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Comments (0)U.S. Rep. Jane Harman has been told she is not under investigation by the Justice Department.
Harman (D-Calif.) has released a letter her lawyer received from the department earlier this month stating that Harman “is neither a subject nor a target of an ongoing investigation by the Criminal Division.”
News reports in April revealed that a conversation in which she allegedly agreed to intervene on behalf of two AIPAC staffers charged with passing classified information had been wiretapped by the government.
Harman denied the allegations and asked that the Justice Department release any tapes it had of her conversations. The government case against the AIPAC staffers was dropped shortly after the reports of the Harman wiretap.
“Earlier this year, I was the subject of media reports concerning transcripts of alleged government wiretaps,” Harman said in a statement that accompanied the letter. “To date, there has been no official confirmation that such transcripts exist or are accurate, and I have written to Attorney General Holder asking for full disclosure.”
Massad Gets Tenure at Columbia
The Columbia University professor who reportedly asked an Israeli student how many Palestinians he had killed was given tenure.
The university approved Joseph Massad’s bid for tenure, his second attempt, earlier this month, according to the New York Post.
Massad was at the center of a controversy several years ago over scholarly treatment of Israel at Columbia.
In addition to the comment about killed Palestinians, Massad was accused of mistreating and intimidating students whose pro-Israel views differed from his own.
Massad denied many of the allegations and claimed he was the target of a “witch hunt.”
A university probe into the matter substantiated some of the claims against him and found that in one instance, he had exceeded “commonly accepted bounds” of behavior.
Calif. Professor Cleared in Anti-Israel E-mail
A professor at a California university was cleared of alleged faculty misconduct for sending an e-mail to students comparing Israel’s policies in Gaza to the Nazis.
A committee at the University of California, Santa Barbara, found last week that there was no reason to order a full investigation of or to discipline sociology professor William Robinson, according to reports.
Robinson in January sent an e-mail to the students of his Sociology of Globalization class that included an article criticizing Israel’s military action in Gaza, including photos showing Nazis persecuting Jews during the Holocaust juxtaposed with photos of Israel’s military activity in Gaza.