Harman "waddles in" at AIPAC

Jane Harman continues to act like she has nothing to hide, appearing today at the annual AIPAC policy conference in Washington.

Harman was greeted warmly, and gave a few remarks on her wiretapped phone call -- in which she is alleged to have promised to help two AIPAC defendants in exchange for lobbying support in her bid to become House Intelligence chair.

She reiterated her call for release of the transcript of the wiretapped call. She praised this editorial in the Wall Street Journal, which takes her side in the wiretapping saga and calls the AIPAC prosecution an "attempted criminalization of policy differences." She warned that the wiretapping could create a "chilling effect" on members of Congress who might want to talk with AIPAC or other lobbying groups about policy.

And she said this, about the notion that she supported the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program:

"I know about the Constitution, I believe in the Constitution, I believe in the Fourth Amendment and I have never ever supported warrantless wiretaps on Americans, nor would I."

Meet the Press, Feb. 12, 2006:

I support the program, I've never flinched from that.

UPDATE: Salon's Glenn Greenwald piles on.