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Dianne Feinstein

Phone Booth

So what if the government tracks my phone calls?

Global Politics

It’s a question that could come up at Christmas parties around the world. We used a Freedom of Information Act Request to help answer it.

NSA Spying Protest

Ten talking points the NSA uses to justify its spying

Global Politics
The flag on the US embassy is pictured next to the Reichstag building, seat of the German lower house of parliament Bundestag. A German newspaper said on Sunday that President Barack Obama knew his intelligence service was eavesdropping on Angela Merkel a

What will it take to curb the NSA’s spying? Political courage, says an expert

Global Politics

Zero Dark Thirty, out this weekend, ‘remarkably accurate’ yet still controversial

Arts, Culture & Media

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange awaits word on request for asylum in Ecuador

Global Politics

Senator Dianne Feinstein on Drones, Assault Weapons Ban

After this month’s Senate-floor filibuster by Senator Rand Paul, the debate over the Obama administration’s drone program have been reignited. And a debate that never left – gun control – took a hit this week when Senate majority leader Harry Reid struck struck an amendment banning assault weapons. Sen. Dianne Feinstein  (D-CA) has been intensely involved […]

The World

Pelosi, Panetta and Feinstein: The California Connection

Global Politics

The Republicans’ claims that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was briefed about the CIA’s ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ placed her and other California politicians under a microscope. How will these rivalries affect the national debate over torture?