Feinstein In Deep After She’s Caught W/ Iranian Minister On Her Phone, Raising Countless Questions A

He was spying for China. She didn't want to hire a black American or a jobless veteran.

 

It’s almost as if you intentionally left out the latter portion of what I wrote so you could make this post.

And for the record, the Logan Act doesn’t restrict contact with foreign officials, it restricts unauthorized negotiations with foreign officials, which is what I was addressing in the latter portion of my post

 

Wrong

 

My apologies. I was in a hurry last night and was unable to adequately read your entire post. I "clipped" it as I was responding to your opening statement. After reading your complete post, you are correct and it appears we are in agreement for the most part. She DOES have authority if she was only discussing legit issues and not negotiating. However, even if it was legit issues she discussed, she would be taking a very big chance if her conversation was private and there were no records/witnesses of what was discussed.

I also agree that the fact that his contact information being in her directory means nothing. It does not mean she talked to him at all. All it means is that she knows how to get a hold of him.

 

Just imagine if it had been Graham phoning Tehran all on his own without the state department's knowledge and approval.

 

This is almost as bad as Speaker Nancy having tea with Assad. The Dems hate America and tend to embrace terrorist regimes

 

If the Obama state department approved in 2007 this was entirely appropriate.

 

It seems she has a problem keeping secrets. There needs to be a full investigation so the MSM can ignore it like they did with the Chinese spy that was on her staff for years.

Explain the Chinese spy, Sen. Feinstein

Imagine if it emerged that the Republican chairman of the House or Senate intelligence committee had a Russian spy working on their staff. Think it would cause a political firestorm? Well, this month we learned that Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) had a Chinese spy on her staff who worked for her for about 20 years, was listed as an “office director” on payroll records and served as her driver when she was in San Francisco, all while reporting to China’s Ministry of State Security through China’s San Francisco Consulate. The reaction of the mainstream media? Barely a peep.

Feinstein acknowledged the infiltration but played down its significance. “Five years ago the FBI informed me it had concerns that an administrative member of my California staff was potentially being sought out by the Chinese government to provide information,” Feinstein said in a statement — which means the breach took place while Feinstein was heading the Intelligence Committee. But, Feinstein insisted, “he never had access to classified or sensitive information or legislative matters” and was immediately fired. In other words: junior staffer, no policy role, no access to secrets, quickly fired — no big deal.

But it is a big deal. I asked several former senior intelligence and law enforcement officials how serious this breach might have been. “It’s plenty serious,” one former top Justice Department official told me. “Focusing on his driver function alone, in Mafia families, the boss’s driver was among the most trusted men in the crew, because among other things he heard everything that was discussed in the car.”

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Typically officials don't have Chinese spies working for them. Typically the heads of committees leave the negotiations up to the president and the Sec State. I wouldn't say this is a "typical" situation. That's kind of the point of the OP.

 

If she were negotiating with Iran without the proper authorization from the federal government she would be committing a crime, however the only information we have to go off of on the matter is a photograph of the senator's phone with the Iranian foreign minister's name on it.

 

Dems are a national security threat.

 

We don't know what was said, she could have simply been warning Tehran that provoking an unstable President was not a good idea.

We already have War Vets killing themselves at record rates - do we really want to add another hundred thousand of them to the bonfire unless it's the last possible option? Do we really want to throw anther 10 million refugees from Iran into the mix? I want every high ranking official in government working to prevent that.

 

Trumps not Obama, he won’t lead us into another needless Middle East war...also he has fixed many of the issues obama left in the VA. Folks are getting the help they need

 

Bolton and Trump are unstable.

 

Ending wars is only unstable to a warmongering Obamabot

 

No, they're not. They still commit suicide at an extremely high rate.

 

The VA is in a much better shape, vets are dying on the street awaiting appointments with the Obama admin.

 

Obama started and ended his war in Libya without a single American death.

 

Good Jesus, you mean senators can talk to foreign leaders? Trump never did this even when he was a private citizen. My GOD. Traitors Lock THEM UP

 

Um an ambassador was killer as well as other Americans. I’ll give you he and his admin tried to cover that up. Libya is a crap hole now, with an active slave trade. Obama made slave trading great again there

 

Chris Hondros, James Foley, and Clare Gillis might disagree with that conclusion.

 

Which occurred months after the war ended.
EVERY President has lost foreign service operatives.

 

An event which occurred month after the war ended.

And the state of Libya and Iraq show how war is rarely a good solution to anything, regardless of what party starts it.

 

I'm sure Amb Stevens family takes great pride in the fact Obama ended that war....

Well, it actually shows what happens when you have an incompetent leader..when Obama was handed Iraq it was free and stable...his words...what he did with it, and Libya...that's all on his admin

 

fyi, the poster is confused on which pres brought the usa into war in the me.