Posted on 02/13/2009 5:05:23 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Predator drones flown from base in Pakistan, U.S. lawmaker says Sen. Feinstein's surprise disclosure likely to complicate joint campaign against Taliban militants
Greg Miller | Washington Bureau 7:06 PM CST, February 12, 2009
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A senior U.S. lawmaker said Thursday that unmanned CIA Predator aircraft operating in Pakistan are flown from an airbase inside that country, a revelation likely to embarrass the Pakistani government and complicate its counterterrorism collaboration with the United States.
The disclosure by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, marked the first time a U.S. official had publicly commented on where the Predator aircraft patrolling Pakistan take off and land.
At a hearing, Feinstein expressed surprise at Pakistani opposition to the ongoing campaign of Predator-launched CIA missile strikes against Al Qaeda targets along Pakistan's northwest border.
"As I understand it, these are flown out of a Pakistani base," she said of the planes.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Democraps are not fit to be in charge of things like this.
What a dumbass.
And dems are worried about Rep. Pete Hoekstra Twittering in Iraq?
Traitors both.
5.56mm
Firing Squad for DF
What ever happened to laws concerning treason ?
Are our lawmakers above the law? (dumb question, I guess)
So, Diane, where do the pilots’ families live, and what frequency are the drones controlled on? Come on, don’t tease us like that. We know you know more!
GMTA
What a dumbass broad. Talk about amateur hour.
As I recall, “Loose lips still sink ships.”
Thanks a lot, Mrs. Feinstein. You’re doing a fine job.
Ugh.
“We strongly object to Sen. Feinstein’s remarks being characterized as anything other than a reference” to a article that appeared last March in the Washington Post, LaVelle said. Feinstein did not refer to newspaper accounts during the hearing. Is this true?
And we thought the NYSlimes was the master of leaks that harmed America.
How do you like your ‘friends’ now, Obama!!!
Should be “hearing.”
“Is this true” is my question
Traitor. 10 Years in jail and I dont care if CA replaces her!
And the sad thing is she's the smarter of our two senatorettes here...
And the other blabber mouth idiot, Panetta, was confirmed yesterday. Not a word in the msm. Guess they were afraid the citizens would make too many phone calls to the senate.
And we have another idiot confirmed who was the author of albore’s ‘facts’ about global warming. He determined that billions will die in the near future because the oceans are going to rise.
This administration is filled with dangerous incompetent kooks.
NiceBeerMug shows ‘rat ignorance again.
What a silly cow.
AGAIN. IS IT TRUE THAT THIS WAS REVEALED BY THE WASHINGTON POST LAST MARCH? If so, the b!tch is off the hook.
Thank you, Leaky Feinstein, we all needed to know this
are you trying to get the govt of pakistan overthrown? sounds like it
God Help Us, the fools are running the asylum
complete idiot
Loose lips sink ships! Sheesh!
Nice OPSEC, Diane.
She’s obviously gone senile and can’t be trusted with a secret.
Hey Diane, maybe you’d like to provide directions to the homes of the folks who maintain the Predators as well... tell them where their security patrols as well? Stupid Effing ****.
>How do you like your ‘friends’ now, Obama!!!
He probably told her himself.
His name is “Hussein,” after all.
I think of this scenewhich seems to be every day with the
crap that’s coming from D.C.!
High treason is more like it. The ramifications of her little slip of the tongue to Pakistan and the image of the US will have just the disrupting influence she desires.
Remaining comments self censored.
Feinstein also let slip a critical bit of information about the Night Stalker serial killer, Richard Ramirez, when she was mayor of San Francisco. Screwed up the investigation so it took long to catch him. He was wearing a unique pair of sneakers & only one pair had been sold in the size worn by the Night Stalker
How she got to be a senator reflects poorly on the voters in California (freepers excluded as I know THEY wouldn’t vote for such an idiot)
I doesn't matter if it was in the Post a year ago. Fineswine has confirmed that the aircraft are still in Pakistan.
What a frikkin’ idiot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Has anyone here besides me actually read the article? I’d love to hang her out to dry, but if it was a news story a year ago? It’s nice to vent, but the facts gotta be right! Can’t read just the fragment posted here and get the whole story.
“Fineswine has confirmed that the aircraft are still in Pakistan.”
That’s a valid point! However, neither we, nor the Pakis have ever admitted that the drones flew/fly from Pakistan. At least I don’t recall such an admittance.
Treason in a time of war is punishable by death by firing squad.. I have a son in Spec Forces in afgahnistan and this bI@tch is trying to help get him killed Don’t ever let me find out she’s coming to SC. F__kin traitor
DE OPRESSO LIBER
Of course they’re above the law. They also don’t pay taxes, get the best health care, fly in private jets and have their own exclusive retirement program.
Please quote the alleged story.
One of my cousins is on a team that operates drones. I don’t know much about it, and I prefer it that. We’re not supposed to know this much. I wonder how many soldiers she hoped to kill with this revelation.
Didn’t you read the article? And my previous posts ask:”Is this true?” I can’t quote the story, and was asking if anyone had more info about it. It’s mentioned a couple of times in the linked article. So, I want to know, “Is it true?” I’m not absolving the witch of anything! But,,, I want the facts to be correct.
feinstein is a threat to National security.
The following is a Radio Interview that I arranged for Dr. Orly Taitz regarding her lawsuits against BO with Matthew Hill at the NRB Convention in Nashville on 2/10/09
http://www.irnusanews.com/our-programs/matthew-hill-show
What else is she going to tell the enemy!
Then go find them. Don't dismiss criticism based on sourceless speculation.
Ivan #1 to German commander: “Our Katyusha battalions are massing behind the tree line for a daybreak assault on your position.”
An hour later . . .
Ivan #2 to German commander: “Our Katyusha battalions are massing behind the tree line for a daybreak assault on your position.”
Two hours later . . .
Ivan #3 to German commander: “Our Katyusha battalions are massing behind the tree line for a daybreak assault on your position.”
Three hours later and T-minus 15 . . .
Ivan #4 to German commander: “Our Katyusha battalions are massing behind the tree line for a daybreak assault on your position.”
Which ONE is guilty of treason? Where and what is the difference? I am stumped.
The idiot has not yet learned that a Government in a tinderbox region might need to publicly say some things for domestic consumption while they are, behind the scenes, providing concrete support to your war effort.
Feinstein has now compromised the viability of this mission.
Without adult supervision, Democrats are too stupid and naive to survive in the Real World. We are in for some dangerous times.
It doesn't matter.
A claim reported in a newspaper is merely a claim reported in a newspaper. Is is useful for lining your bird cage.
A statement made by the chairperson of the Senate Intelligence Committee is a statement that has just been confirmed at one of the highest levels of the U.S. Government.
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=alate0108abulaith
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/03/27/ST2008032700935.html
Yes they are....
Land wrong at Grosse Ille Airport and you will find out....
I agree completely! I just wanted to know if that’s where she got her information, as they are claiming. Those two links above were all I could find, but I’m not too great with computers. Tried to go to C-Span earlier, and it locked my comp up solid! Had to unplug it.
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