Jane Harman's Calls for Intelligence Oversight are a Self-Incriminating Tale: WikiLeak Papers, Lies, and Videotape

TORRANCE, Calif., July 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Jane Harman, Chair of the Subcommittee for Homeland Security and Intelligence, in the wake of the Pentagon WikiLeaks paper, C.I.A. videos, intelligence outsourcing, lost or unaccounted for funds to Iraq, has called for more oversight. Harman incriminates herself showing her lack of oversight and leadership risks our nation's national security.

"Why is Jane Harman, current Subcommittee Chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, (D. Calif.) the darling of the intelligence community?" asks Mattie Fein, Harman's opponent in the 36th congressional district congressional race in California.

Harman has participated in giving birth to more than 1,200 government intelligence agencies and more than 1,900 private intelligence contractors producing more than 50,000 intelligence reports annually at a cost exceeding $100 billion per annum as military commanders complain they have produced nothing of use for 4 1/2 years.

Harman gripes in The Washington Post, that "Congress is still not a full partner" and whines that Congress needs full information of the colossal intelligence enterprise and more oversight. Yet, Harman neglected to champion legislation that would prohibit the expenditure of funds by the Executive Branch to gather intelligence that is not shared with Congress. Moreover, she has been complacent with $8.8 billion in unaccountable reconstruction spending in Iraq.

The WikiLeaks papers confirm that Pakistan's premier intelligence service is conspiring with Taliban and other insurgents to defeat the United States in Afghanistan. Harman never sought access to the WikiLeaks paper---a flagrant violation of her oversight responsibilities.

Harman believes she should be awarded a medal of courage for writing to the C.I.A. urging the non-destruction of interrogation videos of Al Qaeda detainees. Harman's neglect to demand to view the videos, as she knew they existed, highlights her "potted plant" stature in Congress.

Moreover, Harman refuses to answer Fein's calls for her to divest in shares of Harman International that have business ties to Iran.

"As the 36th district home values sank, unemployment remained high, and manufacturing stifled in the district, Jane Harman's entanglement in the defense business through Harman International took her shares on her re-elect in 2000 from around $18.00 a share to a staggering $130 a share in 2004 with Harman International's acquisition of QNX Software that secured millions in contracts with the U.S. government and in Russia and China. Jane Harman's oversight on intelligence is overseeing her own financial portfolio," Fein concludes.

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