Today Dianne Feinstein, who chairs the Senate's intelligence committee, publically
blew a gasket about the NSA spying on foreign leaders. “I am totally opposed to
this,” she declares.
What’s
troubling is that up to this moment, Feinstein has been one of the Senate’s
most vocal supporters of the NSA and its surveillance policies, defending its
practices whenever she had a chance. Just a day or two ago, she cut short a public
briefing when pressed by a reporter about domestic spying and why it’s not
contradicted by the fourth amendment. Today she’s in a snit.
Why
is it okay to trash the Constitutional rights of Americans, but not okay to
eavesdrop on the Chancellor of Germany? What are we, chopped liver? The
senator’s ire seems oddly timed and misplaced to me. Maybe the heat from the
public is finally getting to her and she pounced on an opportunity to find
fault with the agency she had so vigorously defended.
Does
she really believe that the eavesdropping on foreign leaders is the only time
the NSA has kept her out of the loop? Could she be that naïve (or frightened)?
The NSA has lied to Congress and the president often. Isn’t it about time it
faced some sort of punishment? If you or I blatantly and repeatedly lied to
Congress, we’d be serving time in prison.
Have
you finally found a pair, Dianne or will there be a short-lived brouhaha and
then it’s back to business as usual?
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