Rep. Jane Harman
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- : Jane Harman was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1992. During her six terms in Congress she has gained a national reputation as one of the foremost experts on issues of intelligence, homeland security, and foreign affairs. She currently serves as Ranking Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and as a member of the House Homeland Security Committee. She previously served on the House Armed Services Committee, and the House Science Committee. Prior to her election, Harman was an attorney in private practice. A graduate of Smith College and Harvard Law School, Harman has served as Deputy Secretary of the Cabinet in the Carter White House, Special Counsel at the Department of Defense, a member of the National Commission on Terrorism, and as Regents Professor at the University of California � Los Angeles. She resides in Venice, California, with her husband Sidney Harman, Founder and Executive Chairman of Harman International. She has four children.
Jane Harman Comments on The Release of Bush's Law by Eric Lichtblau
Eric Lichtblau's new book due out this week, Bush's Law, contains a passage implying that I switched my view on the NSA surveillance program – supporting it when it was a secret and opposing it after it was leaked. Let...more »
Posted on March 31, 2008 6:01 PM
Gitmo Must Go
Our failure to dry up the seemingly endless pool of recruits willing to martyr themselves is the main reason why we continue to lose ground against al Qaida worldwide. It is al Qaida, not Iraq, that is our biggest problem,...more »
Posted on May 9, 2007 12:39 PM
MY REACTION TO THE TRAGEDY AT VIRGINIA TECH
Six months after the Amish school shootings in Pennsylvania and nearly eight years after Columbine, America once again mourns for the victims of another senseless mass shooting. We have all been touched by this week's tragedy at Virginia Tech. A...more »
Posted on April 17, 2007 3:34 PM
Campaign Rhetoric Won't Fix Iraq
I was surprised to read in today's newspaper that the President used a campaign speech yesterday to attack this 5'3" grandmother - because I said that he got it backwards: fighting them there may make it more likely that we'll...more »
Posted on September 29, 2006 2:32 PM
Powering Up India Not Worth Destabilizing The Region
Yesterday, the House approved, and I opposed, a bill to allow the President to enter into a nuclear cooperation agreement with India, the world’s largest democracy and an important strategic ally of the United States. The India Nuclear Cooperation Promotion...more »
Posted on July 27, 2006 10:13 AM
Old WMD News and Declassification Hypocrisy
You would think that for something to be considered “news,” it would have to be, well, new. Yet Republicans including Rep. Pete Hoekstra and Senator Rick Santorum are trying to spin a report on degraded pre-1991 WMDs that were found...more »
Posted on June 30, 2006 10:09 AM
The Makings of an African Renaissance
TRIPOLI, LIBYA - Try to make a phone call from Libya to any U.S. area code added after 1986 - such as New York's "917" - and your call probably won't go through. That's because 1986 was the year U.S....more »
Posted on January 16, 2006 7:52 AM
Why Sharon Won Europe's Heart
Congresswoman Harman is on an 8-day trip to Europe and Africa. LONDON - Europe never loved Ariel Sharon, preferring instead to flirt with Yasser Arafat. But as he lies clinging to life in a Jerusalem hospital, the 77-year-old Israeli Prime...more »
Posted on January 11, 2006 8:26 AM
The View From Iraq
"Gator four-five" - the radio call sign for the US Air Force C-130 - banked a hard left as it began evasive maneuvers on approach to the huge complex called BIAP (BYE-ap, for Baghdad International Airport). A flight the previous...more »
Posted on September 30, 2005 7:14 AM
The Good Life in Kuwait
KUWAIT CITY -- Life is good for the citizens of Kuwait, the small emirate on the banks of the Persian Gulf, called here the "Arabian" Gulf because of the strong dislike for Iran. Kuwait sits atop the world's third largest...more »
Posted on September 28, 2005 12:43 PM
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Hi Irishkg--
Here's what I recently wrote on DailyKos about changing course in Iraq, after the House debate on the GOP's sham "stay-the-course" resolution:
www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/6/20/133327/774
-- Jane
Posted at June 30, 2006 12:39 PM in response to Old WMD News and Declassification Hypocrisy
