Bipartisan Corruption Scandal Exposed

In what a veteran national security official calls the “deepest kind of corruption,” a Republican administration covered up a Democrat lawmaker’s crimes in exchange for her support of a controversial secret wiretapping program.

The Bush Administration dropped an investigation into a California congresswoman’s collaboration with foreign spies so that she would publicly defend its warrantless domestic surveillance operation as it was about to be exposed in a national newspaper. The scathing details of this bipartisan corruption scandal were revealed this week by a news publication that covers Congress.

The veteran Los Angeles congresswoman (Jane Harman) is the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee and is tight with Washington’s most powerful pro-Israel organization (American Israeli Public Affairs Committee— AIPAC). She was actually recorded on a National Security Agency wiretap offering to use her position as the intelligence panel’s ranking Democrat to help reduce espionage charges against two AIPAC officials who stole classified information.

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