Stein calls Harman's phone-mate 'suspected Israeli double agent'

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Stein calls Harman's phone-mate 'suspected Israeli double agent' (No wonder he wants to sell movie rights)

On antiwar.com, there is a fine interview by Scott Horton of Jeff Stein of CQ, regarding his blockbuster story, in which Stein describes Harman's phone-mate of 2005 as a "suspected Israeli double agent" and suggests that the agent was not Haim Saban.
Key bits:

On hearing the tape, Justice Department lawyers' felt that they had caught Harman in a "completed crime" that demanded investigation. Stein defined completed crime as a "prima facie case that a crime was committed, in this case, that she did something in exchange for something, in other words, a sort of pay-for-play or influence peddling kind of thing... It looks like, by just merely promising to do that, merely promising to do that, she had committed a crime.... to do a favor in exchange for something of value, which is to say, to get appointed to be the chair of the House intelligence committee."

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Horton brings up Haim Saban.
But Stein says, We have not identified who the target was-- "who was the suspected Israeli double agent."
Horton asks about Saban a second time.
Stein: "I do not have that. I was told by one of my sources that he was not the target."
Did she know he was an agent of the Israeli government, rather than just an influential lobbyist?
"That is a really interesting question, which hasn't been answered yet."

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http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2009/04/stein-calls-harmans-phonemate-suspected-israeli-double-agent-no-wonder-he-wants-to-sell-movie-rights.html

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1. if this had been a spy from any other country Harman would be awaiting trial

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2. Haim Saban? The Power Rangers guy?

I can think of many reasons to arrest this guy, mostly having to do with really awful TV but he's a spy?