Nancy Pelosi= Good. Diane Feinstein= Bad.
Pelosi is fighting to make sure the congressional intelligence committees can conduct appropriate oversight of the Intelligence Community, including the CIA. Diane Feinstein is complaining about it.
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Oversight?
The 200,000-person US intelligence community costs $75 billion annually. That’s larger than the GDP’s of 130 countries in the world.
What has this vast expenditure produced? That would be interesting. But of course it’s classified so we’ll never know. In fact the intelligence expenditure itself was classified until Dennis Blair let it slip.
I completely agree. Feinstein is one of those borderline Dems – votes with us on enough important issues that I’d be loathe to lose her, but she’s not a progressive, and she’s quite a pro-intelligence hawk.
Pelosi is right to want oversight. I’d love to see her put some pressure on DiFi….
In 1978 after Milk and Moscone were assassinated I voted for Jello Biafra (lead singer of the Dead Kennedys) twice over Feinstein, who was a corporatist hack back then.
The world would have been a different and better place if Biafra had won.
Herb Caen was touting them to the max, along with the Fab Mab.
Never liked Di Fi; I hate the possibility that Boxer will go down in November. I really do.