Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D – CA), the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has made no bones about her support for NSA surveillance of all shapes and sizes, and has introduced legislation that would broaden the NSA’s power to surveil Americans.
She seems less concerned about the prospect of reform than in recent weeks, however, declaring metadata collection “here to stay” and that the “dominant majority” supports President Obama’s attempts to keep the NSA powers intact.
Senate Judiciary Chair Patrick Leahy (D – VT) is championing the biggest reform bill, but Feinstein says he simply doesn’t have the votes, insisting “privacy people don’t understand” the importance of the NSA’s spying on literally the entire human race.
Though its unclear if the Senate has the votes to pass any reforms, Sen. Mark Udall (D – CO) says he believes that either way the program won’t last beyond 2015, when the Patriot Act provision expires, and he believes Feinstein and the other surveillance hawks likewise don’t have the votes to keep the law in place.
The NSA and its apologists should get the same treatment as handed out to the STASI.
I sure hope her seat in the Senate isn't there to stay.
Feinstein is a sig Heil fascist if there ever was one. Her mug makes Hitler look handsome.
I pray the good people of California will kick Feinstein out of office in the next election. NSA puppet Feinstein made tens of millions of dollars off the Iraq war, and millions have been put in her campaign coffer from the lobbyists in support of STRATCOM and the NSA.
Apologize for the Stasi or the Soviet KGB you cow.