Feinstein opens mouth, inserts foot.

[Bro. Curtis]

She's as bad as Biden, and it looks like Obama will expand the war. Not good news for our already strained relationships with the nuclear Pakistan. Or the zero-heads.


WASHINGTON, D.C. - A senior U.S. lawmaker said Thursday that unmanned CIA Predator aircraft operating in Pakistan are flown from an airbase inside that country, a revelation likely to embarrass the Pakistani government and complicate its counterterrorism collaboration with the United States.

The disclosure by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, marked the first time a U.S. official had publicly commented on where the Predator aircraft patrolling Pakistan take off and land.

At a hearing, Feinstein expressed surprise at Pakistani opposition to the ongoing campaign of Predator-launched CIA missile strikes against Al Qaeda targets along Pakistan's northwest border.

"As I understand it, these are flown out of a Pakistani base," she said of the planes.....



http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-090213-pakistan-us,0,1099409.story

 

[Scarlett O.]

Pogo, circa 1971

 

[Mexdeaf]

Pogo, circa 1971

Sad, isn't it?

 

[LeBuick]

She's as bad as Biden, and it looks like Obama will expand the war. Not good news for our already strained relationships with the nuclear Pakistan. Or the zero-heads.

She might be a close second but no one is as bad as the gaff machine...

 

[EdSutton]

Well, if Sen. Feinstein actually did the "open mouth - insert foot" bit, it's a definite improvement, in the approach of the usual modus operandi of the Congress.

Usually it's the "open mouth - change feet" approach. :tonofbricks:

Ed

 

[windcatcher]

Sure it's a 'slip' or a carefully planned 'leak'?

 

[EdSutton]

Sure it's a 'slip' or a carefully planned 'leak'?

Leak??

What leak??



Ed

 

[LeBuick]

Sure it's a 'slip' or a carefully planned 'leak'?

At least loose lips are an equal opportunity disaster. She is no different than the Republican Rep who twittered his visit to the middle east.

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1878773,00.html

So perhaps it's not all that surprising that Representative Pete Hoekstra unwittingly triggered a maelstrom of criticism last weekend when he Twittered about his trip to Iraq.

Or the GOP from VA who twittered they were about to have a Democrat defect to their side...

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/02/virginia-gop-chairmans-blog-outreach-massive-fail.php

Yesterday the Virginia GOP came very close to taking control of the state Senate, nearly luring a Democratic Senator to switch parties and put them at a 20-20 tie, which would have been broken by the Republican Lt. Governor. Then Jeff Frederick, a state legislator and the party chairman, ruined it all by Twittering this:

Big news coming out of Senate: Apparently one dem is either switching or leaving the dem caucus. Negotiations for power sharing underway.

 

[Bro. Curtis]

Sure it's a 'slip' or a carefully planned 'leak'?

Good point. I don't know why we're trying to anger Pakistan ?

 

[carpro]

She's as bad as Biden, and it looks like Obama will expand the war. Not good news for our already strained relationships with the nuclear Pakistan. Or the zero-heads.


WASHINGTON, D.C. - A senior U.S. lawmaker said Thursday that unmanned CIA Predator aircraft operating in Pakistan are flown from an airbase inside that country, a revelation likely to embarrass the Pakistani government and complicate its counterterrorism collaboration with the United States.

The disclosure by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, marked the first time a U.S. official had publicly commented on where the Predator aircraft patrolling Pakistan take off and land.

At a hearing, Feinstein expressed surprise at Pakistani opposition to the ongoing campaign of Predator-launched CIA missile strikes against Al Qaeda targets along Pakistan's northwest border.

"As I understand it, these are flown out of a Pakistani base," she said of the planes.....



http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-090213-pakistan-us,0,1099409.story

Sorta reminds me of "leaky" Leahy. Hoof in moouth disease is par for the course for democrats.

Or was it intentional, as was the case with Leahy?

 

[Revmitchell]

Good point. I don't know why we're trying to anger Pakistan ?

1. Because he doesnt know what he is doing
2. He wants to be the hero that gets Bin Laden

 

[LeBuick]

2. He wants to be the hero that gets Bin Laden

And this is a bad thing </scratches head>???