Senator Condi Rice
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Posted on 01/13/2006 10:57:54 AM PST by Battle Hymn of the Republic
Feinstein demands Rumsfeld explain UCSC spying
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, wants an explanation about reports of Pentagon spying at UC Santa Cruz as well as other surveillance of U.S. citizens.
Feinstein wrote Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in a letter dated Tuesday asking him to explain the practices and authority of the Counter Intelligence Field Activity in collecting information in the course of its domestic investigations.
In December, NBS news aired a string of reports based on Pentagon documents that listed 1,500 "suspicious" activities during a 10-month period. NBC interviewed experts who said the Pentagon had overstepped its bounds in collecting information in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. One of the incidents that caught the eyes and ears of the agency was an April 5 protest against military recruiters at a job fair at UC Santa Cruz.
That protest led to the job fair getting shut down temporarily and the injury of a UC Santa Cruz staffer.
The military recruiters left the fair.
"What Department of Defense components are authorized to collect or maintain information on U.S. Persons on U.S. territory without court approval?" Feinstein wrote. "Under what circumstances are Department of Defense components authorized to collect, report, maintain, database, analyze, fuse or otherwise handle information concerning U.S. Persons engaged in activities protected by the First Amendment?"
Feinstein asked Rumsfeld to respond to her letter by Jan. 31.
About 200 students showed up at the military recruitment protest last spring. The incident was one of many anti-war protests listed in the document and posted on the NBC news Web site.
UC Santa Cruz student Josh Sonnenfeld, a member of the group Students Against the War that organized the protest, said Feinstein was on the right track.
"It's nice to hear Feinstein is asking some important questions to Rumsfeld and the Department of Defense," he said.
Feinstein's letter said her staff had met with Pentagon personnel who confirmed that a report on student protests had been written.
Last month, U.S. Rep. Sam Farr, D-Carmel, said he was "shocked" and "appalled" by the matter and would be looking for answers about it from the Department of Defense when its budget comes up for review.
Feinstein won't be satisfied until there's another attack with hundreds or thousands dead. She's an idiot.
One look at the population of UC Santa Cruz and that would be explanation enough.
Commish demands Fienstien explain why she is such an anti-American b*tchy windbag!!!
So....they had a public protest and now they're mad that someone noticed them out in public...?
I only wish Condi Rice would come home this year to run against this gasbag DiFi in November...
"Rumsfeld demands Feinstein STFU"
Now there's a headline.
Hey Diane...just keep sitting on your fat ass and doing nothing, but STFU when it comes to MY SECURITY - B*TCH!!
I hope Rumsfeld throws her letter in the trash where it belongs and tells her to go to hell.
I want Feinstein to explain why her party is a bunch of traitors!
The enemies in question are enemies of the Republic.
Dianne, there is only one way for you to be safe from the evil Rumsfeld and his men, and that is for you to secede from the Union and build a wall so that we can't get in. Better get to work because we're coming after you.
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"UC Santa Cruz student Josh Sonnenfeld, a member of the group Students Against the War that organized the protest, said Feinstein was on the right track."
My policy is ignore whatever a banana slug has to say.
First let Feinstein explain her face. It looks like nothing human I've eever seen before.
Such spying, if authorized, get's authorized by the justice department, not Rumsfeld.
This is pure political B.S.
Probably just spying where the foreign agents are.
Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha lmao
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