Feinstein Says She Was Rebuffed

Mercury News ^ | May 18 '02 | Jim Puzzanghera

[joesnuffy]

WASHINGTON - Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said Friday that she had repeatedly tried to warn the White House last summer about serious problems identifying potential terrorism, but was finally told by a top official the day before the Sept. 11 attacks that it would be six months before he could review her remedies.

[joesnuffy]

Lets see...she is against the right of individual citizens (except the elite) to keep and bear arms for family and self protection..but she is anti-terrorist. What an opportunistic...........

[jimkress]

So Feinstein now claims she is a psychic, too?

Does she read palms, examine tea leaves, or just interpret the entrails of freshly killed goats?

[Aaron_A]

And did Diane just wake up from her 8 year slumber last July?

[blam]

"Feinstein is known as a moderate "

I should have quit reading right here.

[Bubba_Leroy]

Yeah, right. So why didn't she warn Clinton?

Oh, I forgot. Clinton was too busy getting serviced.

Well if she really cared about America she would have gotten a pair of knee pads and kneeled down to talk to the head that did all of Clinton's thinking.

[GreatOne]

She's a lying sack of s---! What an absolute f---ing disgrace!! "Oh, I knew it was coming all along".

B.S.!!!!!!!!!

On another note, know why we blame Clinton? Because he was in charge for the previous 8 years. He did little to nothing to go after terrorists. He put his tail between his legs and pulled our military out of Somalia, emboldening the terrorists. He had Arafat over to the White House every other weekend. He and his ilk have defunded our intelligence agencies for years. He and his ilk have harmed and debased our military preparedness. So on, etc. May Clinton burn in the everlasting hellfire he so richly deserves.

[demkicker]

I saw little Timmy Russert lob this Feinstein diddy to Cheney on Meet The Depressed. Cheney calmly stated that his recollection of Feinstein's accusations are completely different. He said that the administration was already working on their own counter-terrorism plans and that Feinstein was trying to push legislation.

Cheney said the administration wanted to get their plan worked out and in place before getting involved in adding to it through legislation. He explained it so well that it made Di Fi look like the whiney partisan we all love to hate.

[billybudd]

I don't understand, why didn't Feinstein say anything about this before now, like sometime in the past 6 months? Better yet, if she took those warnings so seriously before 9/11 (which is total B.S., of course), then why didn't she b!tch to the press then?

[varon]

So Feinstein now claims she is a psychic, too?

Perhaps she's angling for Miss Cleo's job ;-) ?

[Ciexyz]

Another pot shot from a California Dem.

[JCG]

[Clinton] put his tail between his legs and pulled our military out of Somalia, emboldening the terrorists.

Sure did, after he and Les Aspin got a bunch of our Rangers killed.

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[mountaineer]

``Senator Feinstein, in July of 2001, on CNN, on Wolf Blitzer's program, said, and I quote, `Intelligence staff have told me that there is a major probability of a terrorist incident within the next three months,' '' Fleischer said.

Memo to DemoRats: A warning that "something might happen, sometime, somewhere" isn't really a warning, and clearly is insufficient to warrant a shutdown of air traffic, massive security measures or any other drastic response. The Dems remind me of my mentally handicapped brother-in-law, God bless him, who is inclined to mutter repeatedly to himself comments like "Something's gonna happen. It's going down."

[G.Mason]

"And did Diane just wake up from her 8 year slumber last July?"

Well...........two of us get it.

Perhaps even three?

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

Feinstein is known as a moderate "

I see this in lots of news sources and never could figure out how people came to this conclusion then I guess the mainstream press who agree with her on most everything probably think they are moderate

[OldFriend]

Your comment reinforces the thought that when some people get tired of playing in the dirt they drop in and play on the internet. Go back to the dirt.......

[Ole Okie]

The Dems remind me of my mentally handicapped brother-in-law, God bless him, who is inclined to mutter repeatedly to himself comments like "Something's gonna happen. It's going down."

There was a guy in my home town long ago whose dipstick was about three quarts low.

He would say repeatedly to anyone who would listen: "I fear there is something wrong, and I know not what it is."

He had to be right sometime.

[BlessedByLiberty]

Better yet, it is one of those widely known "secrets" that both she and BabsBoxer pack and carry.

Cheney said on Russert that yes she did try to contact him, but it was about LEGISLATION, not to impart her so-called knowledge of an impending attack.

Babs and Feiny best watch their comments, because as we all know...they allowed Clinton to remain in office and destroy the guts of the intelligence community.

[scouse]

I remember the first time she was buffed, she came up a nice socialist red color. I didn't know she had been buffed again.