Senate passes $631B military spending bill 98-0

there are two things in congress that will hardly ever see any real opposition. the first is support for Israel. the other is WAR. http://news.antiwar.com/2012/12/04/senate-passes-631-billion-military-spending-bill-98-0/

UN votes 174-6 for Israel to open nukes to inspection

http://www.rys2sense.com/anti-neocons/viewtopic.php?t=31152

fucking whatever.

explain to me how the hell Assange is up there but not Bradley Manning, i still cant even figure out whether wikileaks is legit or not or if its just a vessel to confuse the fuck out of all of us. what the hell has Assange done id really like to know, exposed terabytes of confusing ass shit from a bunch of retards that doesnt make any sense that some dude whos been sitting in solitary confinement for the past couple years gave to him? and how the hell is that gatekeeping piped piping bozo who tried to shut me up every time i dared to utter criticism of alex jones or israel, Luke Rudkowski on this list? the kid fucking deleted me from facebook after i defended Dominick Andreana when he called him out on his shady ass financial handlings that i knew about for several years but never bothered to say anything about it because i really didnt care. half the group would leave his ass after every years events because of his sticky fingers. and how the hell is that fat racist fuck Franchi on this list? the fucker blocked me after he made posts on his facebook saying that criticism of Israel wasnt allowed! and why was i criticizing Israel? because the fat fuck had the nerve to ask why anyone didnt support Rand! then blocked myself and Danny Roldan for telling him why! what a joke. http://fpp.cc/2012/12/02/announcing-winners-2012-fpp-peace-prize/

crime and demographics

this stuff is really interesting when you take a real close look at the demographics of each one of these cities with the highest murder/crime rates. there are some big mysteries such as Tulsa but generally speaking, its hard to ignore that the demographics of these cities play a part in these crime rates. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_cities_by_crime_rate

from The Jewish Religion: Its Influence Today by Elizabeth Dilling II. THE TALMUD REVILED

if the public only knew

Who Was Saul of Tarsus?

heres a real heartbreaker, as if the fibs, exaggerations, and blatant plagiarism from other mystical texts run amok didnt already destroy any shred of credibility (in the very least, as an ideology) the Bible had left, the very man who wrote half the New Testament was a Pharisee. the same Pharisees Jesus was so critical of and they of he, the same Pharisees Jesus confronted on numerous instances throughout the Bible. the same Pharisees who "taught laws of man and not of God". the same Pharisees who said Jesus was bastard born of a whore and that he is a warlock boiling in hot excrement in hell. the same Pharisees who brought to us the most vile and wretched piece of filth literature ever conceived in the Talmud. and not only was Saul a Pharisee, but he was also taught by Galmiel. "Saul was raised in Jerusalem and taught by Gamaliel, a doctor of the law. Gamaliel was well respected by the people and was considered the greatest teacher of the day. Saul was taught the perfect manner of the law, by Gamaliel." the same Saul who never even met Jesus, who saw him in a dream. this isnt to underscore the ideology of Jesus as a person, but its hard to argue that this religion was doomed from its manifestation to be a vessel of control and manipulation. Acts 23:6- But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question. Acts 22:3- I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day. Who Was Saul of Tarsus?

Sanctions- More Deadly Than The Atomic Bomb?

US Senate approves new sanctions on iran energy shipping sectors

bat. shit. insane. US Senate approves new sanctions on iran energy shipping sectors

without Dr. No, we now begin a new era of the most lopsided votes ever.

a little old but hard to ignore

Benghazi was just the tip of the iceberg

his two cents are legit, but i especially love the fact that the "J" word flies out of his mouth as if theres no harm using it. and you know what? there is no harm using it! i remember reading through Patraeus' senate report a couple years back, this dude literally labeled every single country in the region as possible targets like a true nut job but the zionist demons boo-hooed over something so blatantly obvious that anyone with the common sense of a door knob would have noticed. and then this four star US army general tried to smooth it out to appease his zionist overlords like the little coward he is. http://mondoweiss.net/2012/11/broadwell-scandal-not-the-first-time-petraeus-was-sloppy-with-email-in-2010-he-leaked-his-own-emails-scheming-with-neocon-max-boot.html

3,000 homes beyond Green Line okayed

maybe this will bother people a little more now than it would have before. i wouldnt count on it. 3,000 homes beyond Green Line okayed http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4313863,00.html

the wikileaks distraction..

http://mycatbirdseat.com/2010/11/wikileaks-is-zionist-poison/

http://antiwar.com/radio/2010/11/13/ali-gharib-3/

and the winner is... Israel!

neocons carry out 9/11. 9/11 truth starts. tea party throws commission into the harbor. bill kristol puts palin on mccains ticket. fox news promotes tea party. alex jones keeps listeners dumb. tea party becomes new pro-israel war party.

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/10640443
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How the Neocons Are Co-opting the Tea Party by Scott McConnell
http://original.antiwar.com/scott-mcconnell/2010/11/11/how-the-neocons-are-co-opting-the-tea-party/

The Tea Party Disconnect by Philip Giraldi

http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/10/27/the-tea-party-disconnect/

a few articles

google these...

Forced national service

Obamas American Dream: Servitude
Obama Calls For National Civilian Stasi
Obamas Mass Movement Gets a New Mission
New Rules for Obamas National Civilian Security Force
Starbucks: Are You In Obamas Civilian National Security Force?

Broken promises

Obama—President Of Special Interests
Obamas Inquiry: Guantánamo is within Geneva conventions
Obama backs Bush: No rights for Bagram prisoners
Obama: Gitmo Likely Wont Close Soon
Obama Doesnt Plan to End Occupation of Iraq
Obamas Pentagon: Bowing to the Masters of War?
The New Obama Administration: A Lot of More of the Same
Obama signs order to export 'torture'
Obama Breaks New Rule for Raytheon Lobbyist
Obamas Intelligence Agenda: More of the Same from the Change Administration
Activist: Obama defense of FISA support a stiff arm to constitution
Alex Jones on Russia Today: Obama Inauguration

Banker agenda

Obamas Stimulus Will Cause Lower Wages for American Workers
Obamas Change: Expanding the Power of the NSC and Shadow Government
Obamas Energy Secretary: Get Ready for Carbon Taxes
Obama: Americans Will Accept Bankster Engineered Depression
Barack Obama: the Bankers Choice
Americans Believe Obama Will Turn the Economy Around
Obama Prepares to Loot Social Security, Medicare
Obamas Economic Foxes To Guard Financial Henhouse
Obamas Treasury Candidates: Old Guard Of The Corporate Elite
Illuminati Bankers Seek Revolution by Economic Means
Obamas Inauguration Has Been Financed Partially by Bailed-Out Wall Street Executives

Globalism

Obamas Cap on Carbon Pollution Is A Huge Tax Increase, Republican Lawmaker Says
Keyes: Stop Obama or U.S. will cease to exist
Obama Picks Bilderberger for Health Secretary

Obama Appoints Top Notch CFR, Bilderberg Members
Obama Offers Internationalist Vision
President Obamas Rise Due to Blue Blood Ancestry or power of American Dream?
Obama picks president of Council on Foreign Relations to be Foreign Policy Advisor
Obamas Energy Czar: Socialist Agent For World Government
Obamas Civilian National Security Force
Obama Selects CFR Member Sanjay Gupta to be Surgeon General
Obama climate czar has socialist ties
Kissinger Again Shills Obama and the New World Order
Day One for the Global Savior Barack Obama
Obama and our Eugenical Future
Professor Griff of Public Enemy Says No to Obama and the New World Order
Obama Picks CFR Insider to Head Treasury
Obama Feigns Ignorance of CFR, NAU
Obamas Neocon: The Curious Case of Richard Holbrooke
Hansen: Obama has four years to save Earth
Obama, the military and the threat of dictatorship
Obamas New World Order plans revealed

Eugenics

Obamas First Act: Taxpayer Money To Fund Abortions Of Black Babies

Pakistan

Obama Continues Pakistan Strike Policy
2 U.S. Airstrikes Offer a Concrete Sign of Obamas Pakistan Policy

War agenda continues under Obama

Obama set to launch military surge in Afghanistan
Obamas War Machine Needs $800 Billion For 2009
Obama orders more troops to Afghanistan
Why Obama Is Wrong
Obama: No Comment on Gaza Slaughter
Obama Meets with Neocons
We can be fooled again
Obama administration warns public to expect rise in US casualties
Obama Taps Neocons to Run Middle East Policy

Destroying the Constitution

Eleven States Declare Sovereignty Over Obamas Action
King Obama: House Considers Repealing 22nd Amendment
Obama AG Choice Advocated Censoring Internet
Proposed Law May Allow Obama AG Holder to Ban Guns at Will
News access issues concern those covering Obama
Obama Health Plan Poses Danger to American Freedoms
Obamas Unconstitutional Agenda: Plan For A New World Order
Barack Obama: The Naked Emperor
Chief Justice John Roberts Meets with Obama in Private
Will Obama Change The Bush Police State Or Expand It?

http://www.obamadeception.net/

AIPAC Trial Dismissed and Why it was Dimisses by Ryan Dawson

Ron Paul Warns Swine Flu Scare Will Be Used As Precedent For More Big Government

http://infowars.net/articles/april2009/280409Paul.htm

Repeat of 1976 fearmongering campaign in full swing


Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Tuesday, April 28, 2009


"Step back and think for a minute before rushing and panicking" is the message coming from Texas Congressman Ron Paul who has warned that the swine flu scare will once again be used as a precedent for big government intrusion.

"It makes me think back to 1976, the first year I served in the Congress," Paul has said in a video update. "We had a vote on the swine flu. Back then there was panic, they said it was going to sweep the nation and they rapidly came up with some flu shots and the government was going to inoculate everybody and save the world from this disaster."

"It turned out that our instincts were correct." the Congressman, also a medical physician, commented. "Not only did we think that the government should be involved in making medical decisions... but the flu came, the flu went and one person died, except for those individuals that died from getting the flu vaccine."

Earlier this week we reported on the events of 1976, highlighting the fact that this last significant outbreak of swine flu in the U.S. originated at the army base at Fort Dix, New Jersey.

President Gerald Ford and then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (a man who has long standing intimate ties with the big pharma companies that have and will reap millions in profits from these scares) instituted a mass nationwide vaccination program. More than 40 million people were vaccinated. However, the program was stopped short after over 500 cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome, a severe paralyzing nerve disease, were reported. Officially 30 people died as a direct result of the vaccinations, though the real figure is generally thought to have been much higher.

At the time Congressman Ron Paul was one of only two representatives to vote down the vaccination program. His comments were recorded in the book Swine Flu Expose, by Eleanora I. McBean, Ph.D., N.D.

Paul described the move as “a shocking misuse of funds …and an evil political maneuver”, “blatant advertising efforts to panic the people into taking Swine Flu shots will fail.” Paul said.

Some of the fearmongering advertisement campaigns from 1976 are featured in the following video:




"Here we are once again, swine flu coming up and everybody is panicking." Ron Paul says in his latest update.

"This is not to downplay the seriousness of it. Some people have died, some people might die, yet we've had no deaths in this country, there's seven or eight cases up in New York, but none have even been hospitalised and yet it's practically like we've been attacked by nuclear weapons."

The Congressman put the current panic in perspective by pointing out that last year alone there were 13,000 cases of tuberculosis with the number of annual deaths last recorded in the hundreds.

Paul then opined on how the scare will once again be pounced upon to bolster and further empower big government. He referred to Janet Napolitano's announcement Sunday that the Department of Homeland Security had started "passive surveillance protocols to screen people coming into the country."

"How did the Department of Homeland Security get into the medical business? It's just totally out of control," Paul said, describing the situation as an open door invitation to allow the federal government to deal with medical problems.

The big question is 'Does a bigger government always solve these problems?' No, they usually make things much worse.

Watch the video:

Is The Swine Flu Outbreak Much Worse Than They Are Telling Us?

http://futurestorm.blogspot.com/2009/04/is-swine-flu-outbreak-much-worse-than.html

Is The Swine Flu Outbreak Much Worse Than They Are Telling Us?

Tuesday, April 28, 2009 Posted by Shattered Paradigm

As the flu crisis continues to spread rapidly around the world there are now frightening indications that the swine flu outbreak is much worse than the mainstream media is telling us. Multiple eyewitness reports out of Mexico confirm that the real death toll there is far higher than the 152 confirmed deaths that are being reported internationally.

Comments from Mexican eyewitnesses on a BBC News website tell of a much bleaker situation in Mexico than we have been told in the mainstream media. These chilling reports should put a chill up your spine.....

*Antonio Chavez, a medical doctor from Mexico City:

I’m a specialist doctor in respiratory diseases and intensive care at the Mexican National Institute of Health. There is a severe emergency over the swine flu here. More and more patients are being admitted to the intensive care unit. Despite the heroic efforts of all staff (doctors, nurses, specialists, etc) patients continue to inevitably die. The truth is that anti-viral treatments and vaccines are not expected to have any effect, even at high doses. It is a great fear among the staff. The infection risk is very high among the doctors and health staff.

There is a sense of chaos in the other hospitals and we do not know what to do. Staff are starting to leave and many are opting to retire or apply for holidays. The truth is that mortality is even higher than what is being reported by the authorities, at least in the hospital where I work it. It is killing three to four patients daily, and it has been going on for more than three weeks. It is a shame and there is great fear here. Increasingly younger patients aged 20 to 30 years are dying before our helpless eyes and there is great sadness among health professionals here.

*Alvaro Ricardez, Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, Mexico:

In the capital of my state, Oaxaca, there is a hospital closed because of a death related to the porcine influenza. In the papers they recognise only two people dead for that cause. Many friends working in hospitals or related fields say that the situation is really bad, they are talking about 19 people dead in Oaxaca, including a doctor and a nurse. They say they got shots but they were told not to talk about the real situation. Our authorities say nothing. Life goes on as usual here.

*Migdalia Cruz, Phoenix, Arizona:

I have a sister-in-law from San Luis Potosi state in Mexico and we were told that in San Luis Potosi there have been at least 78 deaths, just in that city alone, not 68 in all of Mexico, as is being reported. Schools have been closed until 6 May in this state and in other areas in Mexico. Also, many public venues are being closed, so this makes it more deadly and dangerous than has been stated.

*Yeny Gregorio Dávila, Mexico City:

I work as a resident doctor in one of the biggest hospitals in Mexico City and sadly, the situation is far from “under control”. As a doctor, I realise that the media does not report the truth. Authorities distributed vaccines among all the medical personnel with no results, because two of my partners who worked in this hospital (interns) were killed by this new virus in less than six days even though they were vaccinated as all of us were. The official number of deaths is 20, nevertheless, the true number of victims are more than 200. I understand that we must avoid to panic, but telling the truth it might be better now to prevent and avoid more deaths.

Hopefully reports like this will get out there and will make people realize how serious this all could become.

One independent reporter has even captured stunning footage of a packed emergency room full of patients wearing masks and coughing like crazy near the U.S./Mexico border.

In the United States things are starting to become quite frightening as well. There is now a report that North Carolina officials are involuntarily isolating swine flu patients. Please note the "involuntary" part of that. Imagine if this happens all over the nation and Americans who show symptoms of the swine flu start getting ripped away from their families and sent to isolation facilities and camps.

Scary stuff.

Reports of new swine flu outbreaks are coming in almost constantly now and the World Health Organization has raised the threat level from a Phase 3 Global Outbreak to Phase 4, which has never been done before. Meanwhile, scientists are completely puzzled how such a powerful strain that combines elements of swine flu, bird flu and human flu could have appeared seemingly out of nowhere.

So is this going to be the big one?

Is this the one that is going to kill millions of people?

It is too early to tell, but here is what we do know at this hour.....

First of all, this "swine flu" is not just run of the mill swine flu. It contains elements of the following.....

*Avian flu
*Human flu
*European swine flu
*Asian swine flu

Now how in the world did an incredibly strong combination of these viruses appear seemingly out of nowhere?

Scientists are baffled.

Meanwhile this "swine flu" is popping up all over the U.S. and Mexico.

In Mexico alone, there are already over 1600 suspected cases and 152 suspected deaths from the swine flu so far. Most public events have been canceled, and millions of Mexicans are hiding indoors in an attempt to escape the swine flu.

67 cases of the swine flu have been confirmed in the United States, and the CDC says that it is too late to contain the swine flu outbreak in the United States.

In fact, some public schools in many areas all over the United States are being closed due to fear over this swine flu.

These outbreaks in the U.S. and Mexico are already causing panic reactions from other parts of the world.

EU health commissioner Andorra Vassiliou has asked Europeans to postpone nonessential travel to the United States or Mexico. In addition, China has banned the import of hog and pork products from Mexico and parts of the United States.

However, the truth is that the swine flu is now spreading all over the world. Just today new reports of swine flu cases have come in from Canada, Israel, France, New Zealand, Costa Rica and South Korea.

Google actually has a great tool that you can use to track the spread of this swine flu. You can follow the progress of the swine flu on Google maps right here.

So what can we expect to see going forward?

The next few days are going to be key.

If only a few hundred people end up dying from this swine flu that is not that big of a deal. Hundreds of people die from many different causes every day.

But if this disease starts sweeping the globe and thousands of people start dying, then that could indicate that this IS the big one.

The reality is that we have been warning of a coming flu plague for quite some time.

What is even more disturbing is the possibility that this new flu may be engineered. We recently reported on the unlabeled bird flu/human flu mixture that Baxter International "accidentally" sent out to other labs.

Why would our scientists mix these dangerous viruses together so recklessly? The CDC was mixing human flu and bird flu together as far back as 2004. This is incredibly dangerous to do. One mistake and a pandemic virus can be released that could kill millions of people.

So how many people will this "swine flu" virus kill?

Is this going to become a massive pandemic that bring the world to a standstill?

Nobody can say for sure yet, but it is getting frightening out there. Be sure to take the necessary precautions to keep your family safe.

Audit the Federal Reserve - HR 1207

Confirmed: Rep. Jane Harman Tried to Kill NSA Wiretapping Story -- May Have Swayed 2004 Election

By John Byrne, Raw Story. Posted April 21, 2009

The New York Times confirmed late Monday that a top Democratic congresswoman called the paper in 2004 and tried to keep it from publishing an article exposing the Bush Administration’s warrantless wiretapping program -- possibly helping to sway the balance in the 2004 presidential election.

The New York Times exposed the warrantless wiretapping program in 2005, revealing that the National Security Agency had engaged in the interception of thousands of American and foreign calls without a warrant as part of a program intended to disrupt terrorist plots. Upon running the story, they also admitted that they had withheld the article for a year at the urging of Bush Administration officials.

But buried in a Times article published Tuesday is the revelation that the top Democratic congresswoman on the House Intelligence Committee, Jane Harman (D-CA), called the paper’s Washington, D.C. editor in “October or November” of 2004 in an effort to quash the story.

“Bill Keller, the executive editor of The Times, said in a statement Monday that Ms. Harman called Philip Taubman, then the Washington bureau chief of The Times, in October or November of 2004,” the Times writes. “Mr. Keller said she spoke to Mr. Taubman -- apparently at the request of Gen. Michael V. Hayden, then the N.S.A. director -- and urged that The Times not publish the article.”

“She did not speak to me,” Keller said in a statement, “and I don't remember her being a significant factor in my decision.”

In addition, “Shortly before the article was published more than a year later, in December 2005, Mr. Taubman met with a group of Congressional leaders familiar with the eavesdropping program, including Ms. Harman. They all argued that The Times should not publish,” they Times reporters added.

At the time of her calls in 2004, Harman was part of the Gang of 8 — one of eight powerful members of Congress who are briefed on heavily classified intelligence matters. She was the most senior Democrat in the House dealing with intelligence affairs, and was sidelined after the 2006 congressional elections.

“October or November” 2004 would have been the month before, or the month of, respectively, of the election that Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) lost to then-incumbent President George W. Bush.

The paper did not give the exact date of Harman’s call.

Harman’s role in the wiretapping scandal emerged after a story Sunday in Congressional Quarterly, which disclosed that the California Democrat had been caught on an NSA wiretap promising an Israeli agent that she’d lobby to get the charges for two Israeli lobbyists accused of espionage reduced. The Times expanded on the story today.

An “official with access to the transcripts said someone seeking help for the employees of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a prominent pro-Israel lobbying group, was recorded asking Ms. Harman, a longtime supporter of its efforts, to intervene with the Justice Department,” the paper wrote. “She responded, the official recounted, by saying she would have more influence with a White House official she did not identify.

“In return, the caller promised her that a wealthy California donor -- the media mogul Haim Saban -- would threaten to withhold campaign contributions to Representative Nancy Pelosi, the California Democrat who was expected to become House speaker after the 2006 election, if she did not select Ms. Harman for the intelligence post,” the paper added.

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Lawmaker Is Said to Have Agreed to Aid Lobbyists

By NEIL A. LEWIS and MARK MAZZETTI
Published: April 20, 2009

WASHINGTON — One of the leading House Democrats on intelligence matters was overheard on telephone calls intercepted by the National Security Agency agreeing to seek lenient treatment from the Bush administration for two pro-Israel lobbyists who were under investigation for espionage, current and former government officials say.

The lawmaker, Representative Jane Harman of California, became the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee after the 2002 election and had ambitions to be its chairwoman when the party gained control of the House in 2006. One official who has seen transcripts of several wiretapped calls said she appeared to agree to intercede in exchange for help in persuading party leaders to give her the powerful post.

One of the very few members of Congress with broad access to the most sensitive intelligence information, including aspects of the Bush administration’s wiretapping that were disclosed in December 2005, Ms. Harman was inadvertently swept up by N.S.A. eavesdroppers who were listening in on conversations during an investigation, three current or former senior officials said. It is not clear exactly when the wiretaps occurred; they were first reported by Congressional Quarterly on its Web site.

The official with access to the transcripts said someone seeking help for the employees of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a prominent pro-Israel lobbying group, was recorded asking Ms. Harman, a longtime supporter of its efforts, to intervene with the Justice Department. She responded, the official recounted, by saying she would have more influence with a White House official she did not identify.

In return, the caller promised her that a wealthy California donor — the media mogul Haim Saban — would threaten to withhold campaign contributions to Representative Nancy Pelosi, the California Democrat who was expected to become House speaker after the 2006 election, if she did not select Ms. Harman for the intelligence post.

Ms. Harman denied Monday having ever spoken to anyone in the Justice Department about Steven J. Rosen and Keith Weissman, the two former analysts for Aipac. Her office issued a statement saying, “Congresswoman Harman has never contacted the Justice Department about its prosecution of present or former Aipac employees.”

The statement did not, however, address whether Ms. Harman had contacted anyone at the White House or had participated in phone calls in which she was asked to intervene in exchange for help in being named chairwoman of the Intelligence Committee.

David Szady, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s former top counterintelligence official who ran the investigation of Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weissman, said in an interview Monday that he was confident Ms. Harman had never intervened. “In all my dealings with her, she was always professional and never tried to intervene or get in the way of any investigation,” Mr. Szady said.

The officials who were familiar with the transcripts, speaking on condition of anonymity because the issue involved intelligence matters, also said they knew of no evidence that Ms. Harman had intervened in the case.

One of the officials said he was familiar with the transcript of “at least one phone call” in which Ms. Harman discussed weighing in with the department on the investigation of the Aipac officials and her possible chairwomanship of the Intelligence Committee. (She did not get the post.) He identified the California donor as Mr. Saban, a vocal supporter of Israel who turned the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers into a global franchise.

The CQ article, citing unnamed present and former national security officials, said a preliminary review was halted by Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales because he wanted Ms. Harman’s support in dissuading The New York Times from running an article disclosing a program of wiretapping without warrants conducted by the National Security Agency.

Bill Keller, the executive editor of The Times, said in a statement Monday that Ms. Harman called Philip Taubman, then the Washington bureau chief of The Times, in October or November of 2004. Mr. Keller said she spoke to Mr. Taubman — apparently at the request of Gen. Michael V. Hayden, then the N.S.A. director — and urged that The Times not publish the article.

“She did not speak to me,” Mr. Keller said, “and I don’t remember her being a significant factor in my decision.”

Shortly before the article was published more than a year later, in December 2005, Mr. Taubman met with a group of Congressional leaders familiar with the eavesdropping program, including Ms. Harman. They all argued that The Times should not publish.

The former officials who spoke to The Times did not know about Mr. Gonzales’s reported role nor about Ms. Harman’s contacts with The Times. Aides to Mr. Gonzales declined to comment.

A spokesman for Mr. Saban did not return telephone calls. A spokesman for Ms. Pelosi said the speaker had no comment.

The possibility that Ms. Harman might be under investigation surfaced in news reports in 2006. The CQ report provided new details, including quotations attributed to the transcripts of one of Ms. Harman’s conversations. Ms. Harman, CQ said, told the person who requested her aid that she would “waddle in” to the matter, “if you think it would make a difference.” Before ending the call, CQ reported, Ms. Harman said, “This conversation doesn’t exist.”

It is unclear when this conversation was supposed to have taken place, but Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weissman were fired from Aipac in March 2005 and indicted a few weeks later. They were charged with violating the World War I-era Espionage Act when they shared with colleagues, journalists and Israeli Embassy officials information about Iran and Iraq they had learned from talking to high-level United States policy makers.

The trial of Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weissman seems on track to begin in June in Alexandria, Va.

David Johnston and James Risen contributed reporting.




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