I don’t know. I don’t know if Dianne is shrewd, senile, or lucky. Maybe she sat on the now famous letter because she was afraid to do anything else. Maybe she “arranged” to have herself pressured so that she would have “no choice” but to do whatever it is she wanted to do. But however…
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Michael V. Hayden seriously full of it, says Sen. Dianne Feinstein
Never piss off a United States senator. There once was no greater advocate of the “War on Terror” than California Senator Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee until the Republicans took over in 2014. But the CIA, in a classic case of compulsive over-reaching, tried to strong-arm her and her committee, turning a…
Meanwhile, in other torture news
The bad news is that the Obama Administration is 99% behind the CIA’s “tain’t nobody’s business if we spy (on the U.S. Congress), lie, and torture” stance on, well, spying, lying, and torture. The further bad news is that Republican Sen. Richard Burr1 of North Carolina, incoming chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, wants to…
Dianne Feinstein, profile in about as much courage as we’re going to find these days
Like a lot of people, I’ve felt that Cal. Sen. Dianne Feinstein never objected to the CIA spying on people until she found out they were spying on her. Nonetheless, the senator has done something, in a city that, when it comes to the staggering series of crimes, lies, and abuses that have occurred during…
Obamamotto: Hate the torture, love the torturer. A lot.
“The creatures outside looked from CIA to Obama, and from Obama to CIA, and from CIA to Obama again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” George Orwell remains unfortunately on-point 30 years after, thanks to the absolute determination of our “most open administration in history” president to ensure that there shall…
Dianne Feinstein, Pretty but Dumb, or Pretty Dumb?
Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, led off her committee’s hearing on John Brennan’s nomination to be head of the CIA by proudly announcing that the CIA’s “Death from the Skies” drone program, which is pretty much John’s baby, had been able to keep civilian casualties “in the single digits” for each year…