Dianne Feinstein is a thoroughgoing disappointment.

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At least in this case.
I'm just finishing up listening to and watching the border patrol agent hearing.
The only thing she said of solid value was that, maybe, the minimum sentencing thing was a question. Her opinions other than than were pure, evil rabid republican. I was astonished and disgusted.

It is she and a bunch of republicans who are doing their damnedest to smear the U S Attorney. He made a very clear explanation of the case and these dimwits running the hearing hear only what they want to hear. Not another single democrat on the hearing panel. Travesty.

There is no question.
The two agents were separated-one down in the fifteen foot deep ditch and the other was in possession of the suspect.
The one in charge decided to take a little "this'll teach you to make us work so hard to catch you" swing at the suspect's head with the butt of his shotgun.
The suspect ducked and the agent lost his balance and took a header right into that nasty ol' fifteen foot deep ditch.

The suspect, suddenly finding himself unguarded-both agents plus a third were in the ditch-took to his heels, headed straight for Mexico!
Campion(sp), the agent who landed on his face in the ditch, emerged, enraged, and threw down on the unarmed, fleeing suspect with his forty caliber, emptied his clip, reloaded and continued shooting to kill-fourteen times!

His partner, on emerging from the ditch, drew his own forty and shot the fleeing suspect in the back. They knew they'd hit him because they saw him stagger and start limping.

They shot to kill a fleeing, unarmed suspect who, at that time, had not been proven to have done anything wrong, other than running from them-a rather natural reaction to a hell of a lot of people here and around the world.

They did everything they could to cover up the bad shoot, even recruiting other agents to help them, doing a good enough job to keep it covered for a month.

I am obviously not siding with this interrogation panel, retrying the case ala Bill Frist, and I find, on learning the real non-rush limbaughed facts, that everybody did exactly as they should have, except, of course, the agents. If these fools really want to start a friggin war on our southern border, they are going in the right direction-allowing a police agent to become judge, jury and executioner.

They want to make the same stupid mistake the neo-cons made, escalating the contest from a law enforcement and justice matter to another war, with police personnel becoming soldiers, whose training is to shoot to kill in a war, not deal with humans.

[EFerrari]

1. Feinstein is no friend of progressives.

She becomes more right wing and sold out every year. I wish I had kept the letter she sent us in the run up to the war. It said, she had special knowledge about the threat Saddam posed (she had no such thing) and diplomacy had failed (also bs).

I apologize for Senator Feinstein.

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2. You needn't apologize.

She became who and what she is on her own hook. I knew that a lot of people had less than pleasant, even unkind things to say about her.
I kept trying to give her the benefit of the doubt, but her deterioration of the brain has become altogether too wingnutty for me.

[anitar1]

7. I believe her husband is on the receiving end

of a lot of BushCo money. I remember reading about his company months ago. It is not in her interests to support progressives. she is totally tainted.

[Bluebear]

3. DiFi on gay rights: "Too much, too fast, too soon."

'Joey Cain, president of the committee said Feinstein was nominated for the (Pink Brick) prize for telling reporters the morning after Bush's re-election that progress on the gay marriage front "has been too much, too fast, too soon."'

http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/04/040805sfBrick.htm

[EFerrari]

4. Add bigotry to war profiteering.

I wish someone would challenge her soldout @ss.

[Disturbed]

5. Feinstein is one of the worst Senators CA ever sent to DC.

C. Sheehan should run against her, not Pelosi.

[EFerrari]

8. Feinstein is very powerful. We can't even get someone

to challenge her. It's really frustrating.

[MagickMuffin]

6. I didn't see the hearing, but read an article and started a thread about it

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1373573&mesg_id=1373573

In the article it mentioned Cornyn asked DiFi to hold the hearing. She is just one more of the dyed in the wool DINOS.
She should really try to understand how the War on Drugs has ruined sooooo many families.

END THE DRUG WAR NOW