Commentary by Tim Jones of the Electronic Frontier Foundation regarding Rep. Jane Harman’s hypocrisy over warrantless wiretapping:

Rep. Jane Harman Changes Her Tune On Wiretapping

Reports in Congressional Quarterly and the New York Times indicate that a National Security Agency (NSA) wiretap authorized by the FISA Court recorded Rep. Jane Harman trading political favors with a suspected Israeli agent. When the FBI attempted to open a criminal investigation into the matter, Attorney General Gonzales allegedly intervened because he “‘needed Jane’ to help support the administration’s warrantless wiretapping program.” [...]

Now, in the wake of the scandal, Rep. Harman has pulled an abrupt about-face in her position on NSA wiretapping. [...]

This is a real change of tune for Rep. Harman. Over the past few years, she has been one of the warrantless wiretapping program’s most relentless cheerleaders. [...]

So, when countless ordinary Americans are being wiretapped without warrants, Harman declares the program “both necessary and legal.” But when Harman herself is victim to a court-approved wiretap, she decides it’s “a gross abuse of power”? You can draw your own conclusions, but to us this seems the height of hypocrisy.

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