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On [[CNN|CNN's]] [[Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer]], Harman responded to Pelosi's decision:

:''I am not angry. It was her choice. Obviously, I had hoped to stay. I thought I'd earned it and that it had been promised. But I think Silvestre Reyes is an excellent choice. He has my support. I'm going to stay in the game on these issues. Here I am, Wolf. But I also think that her majority is created by moderates and conservatives who won in Republican seats who talk tough and smart on security issues. And I will help them stay in Congress and help keep our majority in 2008.''[http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0612/10/le.01.html]

Nancy Pelosi was briefed about new CIA interrogation techniques, including waterboarding in 2002. Jane Harman was the only objector to the authorization of the techniques and filed a classified letter in February, 2003 related to this.

:''Harman, who replaced Pelosi as the committee's top Democrat in January 2003, disclosed Friday that she filed a classified letter to the CIA in February of that year as an official protest about the interrogation program. Harman said she had been prevented from publicly discussing the letter or the CIA's program because of strict rules of secrecy.''[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/08/AR2007120801664_pf.html]

During the 2006 takeover of the House, Jane Harman was inline for the Chairmanship of the Intelligence Committee. Nancy Pelosi passed over her and placed Reyes as the head of the Intelligence committee.

===Position on the [[US House Resolution 106]]===