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Dianne Feinstein

Fuss Over Panetta Should Remind Hill Dems: It's Not About You

Art Brodsky | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics

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Art Brodsky

Obama comes into office with a clear election mandate, and the last thing he needs is the public view of a bunch of squabbling Democrats (see: Burris, Roland) doing the GOP's work for it.

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Feinstein: Bad Choice for Intelligence

Stephen Zunes | Posted 02.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dianne Feinstein, Senate Intelligence Committee, Nuclear Weapons, Iraq, George W. Bush, Politics News
Stephen Zunes

If Dianne Feinstein's real goal was to protect us from Iraq's alleged WMD's, she would have called for the withdrawal of troops once they invaded and discovered that there weren't such weapons after all.

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Feinstein Not Happy With Obama's CIA Pick

Washington Independent | Posted 02.05.2009 | Politics

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the California Democrat who's about to take the reins as chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, doesn't app...

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Inauguration News: D.C. Power Plays and Other Craziness

Chris Weigant | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

With slightly less than a month and a half to go before Barack Obama's inauguration, Washington, D.C. has officially reached the "freakout" point on the Richter scale of event planning.

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Dem Senator Reasserts Hard Line Against Torture After Blogger Outrage

New York Times | Scott Shane And Mark Mazzetti | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics

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After some bloggers raised concerns that Senator Dianne Feinstein might be shifting her stance on the issue of American interrogation policy, the Cali...

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Friday Talking Points [57] -- End Of Prohibition 75th Anniversary Edition

Chris Weigant | Posted 01.05.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Brian Williams, NBC's talking head extraordinaire, is probably a decent guy, a guy with whom you could sit down and have a beer. [More on the alcohol...

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Key Senate Dems Suddenly Backtracking On Torture Policy

Salon | Posted 01.04.2009 | Politics

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Time constraints prevented me yesterday from writing about Dianne Feinstein's comments concerning torture in yesterday's New York Times, in which the ...

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Sen. Feinstein On "Milk": "It's Very Painful For Me"

New York Times | Posted 12.24.2008 | Politics

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Dianne Feinstein is not sure she'll ever be able to watch the movie "Milk," even though she's in it. ... I asked Senator Feinstein, who became mayor...

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It's Up To Us Now, Protect Marriage Equality

Gavin Newsom | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics

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Gavin Newsom

We have less than 24 hours to protect the freedom to marry by persuading every single person we know to vote NO on Prop. 8 in California.

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Open Letter to Sen. Feinstein

Lane Hudson | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Dianne Feinstein, Gay Rights, Proposition 8, Harvey Milk, Marriage Equality, Marriage, Politics News
Lane Hudson

At a time when Prop 8 threatens to deal an enormous setback to the fight for equality for the LGBT community, politicians have been silent for far too long. One of those politicians is you.

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Friday Talking Points [48] -- Throwing Out The Rulebook

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Back in Volume 36 of this Friday Talking Points column, I pointed out what seemed to me to be an obvious observation -- that the media was going a lot...

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Friday Talking Points [35] -- Tim Russert Memorial Edition

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.21.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Nobody seriously annoyed me this week, but I will launch a pre-emptive finger-wagging, to anyone on the left who can't resist the urge to be disrespectful of Tim Russert's memory right now.

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Reid Considers Extending Protect America Act For One Month

The Hill | Manu Raju | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said Tuesday he would seek to extend a controversial interim wiretapping law through February to avoid the ea...

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Max Follmer

Dems Set To Kill Feinstein Censure Resolution

HuffingtonPost.com | Max Follmer | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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California Sen. Dianne Feinstein and the state's Democratic Party pushed back Wednesday against a proposal by a coalition of progressives to censure t...

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Max Follmer

Feinstein Faces Dem Censure After Backing Mukasey

HuffingtonPost.com | Max Follmer | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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One day after voting to elevate a divisive conservative judge to the federal appeals court in New Orleans, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein was the pr...

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Feinstein Now Backs Immunity For Telecoms Involved In Warrantless Spying

San Francisco Chronicle | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Thursday that she favors legal immunity for telecommunications companies that allegedly shared millions of customers' telep...

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