Yeah, we are all so impressed that you dug up a copy of the Army Field Manual and did some grandstanding with it....how'd that stunt end up? Oh yeah, it changed NOTHING.

""I was the one who went into the conference committee" between the House and the Senate last year with an amendment that would use the Army Field Manual as the universal standard for detainee interrogations, she added."

She's already backed oof of that in favor of continuing to allow the CIA to torture.

Glenn Greenwald had a recent post on this.

As one of the many self-aggrandizing Dem Bush enablers, you bet she wants "...a break with the past". That way she won't be held accountable.

She a scoundrel.

DiFi = Ted Stevens in drag.

Another brilliant move by Camp Obama: appoint a CIA chief with clean hands, his own Washington power base, and bottomless loyalty to O., and give Dianne F. a ringy-dingy after the fact to say "sorry" and remind her who's gonna run national intelligence.

Feinstein might have sided with Bush, but she wouldn't DARE to side with the Republicans against Obama. And he knows it. This might be Obama's way of letting her know there's a new sheriff in town.

I presume we all remember Kyle Foggo and his problems? There is an additional need to reduce contract CIA employees.

Panetta is management and budget, Kappes can be intelligence until Panetta learns the ropes.

Feinstein's comment to the media was a shot across the bow to the Obama camp. She doesn't like having a CIA Director with external sources of power outside herself.

Panetta is going to be Obama's man, not DiFi's.

It's not so clear what Rockefeller's objection is, except that if DiFi has less power over the CIA and Panetta turns up an unfavorable explanation why Jay has repeatedly rolled over for the Bush administration, Panetta is less likely to be intimidated to bury it.

Those are my guesses.

Feinstein and Rockefeller got the message; Bush enablers are NOT part of the Change.

By the way, Feinstein was one of Mukasey's champions at the confirmation.

I live in California and Feinstein is my senator. I've gotten tired of emailing her to ask, "why are you acting like a Republican?" Is there a chance now that she'll suddenly remember she's a Democrat? Maybe Obama can remind her.

Feinstein's comment to the media was a shot across the bow to the Obama camp. She doesn't like having a CIA Director with external sources of power outside herself.

Panetta is going to be Obama's man, not DiFi's.

It's not so clear what Rockefeller's objection is, except that if DiFi has less power over the CIA and Panetta turns up an unfavorable explanation why Jay has repeatedly rolled over for the Bush administration, Panetta is less likely to be intimidated to bury it.

Those are my guesses.

Feinstein, along with Rockefeller, voted for the Iraq War Resolution in 2002. Wyder voted against this resolution.

This should be enough to clarify who fired what shots about what issues. If Feinstein wants to make this an issue, I am convinced that the California voters will be more ticked with her than with Obama. There's no reason to care about Rockefeller since WVa is a Republican state.

These are the brutal facts that some of our "highly regarded" Democratic senators manage to forget.

Feinstein's record on committee (like Rockefeller's)
ill equips her (or him) to be critical of the Panetta appointment.

Panetta is there to reform the laxness and flexible standards of the CIA. He is an outstanding manager and will do an excellent job.

I find it interesting that TODAY, January 6, 2009, I got a reply to an email I sent Feinstein sometime last year (I email my senator a lot) about ending U.S. torture. It promotes her Army Field Manual proposal of last August.

She really wants that out there today. Gotta ask myself, what did she sign off on that she wants forgotten?

Well at least the Feinstein pile-on here is more civil than the obscene, childish rants on DKos.

But remember folks, Feinstein led the fight against John Roberts' confirmation as SC Chief Justice while Feingold, Lieberman, Leahy and many other Dems voted to confirm him (Google 'Roberts confirmation vote' for complete list). She's far from perfect, but hardly a right-wing Bush clone. In fact, a look at Obama's cabinet would indicate she'd fit right in with his administration.

Can Bush give Frankestein an extraordinary rendition before he leaves office?

I love it! Screwing w an incoming Democratic president, elected by an clear majority. Feinstein just wrote her political obituary. Bu-bye Di-Di! I hope you end up in the clink w the rest of the Bushies.

In what is probably a move designed to express her dismay at being ignored in the Panetta matter, Feinstein has now come out in favor of seating Burris. Act out much, Senator?

SF female billionaire that sides with the opposition far too often, will head up the intelligence committee. Didn't Pelosi dump Jane Harmon for being exactly the same person? But, of course, Pelosi is a SF female billionaire herself! Go figure!