Sen. Feinstein: Press Must Stop Calling NSA Spying ‘Surveillance’
She Called Them Surveillance in Past Comments
by Jason Ditz
AntiWar.com
September 26, 2013
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman and outspoken surveillance enthusiast Dianne Feinstein (D – CA) has demanded today during the committee hearing that the American press stop referring to the NSA surveillance programs as “surveillance programs.”
During the comments, Sen. Feinstein insisted that it was unfair of the media to the telephone surveillance scheme as a “surveillance program” because it “just collects metadata.”
Hilariously enough, Sen. Feinstein has been referring to the surveillance programs as “these surveillance programs” in her own form letters sent to worried constituents defending them for months.
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