heading that pac is democratic senator dianne feinstein over the last year madame feinstein has used her status as the oldest bag of bones in the senate and chairwoman of the intelligence committee to become one of the biggest apologist for the security state and making it very clear that whistleblowers are traitors but america's business is the military complex that what i get in on the action and i write for years now the senator's raised eyebrows among government watchdog groups for voting for hundreds of millions of dollars in government contracts that directly benefit her billionaire hubby richard bloom oh and last but not least is missouri senator roy blunt the man responsible for a little something called the monsanto protection act piece a language that was not ever so cynically into the senate budget bill last year that gave ag giant monsanto immunity from prosecution for six months no shock there is blunt's political career is practically been entirely funded by big ag. been backed by monsanto since two thousand and eight and personally raked in over one hundred. from the c

team america. today senator dianne feinstein the head of the senate intelligence committee said the central intelligence agency had improperly searched a special computer network that congressional aides were using to investigate none other than the cia the senate had been investigating allegations of the agency's abuse in a controversial bush era detention and interrogation program take a look at what feinstein had to say about the incident or of asked for a poet and a recognition that this cia search of computers used by its oversight committee was in appropriate besides the constitutional implication the cia's third may also have violated before commend the computer fraud and abuse act as well as an executive order to triple three. feinstein is seemingly determined to set the record straight in light of the allegations and speculation that have taken root in the last few weeks in her remarks on the hill today feinstein said that she had questioned cia director john brennan about the agency's intentions but she never received any answers despite two letters that she sent back in j

dianne feinstein sherif chairwoman of the senate intelligence committee may have finally woken up to the reality of our out of control surveillance state in a speech earlier this morning a california senator blast of the cia over allegations that it spied on senate intel committee computers or new feinstein the cia spied on those computers when committee investigators were looking at documents concerning the cia's torture program as a senator put it this morning the fact that intelligence agency would spy on the very people trying to keep shaq the son told. committee is a blatant by a lation of our constitution. i have grave concerns that the cia's search may well have violated the separation of powers principles embodied in the united states constitution including the speech and debate clause it may have undermined the constitutional framework essential to effective congressional oversight of intelligence activities or any other government function there is something particularly ironic about senator feinstein speech she's been one of the most vocal supporters of the n.s.a. in the wake

any significant way so when the head of the senate intelligence committee dianne feinstein complained about the cia's alleged hacking into the computers of her staff activist groups accused her of hypocrisy artie's amir a davis cup with a code pink protest group outside dianne feinstein's office sure brings us more from the capitol. as. well today code pink activists gathered here on the hill to pay a special visit to senator dianne feinstein's office the group here is frustrated over senator feinstein's accusations that the cia hacked into senate intelligence committee computers and they tell me that's because they find her concern over the spying to be somewhat hypocritical she shouldn't just be asking for an apology she should say she demands that head start rolling who is responsible for this and they should certainly lose their jobs if not go to jail but we're also saying that she should have been outraged by this kind of spying by the n.s.a. and millions and millions of innocent americans and she wasn't she was actually a cheerleader for the n.s.a. and we were very disappointed

more absurd than senator dianne feinstein and it's a apologist and head of the senate intelligence committee declaring that the cia is potentially violating the constitution and conducting crimes to obstruct her committee's findings oh really funny how the very same woman who's been one of congress's biggest defenders of the unconstitutional dragnet surveillance program is now making such drastic statements against spine when it involves her and her staff and as a whistleblower edward snowden chimed in on the by saying that although the cia is obstruction of the investigation is serious it's equally if not more concerning that we're seeing another miracle effect or an elected official does not care at all that the rights of millions of ordinary citizens are very violated by our spies but suddenly it's a scandal when a politician finds out the same thing happens to them. sounds about right so-called representatives looking out for themselves while throwing the people they represent on the bus now let's break this up. the please please sir they are very hard to take that. long. have

interesting is that senator dianne feinstein actually made no mention of these documents during her senate speech and which she called out the cia for stonewalling other documents you know senator dianne feinstein of course is a democrat do you think it's all at all possible that feinstein is protecting the white house here. i think that's entirely possible i mean the difference the main thrust of this conflict really comes around territory you have the senate select committee on intelligence really focused on the fisc foreign intelligence surveillance court and it's oversight you have the cia concerned with their assets you have the white house concerned with its priorities and each branch is protecting its own turf and so when these things come into conflict you're going to see certain fissures begin to erupt and in what is ordinarily a harmony between the intelligence agencies i do think feinstein could be protecting the white house while the same time trying to get at the documents that they requested from the cia it seems like it's all going to unravel very shortly and i want t

constitutional crisis that was finally convince people like dianne feinstein that it's time to radically overhaul the surveillance state. also every year the congressional progressive caucus puts. ok i'm just sort of here. and if you thought the threat of nuclear war ended with the fall of the berlin wall then think again so what can we do to make sure the future is nuclear weapon and nuclear war free last nuclear policy weapons policy expert joseph cirincione tonight's conversations great minds. this goggles workers across the nation have filed seven class action lawsuits alleging that the fast food giant practiced systematic wage theft of its workers donal's employees filed two lawsuits in michigan one in new york and four in. fornia lawsuits named the mcdonald's corporation and the mcdonald's franchisees as the defendants a lawsuit filed in new york alleges that mcdonald's employees are required to pay out of pocket for the uniforms and all uniform cleaning expenses as additional expenses really hurt already struggling mcdonald's employees and they also violated new york state regulat

what i love about that story is that the senate especially dianne feinstein. goes and says well look we're spying on you the n.s.a. is doing that and we found out because they were snowden's revelations well that's perfectly fine they had to do it they were she literally said they were very big bombs out there ok then three hundred million americans had to be spied into but it turns out when the intelligence community is spying on her or she doesn't like that at all all this on is a whole different ball game that might be unconstitutional you don't say senator feinstein yes that's what we've been saying and edward snowden's been saying all the young turks has turned to an online power i mean you guys are incredible have a billion views on your channel why do you think the media venture has been so enormously successful. well we're just filling a market need you know the conservative free market types should love us so the market needed was truth and actually serving the audience rather the sponsors corporate parents or the government and the reason that we now or you know over a bill

dianne feinstein is that the cia had possibly hacked into the computers of senate staffers and removed key documents and seem to fear it with the investigation to discuss this i'm joined by larry seems his book is called the torture report is also behind the online interactive web site that torture report dot org that is it has built a documentary record of the bush administration torture program larry thank you for coming. thanks for having me the results of the senate investigation are classified what is it that people would find in the report that the u.s. government doesn't want them to know well senator feinstein has been pretty clear and signaling what's in the report when the when the report was completed in two thousand and twelve there was a press release that went with a quote from her saying you know essentially this study that they had done should put to rest. once and for all the debate about whether or not the united states should be involved in the kinds of detention and interrogation practices that were carried out into the under the cia's rendition detention an

simply do that slike you know i don't understand why dianne feinstein doesn't just do that. or at least declassify a summary of what they may have thought. been this entire situation is boggle the mind since she sits in france and came out and talked about the cia pos the cia possibly spying i guess a couple weeks ago but i don't understand. is why it is that it almost seems this agency is out of control and the problem of the usual bickering back and forth between the political parties is that the agency will cover under the ministration it's in power at the time and so this back and forth between ok you have the you have bush protect you have the bush administration protecting cia then you have the obama administration protecting the cia and then you have some weird political infighting that goes on between the parties but somehow some way there has to be a lot more exposure to the operations of the agency non-participant but that's the reason this is not a new thing here. the church commission found that not only was the cia and the f.b.i. being used politically by nixon which

reform the n.s.a. surveillance programs in the senate there is dianne feinstein's pfizer improvements bill or act in the house there is mike rogers and doc dutch ruppersberger pfizer the transparency and modernization act in both the senate and the house there's the usa freedom act supported by vermont senator patrick leahy and patriot act author jim sensenbrenner and finally out of the white house there is president obama still unnamed n.s.a. reform proposal general outline of which was confirmed by the administration yesterday each of these plans claims to. alan's privacy and security but some are more flawed and potentially more dangerous than others joining us now to help break down all the n.s.a. reform plans is kathleen mcclellan national security and human rights council at the government accountability project kathleen welcome thanks for being with us today thank you for having me so dianne feinstein's let's just go through these we have dianne feinstein's improvements act and mike rogers as far as a transparency and modernization act they're both being criticized

senator dianne feinstein is expected to begin to push to declassify the sixty two hundred page report later this week. now today marks a decade since the gruesome killings of four private security contractors in iraq the four men were shot in an ambush in march two thousand and four and burned in their vehicles by an angry mob which hung their mutilated bodies from a bridge very gruesome videos taken from the scene extremely graphic the images became though a symbol of the instability and unrest that would highlight the entire u.s. mission in iraq currently iraq is importing american weapons supplies and you guessed it private contractors to keep the developing incursion at bay. if you're wondering those contractors many of them anyway used to be the same folks hired by the u.s. department of defense according to the wall street journal about five thousand contractors are supporting the american diplomatic mission in iraq more than a third of those are americans over the next few months the u.s. government is expected to begin sending more than six billion dollars and military equipme

program congressional officials have strongly condemned the agency including senator dianne feinstein for doing this but yet we haven't really seen much fall out at least yet for the cia do you think we will see any fallout for the cia or for you know its head john brennan of course not i think that as things heated up i think obama got involved joe biden got involved harry reid got involved and they found a way to move forward but you know the cia spied on congress or snooped in congress's files this is not the first time they've done stuff like that as dianne feinstein's made clear they've done it this is the third time they've done it they disappeared some other files there were a bunch of files from d.o.j. is own skiff there they're top classified documents and and nothing has ever happened to cia in all of this and probably the reason why is because the authorization for the torture program as cheney just said it came directly from president bush so if you're going to start holding cia responsible you're also going to have to acknowledge the president's could be held responsible for

that were simply not true about the conduct of torture chairwoman dianne feinstein is overseeing the declassification process in the senate intelligence committee she's out odds with the cia over allegations the agency spied on her staff as they were compiling the torture report and she said the conclusions of the report sure that the cia's program was quote brutal and un-american but does that mean following its release that people at the cia will be held accountable nothing has ever happened to cia in all of this and probably the reason why is because the authorization for the quarter program as cheney just said it came directly from president bush so if you're going to start holding cia responsible you're also going to have to acknowledge the president's could be held responsible for the torture that they signed off on and i don't think people are ready to do that either and so there's still a long way to go before the public will actually get to read the pages of the torture report we also know that republicans on the senate intelligence committee who are more sympathetic to

dianne feinstein said the report exposes brutality that stands in stark contrast to our values as a nation so does this mean that president bush and his administration will finally be held accountable for their crimes that and more in tonight's big picture rumble and global warming is real and possibly even worse than we've been told that will lead to the destruction of human civilization within just a few decades alas professor guy mcpherson in tonight's conversations with grave marker it's. nice to know this right now there's an effort underway in the senate to reach a compromise on a minimum wage increase that might have a better chance of passing both houses of congress maine republican senator susan collins who's leading the compromise effort wants democrats to accept a smaller minimum wage increase than their initial ten dollars and a proposal. and throw a few other incentives the republicans however senate majority leader harry reid has made it quite clear that there will be no compromising on the amount of a minimum wage increase speaking to reporters after a minimum wage ra

from here you know the kind of story about the back story of this is the dianne feinstein was actually being very protective of. dick cheney and all the whole bunch until she discovered that they were. pulling through her computers and messing with her staff from space was spying on her and she got very. she lost her commitment to being on their side i don't know how to characterize this or there certainly is there's some truth to well i think there's certainly been things that we disagreed with from senator feinstein in her defense of some of the counterterrorism tactics that have been used by the administration and i do think that one of the triggers certainly for her speech a couple of weeks ago was the fact that she found out that the cia had been meddling in her staff's investigation on this and with their proper oversight function and so whatever her motivation was that speech that sort of brought everything out in the open this fight between the cia and congress has been useful for us in that we can you know we can see that the cia has been meddling in more than just trying to c

committee chair dianne feinstein has been raising her voice loudly against the agency so feinstein's perfectly ok with the n.s.a. spying on every human being on the planet but as soon as she found out that the cia been spying on her and her staff she suddenly became very vocal about her privacy being violated she's also accused the cia of breaking the law and undermining the entire oversight process. there's one thing we know about the cia it's the last thing they want is to make their clandestine activities public so of course the agency is doing everything in its power to make sure the report does as a little damage as possible which includes heavy editing redaction and it pains me to say this but attacking feinstein for absurd reasons check out former cia director michael hayden at the sam fox news senator feinstein wanted to report so scathing that it would ensure that an un-american brutal program of detention interrogation would never again be considered or permitted now that sentence that motivation for the report chris may show deep emotional feeling on the part o

purger in a letter addressed to senator dianne feinstein and senator saxby chambliss clapper wrote quote the executive branch is currently exploring ways in which it can provide the american people more information about the u.s. as use of force outside areas of active hostilities while to no one's surprise in the face of the indiscriminate spying and drone strike movement dianne feinstein was all too eager to comply with kloppers request that's right just yesterday the crypt keeper self along with other high ranking intelligence committee members decided to remove the transparency requirement from the bill just before it goes to the senate floor for a vote because while feinstein fight to declassify her committee's own report on cia torture declassified the number of civilians murdered by machines is just a step too far not get this the most insane part of all of it is that feinstein was the center of that propose the transparency measure in the first place and now out of sheer cowardice she completely buckled under the pressure of taking even the most miniscule step to shed light