CIA “whistleblower” told former House Speaker Hastert about suppression of Harman wiretap

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Former House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert says he learned from a CIA-connected "whistleblower" in 2006 that Bush administration officials were suppressing the existence of a wiretapped conversation between Rep. Jane Harman and a suspected Israeli agent.

John D. Negroponte, former head of the then newly established Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), had blocked then CIA Director Porter J. Goss from briefing Hastert, according to the account the whistleblower gave the former Republican House speaker.

Gen. Michael V. Hayden , who became CIA director upon Goss's forced resignation in May 2006, also had not informed Hastert about the wiretap, according to what the whistleblower told Hastert's aides.