Diane Feinstein (D-CA): Of Course Some Of The National Security Leaks Are Coming From The White House

I think everyone can agree this is treason. Of course, some will think it's treason against the US and others will think Feinsteinis the traitor for throwing the Obama administration under the bus. Tomato/Tomahto I guess.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said that although she is sure the president is not disclosing secret information to the public, she wasn’t as sure about other White House staff.
“I think the White House has to understand that some of this is coming from their ranks,” she said at a World Affairs Council forum, according to AP. But on Obama, she said, “I don’t believe for a moment that he goes out and talks about it.”

Not only is Feinstein a senior Senate Democrat she's also the Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Mitt Romney, in a burst of bi-partisanship, is set to pounce on this issue today in a speech to the VFW.

"Whoever provided classified information to the media, seeking political advantage for the administration, must be exposed, dismissed, and punished. The time for stonewalling is over," Romney will say, according to advanced excerpts released by his campaign.
...
"It is not enough to say the matter is being looked into, and leave it at that," Romney will say. "When the issue is the political use of highly sensitive national security information, it is unacceptable to say, 'We'll report our findings after Election Day.'"
To help back up his argument, Romney quotes Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, who said at an event Monday the leaks were coming from within the White House.

AEI compiled a list of the top 5 security leaks in the last year alone. Some people need to go to jail.

Of course the problem is...none of this leaking may be illegal. Clasification and declasification are purely executive functions. If the President, or someone he designates, says, "this is no longer classified" it's not illegal to release it. Of course there will be and should political hell to pay for that.

Posted by: DrewM. at 11:03 AM

Comments

1 My money's on Joey B.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 24, 2012 11:06 AM (UOM48)

2
Do you hear that beeping noise? It sounds like a bus backing....oh shit.

Posted by: Tom Donilon at July 24, 2012 11:07 AM (TR60b)

3 How silly, those aren't serious leaks. Why, I couldn't show my face at Whole Foods because of MY leak.

Posted by: Valerie Plame at July 24, 2012 11:07 AM (6T8Ay)

4 "Some people need to go to jail."

And if Obama is ultimately the leaker? Isn't the president the final arbiter of what is or is not a secret? I don't think there is any law we could charge him with breaking (assuming he was impeached and removed from office).

Posted by: NotCoach at July 24, 2012 11:07 AM (rsudF)

5 Some people need to go to jail.

Posted by: DrewM. at 11:03 AM

Yeah, let's not hold our breaths waiting for that to happen.

Posted by: eman at July 24, 2012 11:08 AM (bbW7j)

6 I was misquoted. I said that I leak like the White House. I'll be the spokesperson for Depends after this term.

Posted by: Senator Diane Feinstein at July 24, 2012 11:08 AM (msPO3)

7 Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said that although she is sure the
president is not disclosing secret information to the public, she wasn’t
as sure about other White House staff.

Proof positive that it is Barry

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 24, 2012 11:09 AM (1Jaio)

8 I bet the leaker is not some low level flunky, but rather the high powered tactical retard Valerie Jarrett. Although it would be more interesting if it turned out to be Moochelle - leaking some of Obama's pillow talk.

Posted by: wooga at July 24, 2012 11:10 AM (IhzyJ)

9 Describing the process for determining how an individual gets put on the White House "vaporize by UAV" list and who approves it is not treason. It's extraordinary that an American citizen who is not a uniformed combatant on a battlefield can be smoked in the first place. Only an extraordinarily rigorous process could overcome the Constitution's requirements.

I don't necessarily have a problem with this, but the process needs to be transparent, otherwise it's ripe for abuse, especially by the SCOAMF (and his loose-lipped minions).

Posted by: Arms Merchant at July 24, 2012 11:11 AM (+XVQe)

10 Jail? Don't be silly. Jail is just for the little people.

Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at July 24, 2012 11:11 AM (O7Q1u)

11 Not only is Feinstein a senior Senate Democrat she's also the Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Democrats, Senate, ...Intelligence? I feel safer already.

Posted by: t-bird at July 24, 2012 11:12 AM (FcR7P)

12 But if he doesn't declassify first, but he or someone under his direction talks anyway, is that illegal?

Posted by: Watcher at July 24, 2012 11:12 AM (AL55p)

13 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable tyrant.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at July 24, 2012 11:12 AM (8y9MW)

14 It's not a crime if I do it.

Posted by: Barakhenaten I at July 24, 2012 11:13 AM (k49gO)

15 SCOAMF says all the other countries in the world love and respect us now, even though we're getting their intel operatives killed because someone can't keep their big fucking mouth shut

Posted by: kbdabear at July 24, 2012 11:13 AM (Y7XKa)

16 Although it would be more interesting if it turned out to be Moochelle - leaking some of Obama's pillow talk.

Given Obama actually said that Reggie woke him up in the morning and tucked him in at night, I really doubt Moochelle was getting pillow talk from him. Maybe ValJar?

Posted by: Ian S. at July 24, 2012 11:14 AM (tqwMN)

17 The leaker has already been fingered by several people as Tom Donilon, the National Security Advisor.

This guy is a political hack with zero experience in security affairs who was brought in after General Jones left. Obviously the JEF didn't like getting sound advice, and wanted a yes-man.

Posted by: Arms Merchant at July 24, 2012 11:15 AM (+XVQe)

18 Frankly If I were a Lib I'd be really pissed at Feinstein. I think it was a preemptive disclosure to limit the damage and to prevent an October surprise that will hurt the Dems more than getting in front of it now. Still I understand how the short sided Libs will be calling her a traitor.

Posted by: polynikes at July 24, 2012 11:15 AM (U7Ivf)

19 If it's being declassified, let them stand up and take the heat for that. We're talking major national security issues here.

Posted by: nickless at July 24, 2012 11:15 AM (MMC8r)

20 wow - way off topic. Clicked The View on. Whoopi Goldberg looks really awful. More awful than usual. Jobba the Hut without the sense of style or save gurls.

Posted by: Thunderb at July 24, 2012 11:15 AM (Dnbau)

21 Feinstein must be pretty pissed off to call the WH out like that. But as we all know, no one will be going to jail over this because the JEF will invoke executive privilege or just ignore subpeonas.

It's the way he and his shit crew rolls.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 24, 2012 11:16 AM (ccXZP)

22 Although it would be more interesting if it turned out to be Moochelle - leaking some of Obama's pillow talk.

Posted by: wooga at July 24, 2012 11:10 AM (IhzyJ)

Not again Michelle! It hurts so much!

Posted by: Barack "the catcher" Obambi at July 24, 2012 11:16 AM (RD7QR)

23 Bolshevics don't go to jail.

Until the revolution comes Democrats are untouchable.

Posted by: eman at July 24, 2012 11:16 AM (bbW7j)

24 How many moles did Ames expose again?

Posted by: Clownf*cker at July 24, 2012 11:16 AM (5npD/)

25 Although it would be more interesting if it turned out to be Moochelle - leaking some of Obama's pillow talk.
Posted by: wooga at July 24, 2012 11:10 AM (IhzyJ)

This assumes two things:

1) That Michelle and Barack share a bed (*shudder*); and/or
2) That Obama has a fuck-all clue about what the hell is happening in the White House that doesn't involve a checkbox on a memo pad. Or that he even bothers to read the options on the memo pad before checking off a box..

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter at July 24, 2012 11:17 AM (4df7R)

26
Moochelle - leaking some of Obama's pillow talk.

Michele isn't allowedanywhere near the Stabbin Cabin.
Her hair emits female sex waves and an unpleasant odor.

Posted by: Barakhenaten I at July 24, 2012 11:18 AM (k49gO)

27 Can one of the cob-loggers give Gabe's op-Ed its own post? He's too modest and buried it in the headlines thread.

Posted by: AmishDude at July 24, 2012 11:19 AM (J5tI6)

28 It ain't Biden. More likely one of those national security cunts, Donilan or Brennan.

What I want to hear, but surely won't, is the word "treason" shouted out by Romney and his campaign team. This one can really get out the base, and using the T word would amp up the excitement.

Posted by: TheLittlShiningMan at July 24, 2012 11:19 AM (PH+2B)

29 Feinstein says “some” of the leaks are coming from the WH. Try ALL of them scrunt, and they were done on orders from Obama.

Posted by: Vic at July 24, 2012 11:21 AM (YdQQY)

30 Her hair emits female sex waves and an unpleasant odor

her hair or her wig?

Posted by: BlackOrchidPinesForDagny at July 24, 2012 11:22 AM (J6kXj)

31 I can't view the slideshow of the Top 5 Leaks from the link in the post. Someone care to list them? I can guess what at least some of them are...

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter at July 24, 2012 11:22 AM (4df7R)

32 What I want to hear, but surely won't, is the word "treason" shouted out by Romney and his campaign team

But it turns off the independents, and the base is already pretty riled up.

No one wants to believe their executive branch is committing acts of treason (or, with our allies' info- acts of war against allied foreign powers) without some pretty convincing evidence. He'd have to be prepared to make this a National Security election, and that's one he's actually less likely to win than an Economics election.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at July 24, 2012 11:22 AM (8y9MW)

33 Obama better leak more shit or claim he stopped a massive terror plot because when the GDP data comes Friday he'll need a distraction.

Posted by: soothsayer at July 24, 2012 11:22 AM (73vB9)

34 I think if you're gonna be on an 'intelligence committee', you should have some intelligence

Posted by: Jones in CO at July 24, 2012 11:23 AM (8sCoq)

35
One "attack" that Romney and the Repubs have not used... which suprises me... is a basic assertion that "Leadership Gets Results"!

Leaks? We'll investigate.... for months...
Fast and Furious? Its an ongoing investigation, now more than a year...
Jobs? Its hard, and we need more time....

You attack the COMPETENCE of the Administration....

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 24, 2012 11:24 AM (lZBBB)

36 And more WTF from our intellectual superiors...

GHAWI: I immediately flipped into the mode that I've been trained for and remained calm and try to obtain more information and see what I could do for my mother and check on the status of my sister.

DYSON: Well, how are your mother and sister, by the way?

What a fucking idiot.

Posted by: RWC at July 24, 2012 11:25 AM (fWAjv)

37 Frankly If I were a Lib I'd be really pissed at Feinstein.

Much as I despise DiFi for a multitude of reasons, she's always approached the Senate Intelligence job with some small measure of apparent integrity. I have to give her that.

Posted by: @PurpAv at July 24, 2012 11:25 AM (p+r17)

38
Posted by: Jones in CO at July 24, 2012 11:23 AM (8sCoq)

It amused me no end... that the Acting Intelligence Officer on my ship during Desert Strom, was an Enlisted Guy...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 24, 2012 11:25 AM (lZBBB)

39 Feinstein has an office in building I work in. I have ridden up the elevator with her a couple of times. She always looks like she is a million miles away, worrying about shit we don't want to know about.

Posted by: Eddie Baby at July 24, 2012 11:27 AM (uZDiX)

40 And where are the drones

Send in the drones

Don't bother, they're here.

Posted by: Judy Collins, up Galt's Gultch at July 24, 2012 11:28 AM (aZcPb)

41 Of course there will be and should political hell to pay for that.

No there won't. First, you have a complicate media that will barely, if even, cover this story. Second, you have a significant portion of the elctorate that is only concerned about what the government can give them, deserving or not.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at July 24, 2012 11:29 AM (OWjjx)

42 [ ] Leak National Security Information

[ ] Get in another 27 holes this afternoon

[ ã] BOTH!

Posted by: Obama's Memo Pad at July 24, 2012 11:30 AM (kZVsz)

43
Feinstein has an office in building I work in. I have ridden up the elevator with her a couple of times. She always looks like she is a million miles away, worrying about shit we don't want to know about.

I was just trying to squeak one out.

Posted by: Diane Feinstein at July 24, 2012 11:31 AM (k49gO)

44 I was in court yesterday to have a case called for trial. Presiding judge is Feinstein's daughter Katherine. Sounds a lot like mom. Looks like her too, but younger (and rather attractive at that).

Posted by: SFGoth at July 24, 2012 11:32 AM (dZ756)

45 Michelle finds beauty, that delicate pinch of feminine spice with which she oftens flavours her interludes.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 24, 2012 11:33 AM (HOI3B)

46 Lets not get too carried away here. Once the Pentagon was ruled out as the source of the leak, it was pretty clear where the leaks were coming from. So, yea, Feinstein saying it comes from the White Hosue is akin to me saying water is wet.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at July 24, 2012 11:33 AM (OWjjx)

47 Brennan is the leak, he looks leaky. He is just another political hack in the regime. Although Harry Reed looks like a discharge from a free clinic sample.

Posted by: Clemenza at July 24, 2012 11:34 AM (+Xivf)

48 If Fi Sti is concearned, we should all be scared shitless.

O/T OSP will soon be leaving NC for the great state of Texas. Shopping for houses now outside of Houston in a place called the Woodlands.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Team Dagny at July 24, 2012 11:36 AM (9TTOe)

49 Diane is just trying to keep her husband out of jail

Posted by: phoenixgirl, team dagny at July 24, 2012 11:36 AM (iDLGO)

50 Making this public now doesn't really assist in stopping the leaks which have basically stopped since the investigation nor does it assist in obtaining more intelligence. The more I think about it I am convinced Feinstein did this as a preemptive act to control the narrative.

Posted by: polynikes at July 24, 2012 11:37 AM (EYfcP)

51
Posted by: Arms Merchant at July 24, 2012 11:11 AM (+XVQe)

Vaporizing Enemies in a foreign land with no Declearation of War??? Troubling... but defendable.

Vaporizing American Citizens without due process of Law? Without a Treason Trial? By Presidential Order? Borders on Despotism...

Vaporizing the 17 year old American Son, for the Sins of his Father? In a seperate drone strike?

I guess to me Tyranny is like Pornography... its hard to explain, but you know it when you see it...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 24, 2012 11:37 AM (lZBBB)

52 O/T OSP will soon be leaving NC for the great state of Texas. Shopping for houses now outside of Houston in a place called the Woodlands.
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Team Dagny at July 24, 2012 11:36 AM (9TTOe)

Very nice place, and you will be 30 mins from me...

Posted by: cajun carrot at July 24, 2012 11:38 AM (UZQM8)

53 It's one thing if the President declassifies the information first, and then allows his staff to make it public. I'm ok with the President being able to share previously classified information, or even engineer a leak. I don't see how the roles of CiC or Chief Executive could function without that prerogative.

It's quite different when someone else makes that decision, allegedly without the President's knowledge. Or when it's allowed to happen repeatedly without the President being required to take responsibility.

Posted by: Galos Gann at July 24, 2012 11:38 AM (T3KlW)

54 @49

I don't think pissing off someone was thin skinned as BHO is going to help with that. I don't see Romney squashing a criminal investigation of that magnitude for the sake of DiFi.

Posted by: Penfold at July 24, 2012 11:38 AM (1PeEC)

55 Romeo13, 11:25 -

"It amused me no end... that the Acting Intelligence Officer on my ship during Desert Strom, was an Enlisted Guy..."

We had an E4(P) as our S2 for awhile, in theater. And this kid was good.

Posted by: JPS at July 24, 2012 11:38 AM (tn14L)

56 Very nice place, and you will be 30 mins from me...
Posted by: cajun carrot at July 24, 2012 11:38 AM (UZQM

I suspect a possible meet up and BBQ in our future.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Team Dagny at July 24, 2012 11:38 AM (9TTOe)

57 MFM: National Security leaks are not important news. Mitt Romney's tax returns are things that we really need to focus on

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 24, 2012 11:38 AM (1Jaio)

58 "Woodlands"

Aww, you didn't want to move to Sheila Jackson-Lee's district?

Posted by: reason at July 24, 2012 11:39 AM (kZVsz)

59
Winner! #40
Sweet memories of A Little Night Music, back in the day when all we had to worry about was dying in Vietnam. Ahhh, good times

Posted by: BIG ROB at July 24, 2012 11:40 AM (MuXag)

60 #48 My mother lives in The Woodlands. Its not a bad place once you get used to Texas weather.

Posted by: polynikes at July 24, 2012 11:42 AM (EYfcP)

61 >>Some people need to go to jail.

Funny how so many times that thought has come to mind in the last 3 plus years, and yet the DOJ is busy nullifying States Rights and protecting the franchise of illegals, schizzos that vote for free smokes, and dead people.

Posted by: ontherocks at July 24, 2012 11:42 AM (aZ6ew)

62 I see Mitt's on CNBSC expressing how he's perfectly OK with gun bans this morning. It was nice while it lasted.

http://tinyurl.com/cezkh4c

Posted by: Lemmenkainen at July 24, 2012 11:42 AM (ZWvOb)

63 @ 49 yes , there should be an investigation of Mr Fuckstein and his relations with China, er our honorable Landlord

Posted by: Clemenza at July 24, 2012 11:43 AM (+Xivf)

64
Most transparent admin.....oh the hell with it.

I behind today, still thinking about the last thread. Of course Democrats love small business. The smaller the better, apparently.

Posted by: Meremortal at July 24, 2012 11:43 AM (Usk3+)

65 Woodlands has really turned around since they cleaned up that leaking nuclear storage facility.

Posted by: Ammo Dump at July 24, 2012 11:43 AM (YYyqq)

66 "Texas weather"

But on the flip-side - Tex-Mex!

Posted by: reason at July 24, 2012 11:43 AM (kZVsz)

67 O/T: Our British "friends" are selling "I leased my flat to a fat American family at the Olympics." Nice.

http://tinyurl.com/bwokesw

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 24, 2012 11:43 AM (UOM48)

68 67
O/T: Our British "friends" are selling "I leased my flat to a fat American family at the Olympics." Nice.

http://tinyurl.com/bwokesw

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 24, 2012 11:43 AM (UOM4

That's rich coming from the Brits since they're even fatter per capita than we are.

Posted by: joncelli, heartless Con and all around unpleasant guy at July 24, 2012 11:46 AM (RD7QR)

69 I hope it becomes obvious that it came from a WH flunky, after it was declassified by SCOAMF. Especially if it was obvious that the SOB did it just for the positive press.

Posted by: Roy at July 24, 2012 11:46 AM (VndSC)

70 67
O/T: Our British "friends" are selling "I leased my flat to a fat American family at the Olympics." Nice.

http://tinyurl.com/bwokesw

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 24, 2012 11:43 AM (UOM4

That's ok, we're selling 'WTF is wrong with all you limey's teeth?!' T-shirts.

Posted by: Fat American Family at July 24, 2012 11:47 AM (X6akg)

71 Can I question their fucking patriotism now?

Posted by: maddogg at July 24, 2012 11:47 AM (OlN4e)

72 @62 Just this morning some needed Hispanic voters voiced there concerns over 100 round magazines and the need to ban them from public ownership, on the other page just near Disney land in Anaheim Cullifornia , law enforcement was surrounded by 100 neighborhood Vaqueros throwing rocks, bottles and bricks at the officers investigating a shooting of one of their Homies, named Stomper. I rest my case.

Posted by: Clemenza at July 24, 2012 11:48 AM (+Xivf)

73 52 O/T OSP will soon be leaving NC for the great state of Texas. Shopping for houses now outside of Houston in a place called the Woodlands.
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Team Dagny at July 24, 2012 11:36 AM (9TTOe)

Poet,

If you don't find the Woodlands as a place you want to live in, there is a sub-division called Cumberland (which is on Cumberland Blvd in Porter TX) That is a very nice reclusive subdivision not very far from the Woodlands.

Posted by: cajun carrot at July 24, 2012 11:48 AM (UZQM8)

74 Michael Reagan was on Fox several weeks ago when the whole leaks story came out, and said he believes Biden is behind them. Joey B was a thorn in the side of the Reagan presidency and has a big (and stupid) mouth.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 24, 2012 11:48 AM (UOM48)

75 Yeah sure as long as we also see some legit arrests over Valarie Plame (and no, Libby doesn't count).

Posted by: palooka at July 24, 2012 11:49 AM (aNlIg)

76 "Shopping for houses now outside of Houston in a place called the Woodlands.
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet"

You'll like the Woodlands, very pretty. I'm out in Katy, west Houston.

Posted by: Hobbitopoly at July 24, 2012 11:50 AM (kjuBz)

77 nood gay post up

Posted by: soothsayer at July 24, 2012 11:50 AM (DMwFZ)

78 Biden is too stupid to leak that level of security,
Brennan , that mutt looks guilty and shifty.

Posted by: Clemenza at July 24, 2012 11:51 AM (+Xivf)

79
Donilon has plenty of foreign policy and national security experience, it's just that it's all bad. And despite what Feinstein thinks or says, there is no happy ending to this story.

But,but,but....Valerie Plame! Scooter Libby! Bush lied about the WMD's!!!!!
Richard Armitage walks around as a free man today, with nary a blot on his name. And those WMD's are going to show up in Syria sooner or later.

Sometimes...sometimes I really wish a metorite would strike Washington DC and leave nothing but a huge smoking hole in the ground. When Congress is in session, of course.

It would be too bad that the heirlooms of the Republic would be lost, but the gain would be that the wretched scum and villainy of that city would be wiped away. At least for a while.

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes...... at July 24, 2012 11:52 AM (RFeQD)

Posted by: Clemenza at July 24, 2012 11:52 AM (+Xivf)

81 Here we go, getting ready to go round and round again. Put us in a loop and letus churn and eat cycles of attention span. I guess the least effective thing to do, and therefore the most likely thing to happen, will be to have this communist administration "investigate" itself. Today's official color is : unimpressed.

Posted by: and irresolute at July 24, 2012 11:53 AM (Q492A)

82 And those WMD's are going to show up in Syria sooner or later.

^^^^This^^^^^

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 24, 2012 11:54 AM (UOM48)

83 Worst. New. Poat. Ever.

I'm staying here.

Posted by: reason at July 24, 2012 11:56 AM (kZVsz)

84 Request of the Cob-Loggers: Please don't put things in main posts, during the day, that I would have that much trouble explaining to my boss.

Count me as one of the ones staying in this thread.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at July 24, 2012 11:57 AM (8y9MW)

85 AoSHQ - totally explainable as work-relevant.

Hoff in the midst of some "animal husbandry" - significant tapdancing required.

Posted by: reason at July 24, 2012 11:59 AM (kZVsz)

86
Biden may be stupid (well, there is no maybe about it), but that doesn't keep him from being an instigator and trouble maker.

Believe me now and hear me later, most of these people are not that smart. It is just that Biden is particularly inarticulate and thick - tongued, and has been up there so long because the dunderheads in Delaware kept re-electing him.

And everytime I think some other state is full of dunderheads, I remember that Ohio elected and re-elected Howard Metzenbaum to the Senate for three terms. And the only reason he didn't run for a fourth term was that he thought he could palm the job off to his imbecileson-in-law, Joel Hyatt.

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes...... at July 24, 2012 12:00 PM (RFeQD)

87 I just may have to stop reading this site and the comments because I get even more depressed than ever as I read how this country is slowly circling the drain, facilitated by Obama and his communist minions. I will vote for the Romney, but I don't really expect much from him as he is a confirmed "let me reach across the aisles RINO". His primary attribute is that he is not Obama, so he cannot be worse for the country.

Posted by: Hrothgar at July 24, 2012 12:05 PM (rI5Q7)

88 Those shitty 100 round magazines probably saved lives at the theater shooting. According to reports it jammed fairly soon in the event.

Posted by: Vic at July 24, 2012 12:06 PM (YdQQY)

89
Much as I despise DiFi for a multitude of reasons, she's always approached the Senate Intelligence job with some small measure of apparent integrity. I have to give her that.

Same here. And compared to Boxer, she's a genius. Putting Boxer on the Senate Intelligence Committee would show the Dems reallyhave a sense of humor.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at July 24, 2012 12:08 PM (vrjLa)

90 Putting Boxer on the Senate Intelligence Committee would show the Dems reallyhave a sense of humor.

Or a complete lack of appreciation for irony.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at July 24, 2012 12:10 PM (8y9MW)

91
Donilon has plenty of foreign policy and national security experience, it's just that it's all bad.

Don't criticize him too much, or we'll get Jamie Gorelick in the job.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at July 24, 2012 12:12 PM (vrjLa)

92 Don't criticize him too much, or we'll get Jamie Gorelick in the job.

At least she's competent to make sure people don't learn things. Wasn't that what the "wall of separation" was all about?

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at July 24, 2012 12:13 PM (8y9MW)

93 Or they could have a Joint Intelligence Committee, with Boxer, Patty Murray, Hank Johnson, and Sheila Jackson Lee on it (other candidates?). You could see higher intellectual performance at the primate enclosure at the zoo.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at July 24, 2012 12:15 PM (vrjLa)

94
At least she's competent to make sure people don't learn things. Wasn't that what the "wall of separation" was all about?

Yeah, but the primary people who don't learn things are the ones who keep appointing her to responsible positions. After her star turn in the "wall of separation" and then Fannie Mae, all grown-ups in America flinch when they hear her considered for another position.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at July 24, 2012 12:19 PM (vrjLa)

95 all grown-ups in America flinch when they hear her considered for another position.

True. But better someone who's fault is that she doesn't disclose information she should, rather than someone who's fault is that he doesn't know when to keep his trap shut.

At least in this particular position.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at July 24, 2012 12:26 PM (8y9MW)

96 One side effect of the "investigation" into these leaks that is not being reported is that while ignoring the "big fish" the investigators are playing Hell with the "worker bees" in the defense/intel community as they valiantly search for a nonexistent leaker. The result being that the community's work is grinding to a halt as data calls are met and workers and middle management fixate on CYAs.

Not exactly what we need in the national security area right now.

Posted by: Nighthawk at July 24, 2012 12:36 PM (RSqz2)

97 LauraW went to the dark side! For the love of Bacon, don't go to the new post!

/curls up in fetal position under desk

Posted by: Brother Cavil presents at July 24, 2012 12:37 PM (GBXon)

98 Anyone hiding from LauraW's evil new post can ~~boost my hit count~~ head over to my place.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at July 24, 2012 12:39 PM (8y9MW)

99 ...oh thank God, new new post with 100% less Hassle!

Posted by: Brother Cavil presents at July 24, 2012 12:40 PM (GBXon)

100 Feinstein and the Administration had a falling out over the Senator getting robbed blind by that fraudulent-fraudulent Democrat fundraiser, and over Kamala Harris for CA Attorney General. Feinstein preferred someone other than a female Trotsky.

Posted by: motionview at July 24, 2012 01:06 PM (i+DU3)

101 Inveterate security leaker and first class blabber-mouth Feinstein should heed her own advice.

Posted by: 13times at July 24, 2012 01:31 PM (h6XiD)

102 We didn't need Sen. Sherlock Feinstein to figure this one out.

Posted by: mpfs at July 24, 2012 01:54 PM (iYbLN)

103 Yet if I divulge anything information about my job I can be fired, prosecuted and fined under violation of HIPAA laws.

Leak classified information about the United States? Piffle. You get a pass.

Fuckers.

Posted by: mpfs at July 24, 2012 01:57 PM (iYbLN)

104 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: steevy at July 24, 2012 08:28 PM (6o4Fb)

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