BETRAYAL!
BETRAYAL is the SIGNATURE of the neo-con "Democrats" - "Democratic" Senator DIANNE FEINSTEIN votes for MORE WARS, MORE SURVEILLANCE, MORE REACTIONARY right-wing Bush apointees, and MORE UNLIMITED, NO OVERSIGHT, BLANK-CHECK WAR SPENDING.
Dianne Feinstein, like Senator JOE LIEBERMAN having attained the HIGHEST LEVELS OF AMERICAN POWER and influence, is no longer in the least bit interested in democratic principles, policies, voters, or even citizens.
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Dianne Feinstein -- Bush's key ally in the Senate -- to support telecom amnesty
Glenn Greenwald
Saturday November 10, 2007
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/11/10/feinstein/index.html
Two months ago, Dianne Feinstein used her position on the Senate Intelligence Committee to enable passage of Bush's FISA amendments, granting the President vast new warrantless surveillance powers.
Last month, Feinstein used her position on the Senate Judiciary Committee to ensure confirmation of Bush's highly controversial judicial nominee Leslie Southwick, by being the only Committee Democrat to vote for the nomination (The Politico: "Sen. Dianne Feinstein had emerged as a linchpin in the controversial nomination").
This week, Feinstein used her position on the Senate Judiciary Committee to enable confirmation of Bush's Attorney General nominee by ensuring that the frightened Chuck Schumer didn't have to stand alone (Fox News: "Schumer's and Feinstein's support for Mukasey virtually guarantees that a majority of the committee will recommend his confirmation").
And now, Feinstein is using her position on the Senate Judiciary Committee and Senate Intelligence Committee -- simultaneously -- to single-handedly ensure fulfillment of Bush's telecom amnesty demands, as her hometown newspaper, The San Francisco Chronicle, reports:
Feinstein backs legal immunity for telecom firms in wiretap cases
Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Thursday that she favors legal immunity for telecommunications companies that allegedly shared millions of customers' telephone and e-mail messages and records with the government, a position that could lead to the dismissal of numerous lawsuits pending in San Francisco.
In a statement at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is considering legislation to extend the Bush administration's electronic surveillance program, Feinstein said the companies should not be "held hostage to costly litigation in what is essentially a complaint about administration activities" . . .
Feinstein, D-Calif., plays a pivotal role on the Judiciary Committee, which has a 10-9 Democratic majority. If she joins committee Republicans in voting next Thursday to protect telecommunications companies from lawsuits for their roles in the surveillance program, the proposal -- a top priority of President Bush -- will become part of legislation that reaches the Senate floor.
