Pelosi Knew Harman was Wiretapped

Your Gaggler just attended a reporter roundtable with Speaker Nancy Pelosi where she divulged that she had been informed in a confidential briefing that her colleague Jane Harman had been wiretapped but, due to strict intelligence rules, she was unable to speak about it with anyone, including Harman.

It's no secret on Capitol Hill that Pelosi and Harman, who differed fiercely on Iraq, aren't BFF. But today, Pelosi took great pains to explain that it was the House tradition of serving only two terms that had barred Harman from the Chair she sought. 

Pelosi was also asked about possible investigations into the use of coercive interrogation techniques. The Speaker reiterated her support for a Truth Commission to look into the issue. She said she would not like to see immunity taken off the table, but nor would she support blanket immunity being granted.

And, on Earth Day, she had a message for the coal industry: "I have your interests at heart." After instructing a staffer to bring from her office a sculpture of a coal miner that her father had given her, she told reporters that "coal pollutes the air, there's just no question about that", but that coal companies would not be left out in the cold as Congress pursues energy legislation. She'd like to see investments in technology which would mitigate the effects of coal, like carbon sequestration, rather than eliminating it from the energy equation altogether. "We're all going down that path together or else we can't go down that path, and we must," she said.