Feinstein the War Profiteer Calls Snowden a Traitor

[Columbus Free Press]

From http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/13/2013/5057

Dianne Feinstein: War profiteer and war criminal
by Gerry Bello
July 5, 2013
Somewhere in northwest Pakistan Tuesday a sound was heard. Hellfire missiles streaked towards a residential compound. Eighteen people, possibly including civilians, were incinerated and another sound was heard in Washington: the sound of change dropping into Dianne Feinstein's purse.

Since the beginning of the recent revelations of a vast system of American and British government spying on nearly every person on Earth, Senator Feinstein has been quick to be at the forefront of defending these programs and denouncing leaker Edward Snowden as a "traitor." Does she mean that Snowden has betrayed America, or betrayed her own profits from illegal surveillance, indefinite detention and extrajudicial murder?

Feinstein's political fortunes rest not on representing the human rights values of her base in San Francisco, but on the considerable fortune of her husband, investment banker Richard Blum. This fortune, although technically separated from hers by various trusts, has been greatly enhanced by the war on terror. Blum's war profiteering is anchored by his Blum Capital group, which owns major defense contractor URS. Blum also has ownership interest in a defunct cargo airline with defense department contracts, Astar Cargo, and a major construction firm with major contracts for the military as well as civilian reconstruction contracts with Iraq.

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1. Dear dear Dianne ...

My oh my oh my ...

War criminal dare one say?

[Columbus Free Press]

3. Yes

If a war crime is committed, and one profits from said crime, one shares in that crime.

What's that red stuff on your hands Dianne?

[Octafish]

2. This topic goes to the heart of darkness that is Wall Street on the Potomac.

First off: Thank you for a great article, Columbus Free Press! The corruption is Buy-Partisan and most-sickening.

URS is not Feinstein's only contribution to the global war on terror. Until it shut down in June 2012, Richard Blum had a major stake Astar Air Cargo. Astar had an air freight contract for CENTCOM. It also had a regular cargo route from Norfolk Naval Air Station to America's infamous extra-territorial prison at Guantanamo Bay. The Free Press could not obtain cargo manifests for the flights so it is unknown if the cargo consisted of replacement truncheons, feeding tubes or actual detainees.

The only cure is what you are doing: Exposing the warmongers and banksters to the light of day.

My little reminder: STRATFOR and Goldman Sachs making beautiful bloody green NSA-inspired music together:

Wikileaks Release Suggests Stratfor Inside Info Plan with Goldman Sachs Exec

By Ryan Villarreal: Subscribe to Ryan's RSS feed
IBTimes.com
February 27, 2012 6:26 PM EST

WikiLeaks released more than 5 million e-mails Monday hacked from U.S.-based global intelligence firm Strategy Forecasting Inc. (Stratfor), revealing an alleged plan between the firm's CEO and a Goldman Sachs executive to set up an investment fund that would rely on inside information gathered by the company.

A September 2011 company-wide e-mail composed by Stratfor CEO George Friedman indicates that Goldman Sachs financial adviser and former Managing Director Shea Morenz was directly involved in the establishment of the investment fund StratCap.

"Shea Morenz provided us with two opportunities," wrote Friedman.

"First, he made an investment in Stratfor designed to give us the capital needed to build our staff and our marketing. Second, he proposed a new venture, StratCap, which would allow us to utilize the intelligence we were gathering about the world in a new but related venue -- an investment fund. Where we had previously advised other hedge funds. We would now have our own, itself fully funded by Shea."

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http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/305532/20120227/wikileaks-stratfor-stratcap-goldman-sachs-fund-julian.htm

Getting obvious that there is plenty of room on the bus for DiFi and her entourage, but no seat or standing-room for peaceniks and losers like me who flunked out of Hardbar High.

[Scurrilous]

4. LOL

"Since the beginning of the recent revelations of a vast system of American and British government spying on nearly every person on Earth.."

Truth to the Power, man!

[SugarShack]

5. DiFi is a war criminal and should be primaried...right out of the senate. She so bought & paid for!

[truedelphi]

6. How did it come to this - that a plucky young woman who

was an early on success (City Council, San Francisco,) became inspired only by her activities involved in thwarting ethics, and voting for war, and helping her husband make oodles of bloody profit, people's lives and fortunes be damned, all for the sake of money?

[Nanjing to Seoul]

7. Let's not forget her fake tears when Harvey Milk was assassinated.

DiFi sucks. Opportunistic DINO.

[delrem]

8. Good post. It's most obvious: primary her, get rid of her.

It's a sad thing that so much of the Dem Party is like her.
Primary them all!

If there is any time to raise our voices it is THIS!

It's time to take back democracy!