Harman challenger: Top Dem "in the pocket" of AIPAC (Winograd seeks to rally base around flotilla)

Israel's deadly raid of a humanitarian aid flotilla on Monday could play a role in the final week of a key congressional primary.

Rep. Jane Harman, a highly visible California Democrat who has been a prominent voice in the national security debate, is being challenged in next Tuesday's primary by Marcy Winograd, a progressive who charges that Harman is "in the pocket of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee."

In a statement posted on her website on Monday, Winograd called for an international investigation into the flotilla raid and called Harman's refusal to speak out immediately on the issue "shameful." She also charged that Harman's lack of response indicated she approved of Israel's violent tactics and said her policies make her constituents less safe.

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If the brutality of the NuttyYahoo regime proved to be the final nail in Harman's political coffin.

Harman was well aware of Bush's illegal wiretapping of Americans and of torture, yet she kept her mouth shut.