Saturday, August 17, 2013

Two Leading Female Democrats Respond to The Post Story

(The Post story.)
[Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne] Feinstein [...] denied an aspect of the Post's reporting that claimed she was unaware of a 2012 NSA "compliance" report. Feinstein said that she received it in a different format.

But Feinstein also suggested that her committee does not have full visibility into the NSA's operations.

  UK Guardian
I’m not sure she should be admitting either of those things.  (What format?  Notes on a cocktail napkin?  Email summary?)
The Democratic leader of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, a former senior member of the House intelligence committee, criticized the NSA on Friday, saying reports that it had overstepped its boundaries "extremely disturbing."

[...]

Pelosi was one of very few legislators briefed about the expansions of NSA surveillance activities after 9/11. She became a vocal critic of them when they were partially exposed under the Bush administration, yet once Barack Obama took office, her criticism ceased. She and the rest of the Democratic leadership worked hard last month to quash a legislative effort to end the bulk collection of Americans' phone records.
Ladies. The female half of the human race is being downgraded by your presence. Turn in your bona fides.

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