People who get their hands caught in the cookie jar and then lash out at the people who catch them amuse me. In the 1990s, Bill Clinton successfully employed this bold tactic. And now Representative Jane Harman of California is using it. "Many members of Congress talk to advocacy groups," Harman explained yesterday. "My phone is ringing off the hook from worried members who think it could have happened to them. I think this is an abuse of power." What she is talking about is the federal wiretap that allegedly caught her negotiating a deal with a suspected Israeli agent to aid two accused espionage agents who are set to stand trial in June. She says this is an "outrage"--the wiretap, not her discussions of a quid pro quo with such a shady character on behalf of two accused spies. As if the hubris wasn't brash enough, Harman supported warentless domestic wiretaps by the feds--just not when she's on the line, apparently. Jane Harman is the chairman of the Homeland Security subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment.

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

A "key" DEMOCRAT? Say it ain't so!

They're all taking a page our of the Barney Frank handbook: when caught red handed, cry, whine, obfuscate, obfuscate, obfuscate!