Posted on 12/07/2014 8:53:13 AM PST by Nachum
As head of the Senate Intelligence Committee since 2009, Sen. Dianne Feinstein has spent hundreds of hours in secret briefings and seen thousands of pictures from battlefields in Syria, Iraq and Yemen. She keeps two images with her.
One shows a little girl wearing a gingham dress, white tights and black Mary Janes — but the girl's head is gone. Another is of a teenage boy, duct tape over his mouth, eyes bulging out, being forced to hold two severed heads.
"To me, it's what we are up against," Feinstein said in an interview. "It is a testament to pure evil."
The senior senator from California has spent more than 14 years on the Senate's most secretive committee, and through much of that time, she has defended the country's intelligence establishment.
She insisted that the National Security Agency was right to secretly collect data on huge numbers of telephone calls made by Americans. And she backed the CIA's covert use of Predator drones to conduct targeted killings in half a dozen nations.
But as she prepares to turn over the committee's gavel next month to Sen. Richard M. Burr (R-N.C.), Feinstein's tenure as chairwoman is closing amid an acrimonious fight over a project that pits her against the CIA. Her staff has completed a 6,000-page report evaluating and criticizing the agency's use during the George W. Bush years of harsh interrogation tactics, which President Obama and others have labeled as torture.
Since April, Feinstein has been fighting with the CIA and the White House to make public as much as possible of the report's 480-page executive summary.
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In my estimation she is a very intelligent woman. And is as much a patriot as any Democrat can be (though that sure isn’t saying a whole lot)
She is counting on option 3 - release the report and count on her allies in the lamestream media to give her cover when Americans are killed by terrorists as a result.
She is a Democrat. If the question is American lives or political advantage then political advantage will win every time.
While she compares favorably with her counterpart Barbara “dumb as a” Boxer, I can’t vouch for the intelligence of someone who sided with Obama on virtually every issue.
That said, any replacement would be worse. Californians are among the most politically unsophisticated in the country. I know because I lived there for twenty years.
Single party rule in Cali. LIVs easily Grubered.
Democrat Party picks candidates loyal to Party above all else. The LIVs simply vote them in.
I never thought she had much intelligence anyway.
I thought that they were going to write about Benghazi.
Feinstein’s staff illegally down loaded top secret information to their personal computers that they were supposed to “I camera”. Which means, look, but don’t touch, or copy.
They got caught and Feinstein has been protecting them ever since.
“To me, it’s what we are up against,” Feinstein said in an interview. “It is a testament to pure evil.”
WRONG.. muslims have been doing this for centurys...
It’s the American democrats that are pure evil..
Changing a wonderful system into a democracy.
“......but Kookifornica is majority too stupid to dump her...”
Now that is intelligent.
I hope she is haunted by all the dismembered unborn and those left to die who survived.
Don’t put Feinstein and intelligence in the same sentence.
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