Pelosi: I Knew Harman Was Wiretapped

By Will McCahill,  Newser Staff
Posted Apr 22, 2009 2:08 PM CDT
Pelosi: I Knew Harman Was Wiretapped
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks on Capitol Hill.   (AP Photo)

Nancy Pelosi said today she knew fellow California Democrat Jane Harman was the subject of intelligence wiretaps, but she couldn’t spill because the information had come in a confidential briefing, CQ Politics reports. “Even if I wanted to share it with her I would not have had the liberty,” said Pelosi, who learned of the surveillance in 2005 or 2006, when she was a member of the Intelligence Committee.
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