Rep. Jane Harman and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano are old friends, but that isn't stopping Harman from calling out Napolitano for slow-walking an agency review of the controversial use of military satellites in U.S. airspace. Harman, the California Democrat who ...Read More
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran plans to launch a communications satellite by late 2011 with no outside help, a top Iranian official said Friday, after Italy and Russia declined to put it into orbit. The move reflected Tehran's frustration with the ...Read More
Microsoft on Thursday said next week's Patch Tuesday release will consist of six bulletins that address a total of 15 vulnerabilities in its Windows and Office products. According to Microsoft's Security Bulletin Advance Notification for November, four of the bulletins ...Read More
LINNICH, Germany — NATO's top officer in charge of the alliance's forces in Afghanistan is warning that a stalemate with the Taliban could threaten the mission. German Gen. Egon Ramms, whose office oversees NATO's international security force in Afghanistan warns "the ...Read More
The House ethics committee initiated a review this year of a 2005 conversation that Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) had with an Israeli operative in which she discussed winning help for her bid to become chairman of the House intelligence committee, ...Read More
Pics NASA has released new images from its spy satellite orbiting the Moon, showing the twin impacts at the lunar south pole of the iceberg-hunting probe which struck there on Friday.
The LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) mission saw ...Read More
Reporting from Washington -- Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has decided to kill a controversial Bush administration program to use U.S. spy satellites to collect domestic intelligence for counter-terrorism, law enforcement and security, a senior Homeland Security official said Monday ...Read More
The infamously wiretapped Jane Harman wants to shut down the federal agency slated to oversee the use of satellites for spying on U.S. residents suspected of terrorism and other evildoing. The California Democrat, who was wiretapped talking about the fate of ...Read More
Cyber espionage, attacks, breaches, viruses — they are all among the concerns President Barack Obama cited Friday when he announced he will create a new White House office of cyber security, with that cyber czar reporting to the National Security ...Read More
US military satellites secretly monitored Sri Lanka’s conflict zone through the latter stages of the war against the Tamil Tigers and American officials are examining images for evidence of war crimes, The Times has learnt. The images are of a higher ...Read More
A top aide to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi attended a CIA briefing in early 2003 in which it was made clear that waterboarding and other harsh techniques were being used in the interrogation of an alleged al-Qaeda operative, according to ...Read More
A federal regulator is opening a satellite office in Jacksonville bringing up to 500 temporary positions to assist with failed banks. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is opening the temporary satellite office at 7777 Baymeadows Way to manage receiverships and liquidate ...Read More
From NBC's Abby Livingston Ever since CQ reported that Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) had been overheard on phone conversations allegedly promising to go to bat to the Justice Department on behalf of two former AIPAC officials accused of espionage, the embattled ...Read More
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi acknowledged yesterday that she was briefed "a few years ago" by Bush administration officials about the fact that Rep. Jane Harman was the subject of a wiretap. Pelosi, who had not previously revealed that she knew her ...Read More
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi confirmed today that she had been briefed on government wiretaps of Rep. Jane Harman (D), but never took up the issue with her embattled California colleague. “The tradition is that when a member of Congress is overheard ...Read More
How ironic that I made my decision to challenge Jane Harman in 2006 after watching her Meet the Press interview in which she lambasted the New York Times for breaking the story about the Bush administration's massive illegal wiretapping. "Oh ...Read More
Rep. Jane Harman, under scrutiny for allegedly pledging in a 2005 phone call to try and help two former officials of an Israeli lobying group accused of conspiring to pass classified information, told TIME on Tuesday that she is not ...Read More
U.S. Representative Jane Harman, a California Democrat, has found herself in the crosshairs of a potential scandal following an April 19 Congressional Quarterly story alleging Harman was caught on a 2005 or 2006 NSA wiretap offering to lobby the Justice ...Read More
Even in a town of bigger-than-life personalities, media mogul Haim Saban stands out -- lion-like in demeanor, furiously determined and unshakably loyal to those people and causes in which he fervently believes. Those causes: Israel, the Democratic Party and medical philanthropy ...Read More
Reporting from Washington -- Rep. Jane Harman today called on the Obama administration to clear the air over reported allegations that she might have taken steps to seek leniency for employees of a pro-Israeli lobbying organization under investigation for espionage ...Read More
WASHINGTON — A former member of the House Intelligence Committee denied on Monday interceding in an investigation into two pro-Israel lobbyists now facing a trial on espionage charges. California Democrat Rep. Jane Harman's office said she "never contacted the Justice Department ...Read More
