Jane Harman
Jane Harman
Jane Margaret Lakes Harmanis the former U.S. Representative for California's 36th congressional district, serving from 1993 to 1999, and from 2001 to 2011; she is a member of the Democratic Party. Resigning from Congress in February 2011, Harman became President and CEO of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She succeeded former Congressman Lee Hamilton and is the first woman to lead the 45-year-old “living memorial” to America’s 28th President...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth28 June 1945
CountryUnited States of America
To make those changes effectively, he has to do them with an experienced staff, and he doesn't have one, ... Many of us worked with that staff in the House. Frankly, on both sides of the aisle in our committee, we were happy to see them go.
We will be a fact-driven, witness-driven review inquiry. We will not be driven by outside pressures.
We have to change the guidelines that we use to recruit those spies, ... In fact the CIA is required by law to change those guidelines and hasn't.
Today's agreement by the White House and congressional leaders means that interrogators will be given clear, unambiguous rules to follow. The fog of law is finally lifting. America's moral black eye is finally healing.
The point of it is to understand fully how we collected, analyzed and presented intelligence ... and what responsibility the intelligence community had to correct misinformation by policymakers,
We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor and infiltrate suspicious organizations or terrorist groups.
We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim women who might be intimidated by men.
I think Democrats in Congress love Israel. Our relationship with Israel depends on a strong bipartisan relationship.
But as I often say, terrorists wont check our party registration before they blow us up.
When you put your mind to it, you usually find that there is a way to achieve what you want after all.
The point is to solve problems, not point fingers.
Democrats and Republicans love Israel and all of us care about the existential threat to Israel from Iran.
At the same time as we clearly condemn actions of violence by groups in Palestinian against Israel.
So, you know, I think that Democrats are being more successful in Congress and I'm really going to be proud of the role I will play tomorrow as ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee when this bill passes.