Feinstein in line to chair Senate Intel Committee

[dailykoff]

Source: AP

(11-07) 14:23 PST Washington, CA (AP) --

California Sen. Dianne Feinstein is in line to become the first female chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

The opening was created Friday amid a chairmanship shuffle sparked by the announcement that Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia was stepping down as head of the Senate Appropriations Committee.

A number of gavels will change hands as a result, sending the current Intelligence Committee chairman, Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., to the Commerce Committee, and opening up the powerful Intelligence Committee post for Feinstein, according to a former Hill aide who spoke on condition of anonymity because the deliberations were ongoing.

Feinstein, who currently chairs the low-profile Senate Rules Committee, has served on the Intelligence Committee for eight years and played a key role in crafting some important legislation including the creation of the post of director of national intelligence following the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/11/07/state/n121923S92.DTL

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Fox meet chickenhouse :puke: sorry if somebody already posted this.

[Muttocracy]

1. hmmm, was wondering what all the cascading changes would be..

here's senate committee lists:
http://senate.gov/pagelayout/committees/d_three_sections_with_teasers/committees_home.htm

[pscot]

2. Gawd help us

She needs to be primaried.

[Muttocracy]

3. wait, if JoeLie is kicked off of HS, who takes his place?

http://hsgac.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?Fuseaction=About.Membership

Levin and Akaka are next, but Levin chairs Armed Services

http://armed-services.senate.gov/members.htm

with Kenney, Byrd and Lieberman after Levin on that list - leaving Akaka.

So it seems like Levin and Akaka will split those 2 committees

With Inouye taking over for Byrd, it's a Hawaiian power grab!

[BunkerHill24]

4. This is why Harry has to go...n/t

[Muttocracy]

6. it's not Reid's choice, it's seniority in the majority party, isn't it?

[BunkerHill24]

8. No, its not about seniority, its about loyalty and honesty in government

Ask Mrs/Sen. Feinstein how her husband benefited from the Iraq war.....

[Muttocracy]

9. I mean for committee chairmanships - by seniority on each committee - it's Byrd

stepping down that is having cascading effects.

[BunkerHill24]

26. You don't know what you are talking about,......

[FreakinDJ]

22. Not to mention Senate Intel committe investigated 911

and found absolutely "No wrong doing" on the part of the Administration, and FBI

In fact I sent a letter to Feinstein telling her the facts needed to be looked into and she sent me back a "nasty gramm" saying they conducted the most thorogh investigation in the history of the United States

[BunkerHill24]

25. there is your 'fine print" ....and I thank you questioning her integrity

I am not so sure if Harry would question her either....she is not feathered in....she is sitting in the Senate collecting taxpayers money whilst her husband profits from Halliburton...//

[dailykoff]

28. That's exactly what worries me.

If she sat on this committee and rubber stamped Bush-Cheney crimes for eight years she has no business staying on it let alone heading it. She will be a roadblock to any hope of Congressional investigation into a host of hugely serious neocon crimes.

[kestrel91316]

5. Isn't that woman old enough to retire YET????

And I ask that as one of her hapless constituents........

[Muttocracy]

7. Wait, who takes over Rules then? Schumer?

http://rules.senate.gov/members/

She's ahead of Byrd, Inouye, Dodd, Schumer

[Career Prole]

10. Rats...I "saw" Feinstein but I "read" Feingold and thought...

"Ooh...that's a good'n!" then reality crashed back in...

[KoKo]

11. Would seem to be a huge "Conflict of Interest" for Feinstein.

Google Feinstein + Husband...and see what he does for a living. :eyes: Foxes and Henhouses..I'd say about that one.

[ksimons]

12. The State of Lieberman...

nuff said on THAT

[Metta]

13. How is that possible? Kerry's next, then Feingold.

How reliable is this source?

[Muttocracy]

29. this is the committee membership list

http://intelligence.senate.gov/memberscurrent.html

[NYC_SKP]

14. She dissed Obama, she is dead to me.

She was one of the superdelegates who pledged to Hillary before the first primary.

Totally unnecessary and unfair, and not at all a representative or democratic thing to do, IMO.

I didn't like her when she suddenly became mayor after the tragic murder of Moscone, and I've not warmed up to her at all since then.

[orleans]

20. dead to you? well, wake her up in your mind because she might

really start having an effect on us/this country and we need to be on top of this.

(i can't stand her either)

[dixiegrrrrl]

30. and was privy to the NSA spy stuff, never lifted a finger to stop it

[bjobotts]

15. Her husband is a weapons contractor who made a fortune from Iraq war

[bjobotts]

16. With her on Intel com. he should get ALL the defense contracts now

[bjobotts]

17. Haven't we had enough of government for personal gain from our leaders.

[madrchsod]

18. great..so much for change we can believe in..

[4lbs]

19. You can't fault Obama for this. It's the way the Senate Committees work. The POTUS has no

power here, unless he were to say, appoint her to a cabinet post in his Administration, no longer making her a Senator.

[Hardrada]

21. Secretary of Hand Dryers in the Congress Restrooms

[Ian David]

23. Not just no, but FUCK NO! n/t

[lunatica]

24. Crap! She voted for the Patriot Act because she 'knows things we don't'

she actually said that if she had voted what her constituents wanted she would have voted against it, but then she said cryptically that 'she knows things she couldn't divulge' inferring it was all top secret.

Then years later she said she was duped.

She's a pile of steaming crap.

[fascisthunter]

27. Once Again... Here Come the Vultures

Well America... you may get another anti-populist government once again if this trend pans out where DLCers are once again, taking power in high positions of government.