CQ Politics had reported that Fort Meade's National Security Agency had picked up Harman allegedly asking the Bush administration to go easy on former AIPAC employees. Blair says it wasn't NSA, according to AP. NSA isn't supposed to eavesdrop on Americans in America. And it never does, right?

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — The National Security Agency did not place a wiretap that reportedly intercepted phone conversations made by Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., the top U.S. intelligence official said Monday.

Dennis Blair, the national intelligence director, declined to say which agency requested the reported wiretap and oversaw the information gleaned from Harman's conversations. Blair was speaking at the dedication of a new intelligence research facility.

The only other agency that has authority to place wiretaps on calls inside the United States is the Justice Department. It requires court approval.