Big Brother's Loyal Sister: How Dianne Feinstein Is Betraying Civil Liberties

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Big Brother's Loyal Sister: How Dianne Feinstein Is Betraying Civil Liberties
OpEdNews Op Eds 11/6/2013 at 11:18:02
By Norman Solomon

Ever since the first big revelations about the National Security Agency five months ago, Dianne Feinstein has been in overdrive to defend the surveillance state. As chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, she generates an abundance of fog, weasel words, anti-whistleblower slander and bogus notions of reform -- while methodically stabbing civil liberties in the back.

Feinstein's powerful service to Big Brother, reaching new heights in recent months, is just getting started. She's hard at work to muddy all the waters of public discourse she can -- striving to protect the NSA from real legislative remedies while serving as a key political enabler for President Obama's shameless abuse of the First, Fourth and Fifth Amendments.

Last Sunday, on CBS, when Feinstein told "Face the Nation" viewers that Edward Snowden has done "enormous disservice to our country," it was one of her more restrained smears. In June, when Snowden first went public as a whistleblower, Feinstein quickly declared that he had committed "an act of treason." Since then, she has refused to tone down the claim. "I stand by it," she told The Hill on Oct. 29.

Days ago, taking it from the top of the NSA's main talking points, Feinstein led off a San Francisco Chronicle op-ed piece with 9/11 fear-mongering. "The Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the United States was highly organized and sophisticated and designed to strike at the heart of the American economy and government," she wrote, and quickly added: "We know that terrorists remain determined to kill Americans and our allies."

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1. She needs to be voted out....

has always been far to the right, a corporate dem all the way.