Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman and outspoken surveillance enthusiast Dianne Feinstein (D – CA) has demanded today during the committee hearing that the American press stop referring to the NSA surveillance programs as “surveillance programs.”
During the comments, Sen. Feinstein insisted that it was unfair of the media to the telephone surveillance scheme as a “surveillance program” because it “just collects metadata.”
Hilariously enough, Sen. Feinstein has been referring to the surveillance programs as “these surveillance programs” in her own form letters sent to worried constituents defending them for months.
The change in rhetoric appears to reflect the NSA’s own decision to stop talking so much about the program itself and instead angrily attack the media, claiming that American outrage over its privacy violations are simply a product of “irresponsible” media coverage of classified programs.
Sounds like Feinstein is cracking up. Hae not heard anymore about the Schumer, Durbin, Feinstein triage that wants to make it illegal to web blog about national security issues.
Spying on someone or a group or a nation and etc. In the technical world of today 2013, effective spying needs a surveillance technic to have a "Spying" system that based on surveillance/s of all kind to prove that modernized spying system is in effect, listening to phone calls is spying looking at people's emails is spying, when you do the same thing with other nation is also spying.
Now if such modernized technic is not spying then it must be surveillance that spy's on those that are…… Whatever. The beginning of NSA is the end of CIA and NSA is answers only to USG, so the entire argument is not about democracy, but rather is about what would happen to it.
How about instead that the public's outrage is over Sen. Feinstein's failure to exercise any meaningful oversight over these SURVEILLANCE programs, or her failure to place any restraints on the NSA or any of the other SURVEILLANCE agencies, or her failure to represent her constituents or any other Americans with respect to their rights to be free of unreasonable SURVEILLANCE.
It really is time that her colleagues, starting with Harry Reid, dump her from her chairmanship of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and put someone else more in keeping with their interests.
The woman is an outrage and has made so many mistakes on so many issues that she really shouldn't be in the Senate at all.
:…failure to exercise any meaningful oversight…place any restraints…represent her constituents…with respect to their rights to be free of unreasonable SURVEILLANCE…"
She, and most of her fellow miscreants in Congress have little interest in correcting any of those issues you point out. In fact, the opposite is true because they know what is best for America and the sooner the American people realize that the goal of those we elect, over and over again, is to limit those rights the American people continue to think they have. Shortly after the Founders signed the documents, the government began the process of restricting those delineated freedoms under the guise of protecting those freedoms. And because the American people are generally lazy they allowed the elected to convince the sheep that they always have the best interest of the American people at heart.
FAIL…on all counts.
Control c*nt.
Lady Gestapo would be a more polite moniker
Lady Gestapo is a more PC version of the same idea
And the jackass is also pushing, with Schumer, the Media Shield law, both of them trying to wrap this piece of legislation in a cloak of nobility, when in fact, it seems written to limit the free expression of ideas and thoughts. No doubt both of them probably have Israel and its critics in mind when they helped to draft this bill.
Would that be the same enlightened couple who picked (or should that be AIPACed?) Mukasey for AG after he confessed to not knowing if waterboarding was torture?
Someone needs to corral this crazy cow and send her back to the barn.
Seriously can't stand this bitch. Wish she would just die off already.
Every problem is a messaging problem.
This woman is just insufferable. If this is what passes for "liberalism" these days, count me out.
Reminds me of a conversation I had just yesterday with a nice, intelligent young woman who agreed that the TSA had made travelling less pleasant (she had a story of her own about being pulled aside because something on her clothes was setting something off) but said she still liked the TSA. Apparently it makes her feel more secure. I had a near meltdown.
Oh dear, poor little Diane has stamped her foot– if only she had decided to hold her breath till she turns blue.
One of the great mysteries of life, that i have never been able to fathom, is why people who are serial screwers of other human beings become so outraged when those being screwed have the temerity to complain in accurate English.
A second attribution on the same theme:
Hasn't anyone told her that she was wiretapped by them also?
Radio station KGO's host Pat Thurston interview on
6pm Saturday
9/22/13
Former NSA analyst and whistle-blower Russell Tice has revealed that he was personally involved in wiretapping Obama in 2004, Dianne Feinstein and many others. He's in the studio with Pat for the hour.
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Feinstein is a loyal Jew and looks out for Israel first and foremost. Israel wants to surveillance data on America to be able to disrupt any groundswell against the despicable "special relationship" that has so phukkt up this country. Feinstein's job is to protect and defend Israeli's bloodsucking of NSA.
That thing called Feinstein is not only ugly; she's stupid too.
Feinstein needs to stop breathing. and who elected her Pope anyway?
well what pray tell would she prefer they call the UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND ILLEGAL SURVEILLANCE?
some orwellian doublespeak fuzzy innocuous word?