CounterPunch - It is astounding to find that one of the handful of prospects being floated to become CIA director following the fall of General David Petraeus is a person reportedly implicated in a 2005 Israeli spy scandal.

CNN, Politico, and others have all listed former Congresswoman Jane Harman as a potentiasal new CIA head. Oddly, however, none have mentioned reports in 2006 and again in 2009 that an NSA wiretap in 2005 had picked up Harman promising a suspected Israeli agent that she would aid people indicted for espionage on behalf of Israel.

An Internet video production and dissemination organization today features a video (see below) highlighting the difference between US news coverage of a Pakistani girl who was tragically shot in the head, reportedly by the Taliban, and the lack of coverage of the numerous Palestinian children shot in the head by Israeli forces.

Yesterday, the New York Times and CNN published news reports about Israeli strikes against Gaza that killed one Palestinian and injured eight civilian bystanders. In her report, the New York Times reporter – Isabel Kershner, an Israeli citizen – mentioned that several Israeli goats had been killed by Palestinian rockets but failed to report that among the Palestinian civilians injured in the Israeli attack were a one month old, a two year old, a three year old, and a 10 year old. In fact, Kershner failed to even mention that Palestinian children had been injured.

The CNN report on the Israeli attack did mention that children had been injured but failed to tell anything about them. The photo that CNN used for the article was of a damaged motorcycle. It did not publish any of the photos of the toddlers injured in the attack.

Today, a Palestinian human rights group in Gaza has published two additional photos of these children with information about them and their parents. The report also describes Israel's numerous assassinations of Palestinian suspects, a practice that frequently also includes the injuring and/or killing of numerous civilians, quite often children. Below is the report:

The Israeli army's chief of staff states that in the past three years, "US taxpayers have contributed more to the Israeli defense budget than Israeli taxpayers," according to a report in the Jerusalem Post, a prominent Israeli newspaper.

Fox19, Reality Check with Ben Swann – News videos show how the Democratic National Committee scripted a vote to change the party's platform one week after the Republican leadership did the same thing at the Republican National Convention.

In both cases the teleprompters' scripts announced that two-thirds of the delegates had voted for the party leaderships' resolutions, when in actuality this had not occurred.

In the Republican situation the scripted announcement had been to keep out Ron Paul delegates, most of whom oppose interventionist wars, and many of whom support ending aid to Israel.

In the Democratic case this had been to push through an Israel-Lobby amendment; see The Democrats’ Jerusalem Arithmetic: When Israel is concerned, half = two-thirds

The following video by reporter Ben Swann broadcast on his Reality Check program on Cincinnati's Fox19 skewers party leaders for not caring what their delegates want and the media for not reporting on both incidents equally.

Swann is an award-winning journalist who has received an Edward R. Murrow Award and two Emmy's for his reports.

Not often is a political fix so public.

The Democratic committee that develops the party’s campaign platform recently failed to include the apparently obligatory “Jerusalem is and will remain the capital of Israel” pronouncement.