Nancy Pelosi today admitted that she knew the National Security Agency had wiretaps of Rep. Jane Harman.

Speaking at a reporter roundtable, Pelosi said that though she had been informed, she was not in a position to tell Harman the truth. "Even if I wanted to share it with her I would not have had the liberty to share it with her," said the House Speaker, according to Newsweek. The remark contradicts Pelosi’s comments yesterday, when she said she didn’t know anything about possible NSA wiretaps of Harman offering assistance in disrupting a Justice Department investigation of two pro-Israeli lobbyists accused of espionage. Said Pelosi yesterday, "I do think that I don’t know that Congressman Harman was wiretapped, I mean somebody was wiretapped and there may have been a conversation."

The person Harman was speaking with, Haim Saban, said that if the Democrat helped him, he would urge Pelosi to make her chairwoman of the House Intelligence Committee. Pelosi said Saban had approached her about Harman, but insisted the wiretaps had nothing to do with Harman not getting the position. Via The New York Times:

The only reason Jane is not the chairman is because she already served the two terms. It had nothing to do with her position on Iraq. It had nothing to do with donors, nothing to do with eavesdropping, wiretapping. It had nothing to do with anything. It had only to do with the fact that this extraordinarily talented member of Congress had served her two terms.

Whatever the reason, this story — and who knew what when — will only get more complicated as the weeks go on. Harman spoke out yesterday and demanded that Attorney General Eric Holder release the transcripts.