Collins Report

By Kevin “Coach” Collins

California Democrat Jane Harmon tried to sell her influence to end an espionage case against two spies in return for help becoming House Intelligence Committee chairwoman.

In a newly released NSA wiretap report, Harmon has been exposed negotiating a quid pro quo deal with an official of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). The agreement apparently called for Harmon to sell the influence of her Congressional office by lobbying the Justice Department to reduce espionage charges against two AIPAC operatives. In return AIPAC would lobby then minority leader Democrat Nancy Pelosi to name Harmon as the Chair of the House Intelligence Committee once the Democrats regained the Congress in 2006.

The recording caught Harmon clowning about the serious issue saying she’d “waddle into” the case on behalf of AIPAC.

As most criminals, Harmon became worried about eventual discovery and said, “This conversation doesn’t exist” just before hanging up.

Harmon has angrily denied the story over the years since it first surfaced in 2006. Nevertheless, that was before the existence of the court ordered wiretap aimed at investigating the AIPAC agent she was speaking to became known,

With a Robert Torricelli like rant Harmon commented, “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.”

In a quid pro quo of his own Alberto Gonzales intervened in the case against Harmon in return for her support of warrentless wiretaps.

This shows Harmon’s insistence the case was dropped “for a lack of evidence”is false. It drew a blunt response from a source reported to have first hand knowledge of it.

The source called it “bull s&^t!” and said, “I read those transcripts “It’s true. She was on there.”

This new information goes a long way toward explaining not only why Harman was denied the gavel of the House Intelligence Committee, but failed to land a top job at the CIA or Homeland Security Department in the Obama administration.

America dodged a bullet when Harmon was denied the Chair of the House Intelligence Committee. Harmon’s corrupt character and the loose lips of Diane Feinstein in the Senate Intelligence Committee would have been very dangerous for our nation.

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