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TDale313

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23. Yeah, I have the sneaking suspicion...

Reply to Uncle Joe (Reply #22)

Mon Oct 28, 2013, 09:57 PM

Oct 2013

That very little of this is about keeping us safe. It's about political power and it's about a national security apparatus that's making some people a hell of a lot of money.

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Feinstein: "Totally Opposed" to spying on world leaders, wants "total review" of intel programs [View all] BluegrassStateBlues Oct 2013 OP

When you've lost Feinstein in Intel, Intel has been caught with their pants down n/t SamYeager Oct 2013 #1

LOL, pretty much. Heads will roll now. nt BluegrassStateBlues Oct 2013 #2

Yep, that's the other shoe. nt bemildred Oct 2013 #5

Feinstein....wow, just wow! nadinbrzezinski Oct 2013 #3

Perhaps it finally occurred to her TDale313 Oct 2013 #4

You mean like Russ Tice alleged a few years ago? nadinbrzezinski Oct 2013 #6

One would think after the NSA's phone tapping of Senators Frank Church and Howard Baker Uncle Joe Oct 2013 #22

Yeah, I have the sneaking suspicion... TDale313 Oct 2013 #23

They won't get full disclosure unless Poppy Bush gives the go ahead. nt DURHAM D Oct 2013 #7

If her test for spying depends upon whether the US is engaged in hostilities, why have NSA funds AnotherMcIntosh Oct 2013 #8

I agree senator, no more Kabuki theater! Rex Oct 2013 #9

Holy crap, they managed to piss off DiFi! nt geek tragedy Oct 2013 #10

Not a smart move! Rex Oct 2013 #17

It is not OK to spy on the rich and powerful. The rest of us, who cares! Mass Oct 2013 #11

but she LOVES spying on the other 99%.... mike_c Oct 2013 #12

This is BFEE all the way Hekate Oct 2013 #13

She's on the Intel Committee, is she saying they had no clue what the NSA was up to? sabrina 1 Oct 2013 #14

If not for ONE improv by a Congress critter, we would never know any of this! Rex Oct 2013 #18

Good point, 'the NSA was monitoring Congress instead of the other way around'. sabrina 1 Oct 2013 #19

I think Congress got caught sleeping at the wheel. Rex Oct 2013 #20

Grayson called them out Oilwellian Oct 2013 #24

My first thought fredamae Oct 2013 #15

Isn't that special. Spy on the peons Luminous Animal Oct 2013 #16

Diane Frankenstein is not a friend of the 99%. She is a Democrat but doesnt give a crap rhett o rick Oct 2013 #21

+1000! n/t markpkessinger Oct 2013 #25

+2000 woo me with science Oct 2013 #26

The Hen Guarding the Fox Hole. kentuck Oct 2013 #27

I don't buy it. Thom Hartman has been speaking about her writing a bill with an Orwellian title GoneFishin Oct 2013 #28