Good ol' DiFi: Feinstein vows to kill Leahy's NSA bill

[cali]

Two powerful Senate Democrats are poised for a battle over the National Security Agency's surveillance powers.

At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday, Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) said he will push legislation to end the NSA's controversial program to collect records on all U.S. phone calls. He argued that the program invades Americans' privacy rights while doing little to thwart terrorist attacks.

But Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, argued that the phone data program is critical for protecting national security.

"I will do everything I can to prevent this program from being canceled," Feinstein said during the hearing.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/326177-feinstein-vows-to-kill-leahys-nsa-bill#ixzz2ggNaJJ6n
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[SwampG8r]

1. she should be recused

her husband has a conflict of interests

[arthritisR_US]

2. She should be careful, the DINO's are extinct ;)n/t

[leftyohiolib]

6. who need the repubes we got difi

[dogknob]

7. She was primaried by Dems and had a Repub opponent last time - one just batty enough...

...to remind Dem voters in CA to heed DiFi's long-standing promise to her constituents:

"It's either me or a basket of asps."

She came to prominence largely due to the work of a frustrated Rethug who decided to shut down the government in 1978...

She's a Rethug in Dem clothing, which is just fine with Rethugs.

[Egalitarian Thug]

4. As my grandmother used to say, "crooked as a dog's hind leg".

The worst Democrat in DC.

[truebluegreen]

10. ^^This^^

[DirkGently]

5. Gack. She is not helping. n/t

[Comrade Grumpy]

8. She needs to retire--or be retired.

[Wilms]

9. ^

[BlueCheese]

11. Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein.

Who would have thought that these three would be the key players in expanding and defending our monstrous surveillance state?

I hope amid all the furor over the government shutdown and near-war in Syria (remember that?), we didn't miss our moment to rein in our domestic intelligence programs.

[adirondacker]

12. WTF Einstein! This is one politician the Dems need to dump. Excess Baggage, nt