Word: feinstein
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...detector, received a pat down, and sprinted around a corner to encounter a cheering crowd standing along 1st Street, with thousands in front and millions behind. Finding a spot amongst the craning necks, I could just begin to focus on the dignitaries on the Capitol steps as Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA) introduced the Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts, Jr. ’76 to conduct the swearing-in of the president-elect. The time...
Emanuel was also blamed for the Obama team's failure to notify incoming Senate Intelligence Committee chairwoman Dianne Feinstein before leaking the choice of former Congressman Leon Panetta for Central Intelligence Agency director--a gesture that might have averted Feinstein's huffy declaration that she would have preferred an "intelligence professional...
...resign, brassy Blago had turned the tables on rectitudinous Reid. In Illinois a person is governor until proved guilty, and some legal scholars opined that Burris had the bona fides even if they were issued by a character out of The Sopranos. Within hours, Senate Rules Committee chair Dianne Feinstein broke with Reid, calling for Burris to join the club. The Senate leader, out on a limb that his comrades were sawing off, soon softened his opposition. "[Bleep]ing golden," the cynic might say, borrowing from the Blagojevich idiom as allegedly captured on a federal wiretap...
...believe the agency is best served by having an intelligence professional in charge.' DIANNE FEINSTEIN, head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, questioning President-elect Barack Obama for choosing former White House chief of staff Leon Panetta to head...
...Leading Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee Jay Rockefeller and Dianne Feinstein have already criticized the choice of Panetta, claiming the CIA needs to be led by an experienced intelligence professional. But right now, political clout and the ability to be a strong advocate for the CIA far outweigh the virtues of being a professional spy and knowing the difference between a "live drop" and a "dead drop." A professional from the ranks would be eaten up by Hillary Clinton at State or Bob Gates at Defense. Or he or she would end up like Bill Clinton's CIA director...