<story><title>Feinstein Publicly Accuses C.I.A. of Spying on Congress</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/12/us/cia-accused-of-illegally-searching-computers-used-by-senate-committee.html?hp&amp;_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nathancahill</author><text>This is the same women who said &amp;quot;It’s called protecting America&amp;quot; when defending the NSA&amp;#x27;s gathering of phone call records. [0] So surveillance is good, but not when you&amp;#x27;re the person being surveilled?&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/dianne-feinstein-on-nsa-its-called-protecting-america-92340.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.politico.com&amp;#x2F;story&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;dianne-feinstein-on-ns...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spikels</author><text>Yes - Feinstein has been awful on the NSA spying issue. So far there have been only two narrow issues that have bothered her all all: spying on her and spying on friendly foreign leaders. She has been one of the ruling elite for so long that she has lost the ability to see this issue from any other perspective. She needs to retire and enjoy the roughly $100 million she has acquired in a life of &amp;quot;public service&amp;quot;.</text></comment>
<story><title>Feinstein Publicly Accuses C.I.A. of Spying on Congress</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/12/us/cia-accused-of-illegally-searching-computers-used-by-senate-committee.html?hp&amp;_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nathancahill</author><text>This is the same women who said &amp;quot;It’s called protecting America&amp;quot; when defending the NSA&amp;#x27;s gathering of phone call records. [0] So surveillance is good, but not when you&amp;#x27;re the person being surveilled?&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/dianne-feinstein-on-nsa-its-called-protecting-america-92340.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.politico.com&amp;#x2F;story&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;dianne-feinstein-on-ns...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>This is an overly simplistic argument. It is not inconsistent to believe that it is a far greater danger for the executive to spy on a co-equal branch of government, in a way that acquires content, than when the executive spys on the public generally in a way that acquires only metadata. It&amp;#x27;s glib to say &amp;quot;oh, so Congressmen are more important than regular people?&amp;quot; but in at least certain ways, it&amp;#x27;s true. The dangers created in the two situations are quite different. You might have a different evaluation of the relative gravity of the dangers, you have to concede that they&amp;#x27;re different.</text></comment>