You Got AIPAC’s Dick In Yo’ Mouth

“I never had any idea that my government was wiretapping me at all… this abuse of power is outrageous and I call on your department to release all transcripts and other investigative material involving me in an unredacted form.”

– Jane Harman on being caught selling her soul to Israel

[PBH Translation: It is outrageous I got caught via legal wiretap selling out my country to Israel!]

See Also: Harman: “I didn’t need to cut some deal with AIPAC.”, Can Jane Harman Hear Herself?, Harman: Alleged wiretap an ‘abuse of power’, Harman/AIPAC Connection Is Not New, Are Members of Congress (and Maybe Even the President) Being Blackmailed?, Interview with Representative Jane Harman (D-Cal.), Harman, AIPAC, and Leaks, and The Lobby is at it again.

[tags]jane harman, jane harmen, wire-tapping, wiretap, israel, aipac, isreal, israeli spy, mossad, aipac, american israeli political action committee, spies, traitors, israel-first policy, democratic representative[/tags]

Torture Gets A Pass, But Letter Writing…

So, you can apparently torture without recourse in America:

The Obama administration on Thursday released top secret memos outlining the legal rationale used to justify the CIA’s torture of terror suspects, but vowed not to prosecute the torturers.

“It would be unfair to prosecute dedicated men and women working to protect America for conduct that was sanctioned in advance by the Justice Department,” Attorney General Eric Holder said.

But, defending a Guantanamo prisoner and writing a letter detailing his torture, welp.. that’ll get your ass sent to jail:

A former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who accused a Bay Area company of flying him to foreign torture chambers for the CIA is at the center of a bizarre new case, in which his lawyers face possible jail sentences for writing a letter that asked President Obama to disclose how brutally he was treated.

Only in America.

See Also: A Light At The End Of The Torture Tunnel, Torture Prosecutions Still On The Table, WH Press Secy: There Will Be No Accountability For Torture, Olbermann: “President Obama, You Are Wrong”, The CIA waterboarded two people 266 times… Do you feel safer?, Torture: I’m talking to Yoo, Torture: Obama Is on a Slippery Slope, and This Week In the Conservative Underbelly: Tea Parties, Torture, and Telling.

[tags]torture, prosecution, torture memos, cia, central intelligence agency, Guantanamo bay, Guantanamo prison, interrogations, interrogation methods[/tags]

The Best Congress Israel Could Buy

Surprising they were caught and this incident made public; not so surprising this happened:

Rep. Jane Harman, the California Democrat with a longtime involvement in intelligence issues, was overheard on an NSA wiretap telling a suspected Israeli agent that she would lobby the Justice Department to reduce espionage-related charges against two officials of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, the most powerful pro-Israel organization in Washington.

Harman was recorded saying she would “waddle into” the AIPAC case “if you think it’ll make a difference,” according to two former senior national security officials familiar with the NSA transcript.

In exchange for Harman’s help, the sources said, the suspected Israeli agent pledged to help lobby Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., then-House minority leader, to appoint Harman chair of the Intelligence Committee after the 2006 elections, which the Democrats were heavily favored to win.

See Also: Who Listened To Harman? NSA Or FBI?, Caught In The AIPAC, Jane’s sedition?, This River Runs Deep, Unpacking The AIPAC Story, Jane Harman denies CQ report she was heard on NSA wiretap lobbying for AIPAC officials, Sources: Wiretap Recorded Harman Promising to Intervene for AIPAC, Rep. Harmon Recorded Making Deal With Israeli Agents, Harman caught on wiretap bargaining for intervention in espionage case, and Surveillance and Political Corruption.

[tags]aipac, corruption, espionage, Jane Harman, representative Jane Harman, democrat, bribery, israeli agent, mossad, mosad, musad, israeli spy, spying, american israel political action committee, intelligence[/tags]

Defining Socialism

There seems to be some confusion among certain segments of the population on the meaning of socialism.

Socialism is: believing that all individuals are due a certain level of living; that things such as health care, education, adequate nutrition, clean and unpolluted environments, and shelter are universal rights; and that adequate safe guards should be in place to prevent the exploitation of markets and peoples.

Socialism is not propping up failed financial institutions that made their money via speculative and predatory behavior; allowing corporations to profiteer off of federal bail-outs; nor is socialism enriching an oligarchical elite while the economic world they created crumbles. Socialism is not Bizarro Robin Hood, where the government steals from the poor to give to the rich.

So please, if you are an angry white-male who reads too much libertarian literature, do not confuse present circumstances with your interpretation of ‘socialism’. Trust me, real socialists are more outraged by this situation than you are.

See Also: Why Does Healthcare Cost So Much, Ctd., Reducing inequality: how to pay for it, The Bail-Out as Class Warfare, Let Them Drink Tea, Bailout Nation Update, Self-Regulation Doesn’t Work, What are the tea parties really about?, Capitalism versus Socialism – Poll confirms massive anti-capitalist shift in US public opinion, Obama Haters As Viewed By The Economist, and Of Course You’re Not a Socialist, Mr. Rattner.

[tags]socialism, what is socialism, obama administration, financial industry, nationalization, socialism in america, bank bailouts, federal bailouts, bizarro robin hood[/tags]

Fucking Audio Ads & ‘Virus Scan’ Redirects

Dear Readers:

Please help me identify the purveyors of the audio ads and virus scan redirects that seem to be popping up on the PBH Network. If you get one, please drop a note and let me know what site you get it on and what site it sends you to. Thanks!