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Sen. Dianne Feinstein defends NSA and need for intelligence gathering
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) leaves the Senate floor in January. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) offered a full-throated defense of the government’s collection of data on billions of American phone calls, saying Wednesday that the National Security Agency’s practices have safeguarded the nation without trampling on civil liberties.
“What keeps me up at night, candidly, is another attack against the United States. And I see enough of the threat stream to know that is possible,” Feinstein said at a Pacific Council on International Policy dinner in Century City.
She pointed to a warning Wednesday about potential bombs hidden in the shoes of passengers on flights bound for the United States.
“But the way we prevent another attack – and this is tricky – is intelligence,” she said. “You have to know what’s going to happen, because it’s too late otherwise.”
Bill Bard says:
This woman talks out of her arse, still pretending 9/11 was a terrorist attack, and that Snowden could have gone to her with his concerns, he would have been suicided. What a load of fucking Bullshit.
Source: http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2014/02/sen-dianne-feinstein-defends-nsa-and-need-for-intelligence-gathering/
