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Harvey Milk-era diva, former San Francisco Mayor, and Presidio Terrace resident Sen. Dianne Feinstein will become chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, making her the first dame to the first dame to chair the committee in its 32-year history. In a statement released, DiFi said that her goals will be "working with the Obama administration to end the practice of coercive interrogations and creating a uniform standard for interrogations throughout the U.S. government, granting the Red Cross access to detainees and closing the Guantánamo Bay detention facility within one year." (Huh?) This also clears up any rumors that she would run for governor of California, which allows Mayor Gavin Newsom to focus most of his attention on making the move to Sacramento.
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Great. Did she not support protecting the telecoms' for their involvement in domestic spying? Is this really a position we want her in?
I agree that Guantanamo (prison) must be closed that that torture must end. However, the job of the Senate Intelligence Committee chairperson should be to provide legislative oversight and to ensure that US intelligence assets are used in such a way that maxmizes the safety of the American people against foreign threats. Of course, the two goals are not mutually exclusive, but I hope that DiFi will keep her eye on the ball.
Also, between "like it or not", the sex scandal, and the easy targeting of "San Francisco Values", I just don't see how Gavin can run a successful gubernatorial campagin.
@yatdave: Yes, which puts her right in keeping with Obama, who is in a far more powerful position.
Gawd, she's old.
Generic, you should only pray that you get to be that age and still as active as she is. Good luck with that.
Oh no, absolutely.
By 75, I'll be catching up on all my "Murder, She Wrote" episodes.
'Course, being a bajillionaire probably helps with the geriatric thing.
End coercive interrogations? Wouldn't non-coercive interrogations be an oxy-moron? What is that, asking "tell me where the bomb is, pretty please??
I fear for this county.
I fear for this county.
You said a mouthful.
I hope Feinstein takes this opportunity to actually do something positive and doesn't follow the Nancy "Spineless" Pelosi example...