Posted Tuesday, April 21, 2009, at 6:39 AM ET

The New York Times leads with word that Rep. Jane Harman, a California Democrat who has long been involved in intelligence matters, agreed to push for leniency from the Bush administration on behalf of two lobbyists of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israel organization. In calls intercepted by the National Security Agency, Harman apparently agreed to speak up for the lobbyists in exchange for help in convincing party leaders that she should be the chairwoman of the House Intelligence Committee after her party gained control of Congress in 2006. The wiretapped calls were first reported by Congressional Quarterly and the NYT gets three sources to confirm much of the information. The Wall Street Journal banners word that cyberspies managed to repeatedly penetrate the Pentagon's $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter, the "Defense Department's costliest weapons program ever," as well as the Air Force's air traffic control system. The spies were even able to copy "several terabytes" of data relating to the fighter-jet program.