And the New York TImes is part of this scandal

"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 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." Although I have been critical of the thesis of Mersheimer and Walt, but I have to admit that this article and the story only validate some of their claim of the power of the pro-Israel lobby. And by the way, do you know that this Saban guy is the one who funds the Martin Indyk shop at Brookings? And do you know that this Saban guy met with Emir of Qatar and tried to buy AlJazeera to make it pro-Israeli? I am not making this up.