{"id":14578,"date":"2012-06-11T13:44:39","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T17:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=14578"},"modified":"2012-06-11T13:44:39","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T17:44:39","slug":"senator-feinstein-feisty-over-national-security-leaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/14578\/senator-feinstein-feisty-over-national-security-leaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Feinstein Feisty Over National Security Leaks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kudos to U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) for putting politics aside and directly challenging the Obama administration to investigate what she calls \u201can avalanche of leaks\u201d<\/a> harming national security.<\/p>\n

Feinstein\u2019s public offensive began last week with a press release<\/a> where she acknowledged sending \u201ca classified letter to the president outlining my deep concerns about the release\u201d of information \u201cregarding alleged cyber efforts targeting Iran\u2019s nuclear program.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Feinstein said on CBS\u2019 Face the Nation that the effectiveness of two recently appointed federal prosecutors to investigate the leaks about covert U.S. efforts to combat threats from Iran and terrorist groups linked to al-Qaeda would be judged on whether it was \u201cnonpartisan,\u201d<\/a> \u201cvigorous,\u201d and able to \u201cmove ahead rapidly.\u201d<\/p>\n

But if Attorney General Eric Holder has proved anything during his tenure \u2013 as the face of the Fast and Furious scandal, non-enforcement of the Defense of Marriage Act, and refusing to prosecute voter intimidation by the New Black Panthers \u2013 it\u2019s that he is incapable of being nonpartisan in the administration of justice.<\/p>\n

Feinstein isn\u2019t waiting on Holder to change his spots.\u00a0 In her press release last week she promised to include new disclosure requirements to her Select Committee on Intelligence so that administration officials can be held accountable for leaks that put at risk the lives of Americans and American allies \u2013 even if it might help President Obama look tough on foreign policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Feinstein\u2019s reaction thus far is pure commonsense.\u00a0 Conservatives should support her push back against the Obama administration, and open up avenues for her to do more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kudos to U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) for putting politics aside and directly challenging the Obama administration to investigate what she calls \u201can avalanche of leaks\u201d harming national security. Feinstein\u2019s public offensive began last week with a press release where she acknowledged sending \u201ca classified letter to the president outlining my deep concerns about the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,3606,2561,130,3607,731,178],"class_list":["post-14578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-dianne-feinstein","tag-intelligence","tag-iran","tag-leak","tag-national-security","tag-u-s-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14578"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14583,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14578\/revisions\/14583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}