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December 10, 2014 — Paul Mirengoff
The Obama administration has instituted special security measures to protect U.S. facilities around the world in the event of attacks prompted by the release of Dianne Feinstein’s “torture” report. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said that “there are some indications. . .that the release of the report could lead to a greater risk that is posed to U.S. facilities and individuals all around the world.” John Kerry was concerned enough
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December 9, 2014 — Paul Mirengoff
The big news today will be the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the CIA’s interrogation policy during the Bush years, which has finally been made public. The mainstream media will see to it that the story dominates the headlines. It already dominates the Washington Post’s main page. I expect we’ll have lots to say about the report, whose contents have been leaked over the past months. For now, I’ll link
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November 16, 2014 — Paul Mirengoff
We have written about the Senate Intelligence Committee’s forthcoming “Feinstein Report,” an attack on the Bush-era CIA’s enhanced interrogation techniques. By all accounts, the report will conclude that the CIA regularly tortured terrorism suspects, lied to Congress about it, and gained no valuable information as a result. I view the report as not only a political document — the latest salvo in the war between Democrats on the Senate Intelligence
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November 3, 2013 — Paul Mirengoff
Rep. Mike Rogers’ questioning of Kathleen Sebelius was a highlight of her appearance before the House Ways and Means Committee last Wednesday. Rogers used his questions to show that codes on the Obamacare website are constantly being “swapped,” and that as a result, the security of the system can’t properly be tested and the personnel information supplied by those who use it isn’t secure. Rogers is Chairman of the House
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March 24, 2013 — Paul Mirengoff
When Ted Cruz raised with Dianne Feinstein the question of the constitutionality of legislation she was proposing, the Senator from California reacted testily, stating that she is not a sixth-grader. I would have thought that, if anything, Cruz’s attempt to engage her in a discussion about the Constitution showed respect for Sen. Feinstein. Too often, Feinstein (a non-lawyer) has marginalized herself as a Judiciary Committee member by opting to play
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March 14, 2013 — Paul Mirengoff
As a pensioner, when I’m not blogging, I spend much of my time reading and watching sports on television. But nothing I do these days is more amusing than watching Ted Cruz annoy the legacy Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee and cause some of them to betray their foolishness. The latest victims were Dianne Feinstein and Chairman Patrick Leahy. Feinstein has proposed a ban on 157 different models of
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January 24, 2013 — John Hinderaker
Today Senator Dianne Feinstein unveiled her long-promised legislation to ban “assault weapons.” Since there is no such thing as an assault weapon, we will have to read the text of the law to see what it actually does. So far, I haven’t seen the text anywhere, but Feinstein’s web site has a fairly detailed description of the bill, including a list of the 157 weapons that are specifically banned. News
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February 16, 2009 — Paul Mirengoff
Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, recently stated that U.S. Predator hunter/killer drones “are flown out of a Pakistani base.” The launch location is supposed to be a secret. To be sure, the Washington Post had already reported Predators operating out of bases in Pakistan. However, as noted by the Washington Times editorial page, a newspaper report is not the same thing as a statement by
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July 1, 2007 — Scott Johnson
Today’s San Diego Union-Tribune reports on the results of its investigation of the allegations that Dianne Feinstein used her position on a Senate subcommittee to benefit contractors in which her husband had a financial interest. Matthew Hoy comments in “Trusting Feinstein.” The verdict: A Copley News Service review found no evidence that Feinstein had intervened in any clearly meaningful way on behalf of the two companies. But it also found
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June 14, 2007 — Paul Mirengoff
For the past 18 months Hans von Spakovsky has served as a recess appointee on the Federal Election Commission. According to John Fund, his record there has been relatively free from controversy. Yesterday, however, von Spakovsky faced the wrath of Dianne Feinstein and other Senate Democrats during hearings on his nomination for a regular appointment to the FEC. The Democratic ire stems from von Spakovsky’s time at the Bush Justice
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April 3, 2007 — Paul Mirengoff
I’ve written often about the ethically challenged House Democrats. Today, on the AOL blog, I take a look at the ethics issues that have arisen concerning Senate Democrat Diane Feinstein. I note that these issues were raised largely by liberal organizations and media outlets, who would like to see an investigation by an independent watchdog. Feinstein, however, has opposed the effort of Barack Obama to create such a position within
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November 23, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
The victory of Nathan Hochman over Menendez groupie George Gascon drew considerable coverage, and rightly so. The Chesa Boudin clone had to go, and so did LA city councilman Kevin de Leon. In 2022, he was heard on tape comparing the black adopted son of fellow council member to “a Louis Vuitton bag.” De Leon survived a recall attempt but on November 5 lost to newcomer Ysabel Jurado. De Leon
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November 4, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
I am not going to talk about the vote on that. Because honestly it’s the Sunday before the election and I don’t intend to create an endorsement one way or another around it. That was Kamala Harris on Sunday, responding to a question about California ballot Proposition 36, a measure to reform the 2014 Proposition 47, which transformed theft of merchandise worth less than $950 from a felony to a
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September 22, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
“We’re heading into World War III territory, and because of the power of weapons, nuclear weapons in particular, but other weapons also,” said Donald Trump earlier this month, and this was going to happen “with these clowns that you have in there now.” For Trump, that is on the kind side, and the timing could use some clarification. We’ve been heading into WWIII territory ever since the end of WWII.
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September 12, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
The controversy over Donald Trump’s debate with ABC News has somehow obscured the anniversary of 9/11. Twenty-three years down the road, there’s a few things people should remember. With 3000 dead, countless numbers injured, and billions in damages, it was the worst attack on the United States since Pearl Harbor in 1941. The Central Intelligence Agency, specifically tasked to prevent such an attack, utterly failed to stop it. In his
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August 24, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
Joe Biden is “the best candidate Democrats have” and would win reelection, despite a “crazy Congress” and an opponent “crazier than Dewey.” That was former San Francisco mayor and California Assembly speaker Willie Brown back in March, before the Democrats dumped Joe “sharp as a tack” Biden for coup clucker Kamala Harris. She owes her start in politics to poontronage from Brown, who had other ladies on the line. In
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August 20, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
John links to a piece in which Tim Walz says Communism means “everyone is the same and everyone shares. . . The doctor and the construction worker make the same. The Chinese government and the place they work for provide housing and 14 kg or about 30 pounds of rice per month. They get food and housing,” and so on. Walz dished up this classic PRC propaganda after the Tiananmen
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