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Feinstein: Obama’s ISIS Approach is Not ‘Sufficient to the Job’

Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Senate Intelligence Committee ranking Democrat member Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said the Obama administration’s handling of ISIS has not been “sufficient to the job.” When asked if she agrees with the Obama administration strategy

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Top Dem Feinstein: ISIS Is Not Contained, ISIS Is Expanding

Monday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) pushed back against President Barack Obama for his suggestion that ISIS was contained, which he had said last week in an interview with ABC.

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Ted Cruz Slams China’s Population Control Policy

On Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) blasted China’s human rights record and asked for unanimous consent to rename the plaza in front of the Chinese embassy in Washington, D.C. as “Liu Xiaobo Plaza,” after the Nobel Peace Prize winner imprisoned on charges of inciting state subversion.

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Jerry Brown ‘like Reagan and Trump,’ Could Win in 2016: Columnist

California Gov. Jerry Brown is a “geezer,” but he has the “opportunity of a lifetime” in the 2016 presidential race. That’s according to Los Angeles Times columnist George Skelton, who says that Brown “never has been in better position to run”–though he argues that “Brown blew his best chance” because of his three previous failed runs (1976, 1980, and 1992).

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S.F. Police Union Blasts Liberal Politicians, Sanctuary City Policies

The San Francisco Police Officers Association (SFPOA), the city’s police union, has blasted San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi and Public Defender Jeff Adachi following the shooting death of Kathryn Steinle July 1 by a five-time deportee and seven-time convicted felon who had come to San Francisco because it is a “sanctuary city” that does not enforce federal immigration laws.

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Feinstein Blasts S.F. Sheriff but Promotes Obama’s Executive Amnesty

U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein penned a letter to San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee blaming the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department for not handing over five-time deportee and seven-time convicted felon Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez to federal immigration officials. Lopez-Sanchez confessed to killing 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle on July 1, though he has pleaded not guilty.

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Feinstein: ‘We Have to Get Very Serious’ About Eradicating ISIS

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said she was “very worried” about ISIS and thus, “We have to get very serious” about eradicating them. In discussing a U.S. special operations forces mission that killed ISIS commander Friday in Syria, Feinstein

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Feinstein: Netanyahu Needs to ‘Contain Himself’

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu needed to “contain himself” and stop criticizing President Barack Obama’s proposed nuclear deal with Iran. Feinstein said, “I don’t think it’s helpful for

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Iran Wants Sanctions Relief up Front Before Deal

The Iranian regime apparently believes it can extract additional concessions from world powers as the deadline for a March 31 deal approaches, according to a report by Bloomberg News from Lausanne, Switzerland. Iran wants UN sanctions to be lifted up front–not kept in place for several years while international monitors measure Iranian compliance, as the U.S. and other powers (Russia, China, France, the United Kingdom, and Germany) have said was a non-negotiable provision.

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Hillary Clinton Called Out by Top Democrat over Email Scandal

Former Secretary of State and probable Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton may have seen her hopes of taking residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. swirl down the political toilet over her use of her private email to conduct all of her government business while she served as America’s top diplomat.

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Feinstein Calls on Hillary Clinton to ‘Come out’ over Emails

On Sunday morning’s edition of Meet the Press, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) called on Hillary Clinton to “come out” with the truth about her emails after it emerged last week that she had used a private email address for all of her correspondence as Secretary of State, against department policy.

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Feinstein Criticizes Netanyahu’s ‘Arrogance’

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement regarding him being a spokesmen for all Jewish people (a statement that was referring to him going to Paris after the terror attacks there, but where he also said

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Feinstein: Middle East ‘Coming Apart’

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said that the Middle East is “coming apart” on Sunday’s “State of the Union” on CNN. During a discussion on Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress, Feinstein touted the importance of a deal with Iran

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Blue State Blues: Bibi Is Coming–Whether the Jewish Establishment Likes It or Not

And Esther said to Hathach, and she ordered him to [tell] Mordechai: “All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s provinces know that any man or woman who comes to the king, into the inner court, who is not summoned, there is but one law for him, to be put to death, except the one to whom the king extends the golden scepter, that he may live, but I have not been summoned to come to the king these thirty days. And they told Esther’s words to Mordechai. And Mordechai ordered to reply to Esther, “Do not imagine to yourself that you will escape in the king’s house from among all the Jews.” (Esther 4:10-13)

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Villaraigosa Out of Senate Race

Former Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has decided not to run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by liberal Democrat Barbara Boxer after 2016. With strong support among Latino voters in California, Villaraigosa was seen as a major potential threat to Attorney General Kamala Harris, who was the first to declare for the seat.

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Feinstein: Terror Sleeper Cells In US

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), said, “I think there are sleeper cells not only in France, but certainly in other countries, and yes, even in our own.”

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Senator Boxer To Retire: Replacement Donnybrook To Begin

It has been said the wait for Boxer or her colleague, Senator Dianne Feinstein, to retire has been like driving around a full parking lot waiting for a spot to open up. Well, with the news that one of those spots (at least) is going to be open, a lot of aspiring United States Senators will be jockeying to get into the position. Boxer’s early announcement means there will be plenty of time for anyone thinking about running to assess his or her chances and jump into the fray.

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Five Reasons Why the Senate ‘Torture’ Report Became a Flop

Congressional Democrats, leftwing groups, and the mainstream media were certain this month’s Senate Intelligence Committee report on the CIA enhanced interrogation program (which they call torture) would spark a groundswell of anger against Bush administration officials and the CIA that would change the subject from the president’s growing unpopularity and the Democratic Party’s poor showing in the mid-term elections.

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UK Spies 'May Have Witnessed' CIA Torture

A former security minister has said that British spies may have been aware of torture carried out by CIA agents. Lord West of Spithead, who served in Gordon Brown’s Labour government, said there may have been the “odd case” where

UK Spies 'May Have Witnessed' CIA Torture