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Drown out Feinstein in 2010.
The CIA is not going to begin publishing all of its information even under President Barack. By nature, it's a secretive organization. And Panetta won't change much at the CIA either. How would you like to be the CIA director who comes in making huge changes and then there's an attack on the US? It's hard to argue with 7 years of success.
I used to like her, but she has covered for the Republicans so many times I've just had it with her.
George J. Tenet July 11, 1997–July 11, 2004
Porter J. Goss September 24, 2004–April 21, 2005
Maybe she has in mind someone like Dusty Foggo or David Addington?
He's not 'asking' that Leon Panetta be confirmed, he's 'demanding' it in a very forceful way.
She'll probably have to return any money she was paid by someone in the CIA who she already promised the job to. How embarrassing.
...or maybe monkeys fly out my butt
Are you kidding? Diane Feinstein is a socially liberal Republican who runs as a Democrat because she's from CA. She's married to a heavyweight defense contractor and has MANY conflicts of interest around this issue. She also, along with her partner in crime, Chuck Schumer, pushed through Mukasey, Alito, Roberts, torture, illegal wiretapping and every other abuse of the constitution under Bush. She makes Lieberman seem like a straight-shooter and she needs a major league primary challenger in 2012 to put her pathetic, dishonest career out of its misery once and for all.
Senator Feinstein is the same person who chose to confirm Mukasey as Attorney General even though he has stated that the president is above the law and that waterboarding is not torture. She has no credibility
Perhaps that is your disagreement with the gentleman's appt.
Look for Madame Feinstein to order that some heads should roll after this outrage. Or look for a DIFFERENT candidate be selected, one of HER choosing, in keeping with tradition! Otherwise, look for her Ladyship to be defended by that dashing cavalier, Lord Charles Schumer, who will draw his rapier and add his vote, making it "unanimous or else!'
(wink) Gotta love our Ruling Class, their temperamental hissy fits, their brutal dictates, and how weird they act when the Left Hand of Power dares neglect to follow The Plan as laid out by the Right (Upper) Hand! WOW, is she smoked! This stuff is not supposed to be reported to the public. Get it back in gear, nobles! The public might find itself distracted from "TV Reality" if y'all get lazy. And that would be BAD....
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I mean, seriously, are all you Rushpublicans as dumb as a pocketful of rocks?
I don't want her as my Gov either!
Collaborateur!
Intelligence "professionals" got us into these messes. We need someone who didn't think the Soviet soldiers were ten feet tall, that Iraqi soldiers were very tough and battle hardened, that Iraq didn't have WMDs, that we have precious little to fear from Iran, who thought that Afghanistan and Iraq were occupation quagmires waiting to occur.
DINO is scared to death - Panetta knows where the bones are buried.
Her and Rambo Harman are sweating bullets.
No more "business as usual", girls.
Dianne, time to retire!!
OR is she but the tip of the iceberg of MY party's extreme left that has long ago forgotten everything about real governance? I would remind her that we who have elected President Obama trust in his judgement and perception of need infinitely more than those who continue to carry about shop worn notions from the distant past. If Senator Feinstein wishes to rationally evaluate and support her reasons for opposing the choice of President Obama, then I suggest she come up with a better supporting arguement than her own pretense of ignorance.
Check the dictionary!!
That would be the very best news since for-f-ing-evah. It can't possibly be true.
I'd like a little of what you've been smoking.
the rest seem to have bent their very effective efforts toward getting rid of chalabi and goss and who knows who else?
Nice try Lanny, Maybe you prefer a "liberal" Like Zell Miller?
That can only mean that Lenny is a Republican.
Perhaps it's time to put the old nag out to pasture.
This war profiteer ought to be sent packing, NOW!
John Hay
Australia
www.tellingthoughts.com
What with the Burris problem and the Kennedy problem, and the Richardson problem and the Franken problem, this shiny new administration can't get a break--and they deserve one--as does the country.
Feinstein doesn't like it? I wonder why. Could she be worried about her own culpability in the whole sordid chapter in American history?
I have a message for Feinstein; just shut up.
It's a drag that we are stuck with her for awhile but we don't have to pay any attention to her. And Mukasey is her guy. Nuff said.
To the contrary, this is VERY auspicious! It means the "serious" people in the Beltway are dismayed, and that's a most excellent thing.
Could she have the pro Israel team she wants at CIA and not want it disrupted? I believe Israel has the right to peacefully exist...within it's original borders. Enough of supporting their expansionism under the guise of security...
Like many DINO's she will only be remembered for the damage she did to our country.
Don't know, but Feinstein's opposition propels me toward the Panetta camp. It's also a pick that signals a real break with the cheney business.
Feinstein should devote herself to acts of contrition, followed by massive expenditures focused on keeping her seat against a vigorous primary challenge.
I note these unhappy realities although I am solidly Democrat, and support womens' causes.
E. L. McClendon
Besides, Panetta has the only qualifications he needs . . . a former Clinton loyalist.
Now we're beginning to see how Obama had to sell his soul to buy Clinton's "suspension" of her Campaign . . .
can anyone trust the agency as it is operating now ?
someone who's not tied to the way things have been done there. Someone who will tell
the President what's going on and where the bodies are burried. ( including the bodies
from the World Trade Center demolitions.) New faces in the CIA........ Kennedy tried this as well
after the Bay of Pigs. My guess is that Leon won't be welcomed by many.
Don't the CIA answer to a civilian authority? Feinstein has not exercised oversight from the Senate. Someone has to take control of that place.
Bush has politicized everything in government and I doubt that the CIA is any different.
Sorry, Dianne, it's time to open up the CIA to others to see what's going on there. You had your chance for a few years to conduct some oversight and you did a lousy job.
But I do disagree that they'll continue the same policies that have damaged our nation's standing and increased the threat of harm of extremism by pushing people to extremes.
Obama will put a halt to torture and warrantless wiretapping which, BTW, are restrictions on freedom (and illegal and against our Constitution). Obama will restore freedoms damaged by Bush!
I hope conservatives can be less fearful in 2009.
If you think that Obama will make big changes to Bush policy at the CIA, and trumpet those changes, then how do you think Obama will respond if there's an attack after 7 years without one? Will he say, "we made big changes at the CIA and this latest attack is just something we must accept"? How will the American public like that? Bush has left a 7 year record without another attack. Any administration following that record has to produce an equally good record or it will be seen as having failed.
Get over it, you two supported the Bush Administration and their efforts to codify torture. As a nation we will never live it down, just like the Germans can't live down Hitler and Nazism. You two did nothing good for your country. You could have stood up and stood against techniques used in the Spanish Inquisitions, you did not. You two should keep your mouths shut, you had your chance and you blew it, and you took a nation down with you. I for one will not forgive you. You are complicit in Bush's greatest mistakes. Hopefully, you can live with yourselves, the problem is you probably can, but me, I can't. You let us down.
It got us.
-The biggest ter ror attack on our soil.
-An unjustified invasion of a sovereign nation, with no weapons of mass destruction.
-A failed assessment of post invasion Iraq, remember we will be greeted as liberators.
-North Korea with nuclear weapons.
-We did not capture or ki ll Bin Laden.
-And thanks to the tor tort uring CIA we have lost our standing around the world.
With that type of experience I will take a CIA director with good judgment who saw the ter rorist with post invasion Iraq and a CIA director that does not want to tor ture.
You people make me sick especially so called Obama supporters that want the same criminal and incompetent people who were in the CIA or enabled the massive failures of the CIA within the congress.
Go take a break and enjoy your old age.
Gosh, how I wish we Californian could kick her out of office NOW. She cares more about "power" and making more money for her and her husband's defense-related business.
Even if you assume that she may be correct in her assessment that a professional may be best suited for the job, she should give Obama the benefit of the doubt and express her displeasure privately and remind him that she expects the same courtesy in return. There is not any evidence to support that Panetta has ever done anything in violation of the US Constitution or International laws.
The fact that Pinetta is Catholic doesn't help.
Feinstein should under no conditions have a position in the Intellegence survice.
John Sullivan
I really don't give smelly air wether you were consulted or not. You are not the President and for that matter much of a Senator. My question to you is why could not a professional call to the President Elect to inform him of your concerns rather than this media PMS fit??? You my dear are human just like the rest of us. And you are also this countries paid employee. Behave like a big girl and quit throwing your toys. Re-election already looks like a rough road for you. You will be skipping off into the sunset with the govenator if I had my choice....
Potential 2010 Governor campaign [[her last anti-Democrat strategy]]: Feinstein is being reported as considering running for Governor of California when Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is term limited. Most of the state's top Democrats are eyeing the race, but Feinstein is such a well-known figure among California voters that her entry likely would push most other Democrats out of the race.[original research?] A private poll in July 2008 showed Feinstein far outpacing Jerry Brown, a former governor, 50 percent to 24 percent, with current Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi at 10 percent.[39]
Please get over yourself and get to work. Make something positive happen for a change. I am a life-long Democrat who is thoroughly sick of the Business-as-Usual attitude of the Hill's old Crones like you and Barney Frank. Please, either lead, follow, or get out of the way, you incompetent geriatric bag of stale air! You have a brilliant, hard-working, popular, young President-elect who coincidentally is a Democrat. None of those adjectives apply to you. Couldn't you at least identify with the agenda of your own Party, the will of the People, and the crises at hand in this country, and do the right thing? It is definitely NOT ABOUT YOU, Feinstein.
What she wants is someone whose beliefs match hers, or someone she might be able to control. Obama and Panetta are neither. And it certainly wouldn't hurt the CIA to have a little objective oversight after eight years of bullshit from the spin machine.
Panetta's a smart guy who doesn't owe many favors to anybody. Too bad for you, DiFi!
Grammatical note: The agency would not be "best-served" in any case, because the hyphen in that construction is superfluous. One could, however, speak of a "best-served agency". Please, everybody, leave the unnecessary punctuation out of your writing. (And while you're at it, maybe you could stop abusing "out" by adding it after whatever verb is being used. Otherwise, I will have to correct out your English assignment.)
Bottom line: Feinstein's personal jester is leaving the White House, and regardless of her assuming leadership of the Intelligence Committee, that influence hardly trumps that of the new boss. Suck eggs, baby!
Instead of trumpeting that there have been seven years without an attack, how about admitting that there was an attack not even a year into Bush's reign?
By all accounts, the people in his administration received ample warning from Clinton's national security advisor; there had been numerous intercepts of terrorist communications; Bush went on vacation at a critical time; he handed over control of the military to Cheney (that dickhead) in May of 2001; at the time of the attack, most of the fighter squadrons in the Northeast were conducting an exercise which bore an eerie resemblance to what was actually happening, and they were doing so hundreds of miles from Washington.
Either incompetence or collusion was involved, in my opinion. Obviously the intelligence services were doing their job, but Bush & Co. didn't give a plugged nickel for anything which might force them to get off their lazy asses or would diminish their fortunes. I think they were behind 9 - 11, and you may quote me on that.
At any rate, let's not pretend that the narcissistic, ignorant mentality which has been fostered in Washington for the last eight years has been keeping us safe. Just ask any resident of New Orleans.
However,
Illegals are robbing us, new Pres. Obama's policies & staff, abortion (I'm pro life), schools, closing of Guantanamo and releasing of terrorists, middle class with new government making us SLAVE labor with horrindous double debts. spending & borrowing being done by our Government in Ca & USA.
WE PUSHED FOR YOU...and believed in you... California government spending is way out of control. We see your struggle .... however, you seemed to fight more for us during your first term????
NOW WE FACE WHAT WE FEARED WOULD HAPPEN WITH OBAMA... GOVERNMENT CONTROL & LOSS OF FREEDOM for the middle class who pays slave taxes for illegals.
and... Ca is wanting a loan from the Government???
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***OUR TRILLIONS HAVE BEEN GIVEN OUT IRRESPONSIBLE TO BANKS AND ORGANIZITIONS WITHOUT A PLAN FOR RETURN OR INSPECTION ON THE INVESTMENTS??? WOULD YOU DO THIS WITH YOUR PERSONAL EARNINGS???
now you have another trillion you are rushing without thought to bury us in without giving us a chance to vote on any of it.....
HISTORY AND PRESENT DAY CHALLENGES....
MY SONS ( bothe of them)LOST JOBS WITH THE FIRE DEPT. BECAUSE THEY WERE WHITE AND NOT MAJORITY TWENTY YEARS AGO....
DO YOU WANT A WAR IN THE USA BECAUSE OF THE LOSS OF OUR RIGHTS??
IT'S IN THE WINGS OBAMA FANS... OBAMA IS NOT A GOD, STOP TREATING HIM LIKE ONE AND WAKE UP...
1. OIL reserve: WE'RE NOT HEARING ABOUT THE OIL DIGGING IN USA OR MAKING SURE WE HAVE THE COMPANIES HERE TO DO RESEARCH ON IT NOW SO WE ARE NOT SLAVES TO THE ARAB, RUSSIAN, ETC. OIL FIELDS...????
2. Guantanamo.... NO INTERIGATION... NO JAILS .... KISSY, KISSY, BROWN NOSERS IN OUR SENATE AND CONGRESS...
3. SAFETY..... Take away the fear of retribution and OUR ENEMIES WILL "CATCH US WITH OUR PANTS DOWN" AND AMERICA WILL BE NO MORE
4. ABORTION... ALL OVER THE WORLD PAID BY AMERICANS.... GOD WILL BLOW US OUT OF THE WATER FOR WHOLESALE MURDER OF BABIES....
5. THE MIDDLE CLASS HAS BEEN SLAVES TO "WET BACKS" and illegals for MANY, MANY YEARS. Our taxes have been the slavery for millions. The bible says "if you work not, you eat not". Instead we not only feed, house, hospitalize, school, prefer them to our own children, husbands and the woman does three jobs now to put food for her table. Or should we all go on welfare?
I was in Jr College doing fine... happy and goal oriented when MY FAMILY HAD TO MOVE TO SO. CAL BECAUSE OF CHEAP LABOR IN THE FIELDS IN SALINAS, CA. I HAD TO QUIT JR COLLEGE BECAUSE I HAD NO PLACE TO LIVE OR A WAY TO PAY FOR IT BECAUSE WET BACKS CAME IN AND THEY CAME IN AND WORKED FOR LITTLE. AFTER THEY DID THIS THEN THEY DEMANDED UNION PAY AND NOW PAID DOUBLE. WE ARE THE SLAVES FOR MEXICAN ILLEGALS STATE & COUNTY AID, HELP FOR SCHOOL AND EDUCATION, CAR REPAIR, HEALTH CARE FREE WHILE I WAIT FOR HMO REFERRALS THAT COME WITH LESS THAN REPUTABLE DRs who put me on a waiting list for an appointment. WE ARE TIRED OF BEING SLAVES TO THE WELFARE SYSTEM...
IF THE MOVIE STARS AND the "anything Obama says vote for it" SENATE and congress STOP SENDING THEIR MONEY TO OVERSEAS BANKERS AND INVESTMENTS AND START PAYING TAXES WE WOULD HAVE A DECENT EDUCATION SYSTEM, WALL STREET MAY SELL USA STOCK AND THE BANKS WOULD NOT BUY BANKS IN EUROPE WITH OUR MONEY.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH OBAMA contribute and supporters...GIVE YOUR OWN MONEY to your leaches who do not work and collect checks we pay for and MAY YOUR CABINET DO THE SAME.
ACT LIKE IT'S YOUR ACCOUNT YOU'RE BORROWING FROM AND YOUR HOME OR CITY YOU ARE SENDING THESE WAR CRIMINALS TO. LET HILLARY AND FANNIE MAE AND THOSE WHO TOOK BRIBES OR PAYMENTS INSTEAD OF WORKING FOR US IN THE USA.
BUSH... I, WE WANT YOU BACK.... WE ARE FEELING VERY UNSAFE WITH ALL THE THE CHANGES THAT ARE BEGINNING.
GOD IS THE ONLY GOD.... OBAMA IS NOT... HE'S ONLY A MAN MADE OF FLESH AND so are HIS "brown nosing staff" ... newly weds who vote for everything he wants. Help! Sos!! Where are the truth seekers and finders we voted in?
I am 73 yrs young... I put in 8-14 hours a day because my husband and I lost our home in the So. Cal. earth quake and had to start all over again rebuilding our savings even to buy a home.
I DON'T mind work... I enjoy sharing and motivating people and seeing them change and go forward. I do have Hispanics (friends and associates that are winners & team supportive) in my companies down line who have expressed they do not want illegals here either who did not do what they did to be legal citizens. They love America and they want to achieve the American dream. They say, "What you do not pay for or work for you do not appreciate".
WHAT DO WE DO AND DO IT QUICKLY TO SAVE OUR FREEDOM TO PREACH GODS WORD AS IT IS AND NOT MODIFY IT TO MEET HOMOSEXUAL SALVATION?
FREEDOM ... NOT TO PAY FOR ILLEGALS??
RIGHTS FOR THE BEST MAN OR WOMAN TO HAVE THE JOB.... NOT BECAUSE THEY ARE BLACK, MEXICAN OR ORIENTAL....
My grandchildren are suffering for their education because they have children who do not speak English.
We pay for lunches that I never got when I was growing up.
TAXES, TAXES, UP ON TAXES ON TAXES..
CALIF. IS GOING UP TO 10% SALES TAX... WE PAY TAXES, TAXES. TAXES... FOR WHAT??????
Now we here the CHANGES ALREADY to use the borrowed funds not for WHITE construction workers.... the verbalige to not choose quality but welfare people who may not do the job as well as the knowledgeable white experienced worker.
Hello??? What is going on here. YOU SPEND YOUR OWN MONEY not ours for less quality workers.
WE work hard for all of these things.... what will we do?? Whatever we need to preserve our freedom and rights.
I am a wife, Mom, Grandmom and now Great Grandmom.... I want to live in a free America with scruples, intelligent leaders who truly care about our country and freedom for all and may the best man or woman for the job be chosen for any position.
A concerned Californian and American who loves this country and wants to say I'm proud of our government.... of the people, by the people and for the people. Not their own pocket books first.
Sincerely,
Delores Ryder-Liboff, Woodland Hills, Ca
p.s. I just received the forwarded piece from one of my sons who among millions of others who see the changes that are frighteningly leading to complete government control.
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My son who sent the email is an Electrical Contractor sent me an email regarding his daughters Jr Hi and also stats regarding the lack of opportunity for white kids... hello... and what is being spent on illegals from across our borders with privileges who do not work or support our state and country via slave taxes.
PLEASE HOLD THE LINE on state spending, borrowing and this if you agree the email contents. Why can't we do a Sarah thing with our Oil Companies and return money to your Ca. people?????
We appreciate you and all you have and will do to help us regain our pride and freedom to build our dream.... not reward the ones who do not work and pay taxes.
Thanks, Delores Liboff
AND you NEED to impeach bush, cheney, rumsfeld etc. All the corrupt, lying, TORTURING and thieving cronies in the bush admin. This is a REMEDEY of the people. Not really your choice. It is your Duty. You cannot let them have stepped all over the bill of rights and constitution, robbing from middle america to give to the wealthy. LYING ABOUT SO MUCH WITH NO transparancy.. IMPEACH them. They are NOT ABOVE THE LAW. Deborah Heitter, R.N.
Mr.Panetta confirmation should be interesting given that he has worked closely with the UFO "Disclosure Project" and as far as I know is still of the mind that the Government should make public it's files on the issue as so many other countries have been doing recently.
My name is Joe Evans and I am the father of Tobin Evans.
This letter is in reference to the sub prim lending, predatory lending and illegal foreclosure of my sons home and property. Please review his dilemma and comment on his options . Toby has no savings, lost all of his equity and has been rejected by attorneys who don’t take contingent cases or who don’t want to take on the “big dogs”.
Briefly, in 1989 Toby purchased a home on three lots. In 2000 Ocwen failed to pay property taxes from Toby’s impound account. In 2004 Toby was notified the taxes were delinquent four years. In 2005 Toby refinanced to bring the taxes current and stop a tax lien sale. In the process of transferring the note the banks failed to credit several payments causing defaults. In the past three years there have been 12 banks and /or mortgage servicing companies and 16 title companies involved in the transfers of this property. Such as Ocwen, Advanta, Recon Trust, Greenich, Sierra National, Old Republic, Amresco, Citicorp, Aegis, Mers, Countrywide and Bank of New York. In August 2006, the property was wrongfully transferred to Siera National without notifying Toby of an account number. His August, September, and October payments were returned causing default and subsequent unlawful detainer court case. In June of 2007, another transfer to CWABS Bank of New York who claimed 100% ownership and began foreclosure proceedings.
September 10, 2007, Richard Andrews, an attorney, said he would represent Toby pro bono and he believed that the case had merit indicating possible charges. The allegations are: (but not limited to) 1. Predatory lending, 2. Violation of RESPA #6 and #10, 3. Breach of contract
4. Misuse of many state laws, 5. Giving false information to the court. Toby thought Mr. Andrews was in control, however, he failed to make court communications. On December 10, 2007 he said he had terminal cancer and could no longer represent Toby, leaving him without legal advice.
During that period of time there was also a National Disaster from October 22, to November 1, 2007. Due to the Grass Valley Fire in San Bernardino, California, Toby’s community was evacuated. The Post Office closure stopped all mail service including notices of court hearings.
The court case # UDSS702508 in Central District Civil Division, San Bernardino County, California for the Summary Judgment was not received in a timely manner due to community evacuation. The Bank of New York is now 100% sole owner of the house not just the note holder. Toby and his family were locked out of the house with all their belongings inside on November 30, 2007, four days before the court date to reschedule the Summary Judgment on December 4, 2007. Toby has a paper trail showing dollar amounts, interest rates, note turnovers and charges since 1989.
Tobin Joe Evans, Plaintiff
Mailing address: P. O. Box 555, Twin Peaks, CA 92391
E mail : jayleenc4@hotmail.com Phone: 909-338-5930
Property address: 22853 Alder Lane, Valley of Enchantment, Crestline, California 92325
Legal description: Lot 1, Block 1, Book 24, Page 30, and 31. Map of Valley of Enchantment Park Annex, Rim of the World, California, County of San Bernardino.
Lot 1: 0304204010000, Lot 2: 03042020000, Lot 3: 0304204030000.
Joe M. Evans, Father, Retired Phone: 520-399-2005
1600 W. Camino Urbano, Green Valley, AZ, 85614 E mail : jojonjudy@cox.net
He is not a secret either - rat on his interogation - he can not do it!
THANKS TO THE CONFLICT THEY HAVE, I AM INTEROGATED AT LEAST SINCE 1968 ON OFF
PENETTA DOES IT LIKE THAT!
The fact how oblivious he is about what i=he is doing is pathetic. He needs eldery nursery first.
mymy