an elected official places you above the hoi poloi such as the citizens you have sworn to protect, and the Constitution you promised to defend?
Sorry, Janie Girl. I saw no rush to object to the wiretapping program when you felt yourself to be above the fray. No hurry to question, or oversee, this egregious intrusion into my life, unregulated and unmonitored. No attempt to stop the Bush Administration from shredding my civil rights.
I just can't get all that upset that you have been, truly, hoisted with your own petard.
Oh, and good luck with that whole outrage/sympathy/wronged kerfluffle. I don't think that anyone feels much beside a grim satisfaction that you got caught in your own "security games". Indeed, I'll go farther. Every member of the Federal Government should be subject to every single "security precaution" without judicial pre-approval, just as we teaming masses are.