Beware a Woman Scorned: Sen. Feinstein Finally Goes after the CIA, not for Lying to and Spying on US

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Beware a Woman Scorned: Sen. Feinstein Finally Goes after the CIA, not for Lying to and Spying on US
by Dave Lindorff | March 14, 2014 - 8:58am

Of all the people to come to the rescue of the Constitution, who would have thought it would be Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA).

Feinstein, after all, as head of the Senate Intelligence Committee since 2009, has yet to see an NSA violation of the Constitution, an invasive spying program or a creative “re-interpretation” of the law that she hasn’t applauded as being lawful and “needed” to “keep people safe.”

Feinstein, too, was one of the first to fly into paroxysms of outrage at National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, absurdly condemning him for being a “traitor,” though she surely knows that the Constitution very narrowly defines treason as “levying war” against the US, or providing “aid and comfort to the enemy,” and as Snowden surely did not “levy war” against anyone but perhaps the NSA, and even according to the government did not provide any information to America’s “enemies” (whoever that may be in today’s unipolar world).

Feinstein, lastly, in her position as chair of the Senate Military Construction and Appropriations Subcommittee, grew fat and rich thanks to military contracts made to her husband, private equity and real-estate tycoon Richard Blum.