Yes, Feinstein's a hypocrite, BUT . . .

[sibelian]

4. Well, she can be a unjustly maligned hypocrite, I suppose...

... but the other observation to be made is that if her oversight committee can't protect itself from the thing it's meant to be investigating then that's the last moral justification for allowing this organisation their power in the US as the CIA is clearly either:

1. actually kind of within the necessary margins of what spying organisations ordinarily do all over the world and it's better for is not to know what they do AND this particular iteration of 3 letters is too incompetent to cover itself up and therefore not fit for "purpose"

OR

2. Way out to hell and beyond past their morally justifiable remit and out of fucking control

Either way, they suck.

I favour postion 2, btw.