From Roll Call: Speaker Pelosi publicly confirms one part of the story about Rep. Jane Harman (D, Calif.):

“It was not my position to raise it with Jane Harman,” Pelosi told reporters at the Christian Science Monitor lunch. “In fact, I didn’t even know if what they were talking about was real. All they said was that she was wiretapped.”

CQ.com, citing anonymous sources, reported earlier this week that Harman had been caught on tape agreeing to help reduce charges against two AIPAC employees accused of espionage. In exchange, the New York Times has reported, her interlocutor allegedly offered to lobby Pelosi to make Harman chairman of the Intelligence Committee. The supposed threat to Pelosi was to be a cutoff of campaign donations from California billionaire Haim Saban.