Pelosi: I Knew Harman Was Wiretapped

By Will McCahill, Newser Staff

Posted Apr 22, 2009 2:08 PM CDT

(Newser) – 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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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks on Capitol Hill. (AP Photo)

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, right, participates in a ceremonial swearing-in with new Rep. Mike Quigley, D-Ill., yesterday. (AP Photo)

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I was not in a position to raise it with Jane Harman. All they said was that she was wiretapped. When you are briefed on something it isn’t your role to share it with anybody else. - Nancy Pelosi

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