Intelligence Committee Pelosi's next test?

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The Raw Story | 'Why is Pelosi so tough on Harman?' asked Chris Matthews



'Why is Pelosi so tough on Harman?' asked Chris Matthews Ron Brynaert
Published: Monday November 13, 2006


On Sunday, MSNBC host Chris Matthews asked why the first woman slated to become Speaker was "so tough" on the House intelligence committee's ranking Democrat, who would normally be in line for a leadership position.

Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has already endorsed Rep. John P. Murtha (D-PA) for majority leader, which places the Speaker-to-be in the middle of "a contentious intraparty fight between Murtha and her current deputy, Maryland's Steny H. Hoyer," the Washington Post reports.

"Pelosi has also all but decided she will not name the ranking Democrat on the House intelligence committee, Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) to chair that panel next year, a decision pregnant with personal animus," Jonathan Weisman writes for the Post.
NBC's Andrea Mitchell explained Pelosi's "personal animus" to Harmon on Matthews' show Sunday.

Pelosi believes Harman "hasn't been tough enough on the Bush administration, on intelligence issues, that she wasn’t, that she was too moderate, too centrist, even though she is the most credible Democrat on all of these issues and has a national following and it is a really nasty fight among two powerful congresswomen," said Mitchell.

"Pelosi has nursed a well-publicized grudge against her fellow California Democrat because she believes Harman has not been a tough enough critic of President Bush on security matters, while using her ties to the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee to lobby for the chairmanship," Shailagh Murray and Juliet Eilperin reported for the Post last week.
Reports indicate that Florida Rep. Alcee Hastings may become chairman, instead, due to considerable lobbying by the Congressional Black Caucus.

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Sound like another chance to be smart or be personal and left political?

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Pelosi believes Harman "hasn't been tough enough on the Bush administration, on intelligence issues, that she wasn’t, that she was too moderate, too centrist, even though she is the most credible Democrat on all of these issues and has a national following and it is a really nasty fight among two powerful congresswomen," said Mitchell.

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Let's not blame the Democrat most responsible for not educating other democrats on the intelligence levels in Iraq and getting us into that mess

She's one of the few people in washington who could have actively searched the CIA for doubting memos about WMD and Iraq's post war stability issues, instead she stuck her thumb up her ass and stared at the wall...

Yeah thats exactly the kind of leader we want on intelligence :rollseyes:

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Originally Posted by Thorgrim

Pelosi believes Harman "hasn't been tough enough on the Bush administration, on intelligence issues, that she wasn’t, that she was too moderate, too centrist, even though she is the most credible Democrat on all of these issues and has a national following and it is a really nasty fight among two powerful congresswomen," said Mitchell.

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Let's not blame the Democrat most responsible for not educating other democrats on the intelligence levels in Iraq and getting us into that mess

She's one of the few people in washington who could have actively searched the CIA for doubting memos about WMD and Iraq's post war stability issues, instead she stuck her thumb up her ass and stared at the wall...

Yeah thats exactly the kind of leader we want on intelligence :rollseyes:

Excuse me! They all got the same briefings. The same intelligence that Kerry and the rest of your bunch made their proclamations about Iraq. A real stretch to blame Harmon. Even Gates says it was a poor job done by CIA, not political manipulation by Bush. I know you don't want to accept that simple fact but there it is in every report done to date including the British. The House is hardly in a position in the Congress to micromanage the CIA. That is not a responcibility of the oversite committee. I haven't seen any suggestion of this other than from yourself.

What we don't need is some crook judge who probably would have gone along with the "abolish the CIA voices" in your party after the end of the cold war.

Harmon hasn't towed the far left line on the Patrot Act, NSA, Homeland Security, ect....and they don't like each other. No need to spin what is no mystery.

Will you look at me! I am defending a House Democrat!

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Harmon had more continual access to intelligence than other democrats, on many key issues she was briefed and not allowed to tell other members

Again, did she investigate on her own, did she look for holes? No, she just sat there and stared

I'm so glad they are tossing her ass out