Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Von Spakovsky to slip through?

  Published: September 26, 2007, 5:25 pm

  Tags: Hans Von Spakovsky, Dianne Feinstein, Ben Nelson, Federal Election Commission, Fec

  en bloc and in pairs." But Feinstein said committee rules governing FEC nominations allow only for passing nominations that have unanimous consent, which her objection would prevent. After about a half-hour of negotiation, Feinstein and Bennett agreed to pass all of the nominations without recommendation. See that? Republicans sought to

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• Ensign, McConnell Blocking Electronic Disclosure

  Published: September 27, 2007, 11:22 am

  Tags: S 223 110, S 1508 109, Mitch Mcconnell, Electronic Disclosure, Russ Feingold, Dianne Feinstein, John Ensign

  (R-KY) handed Sen. Diane Feinstein last week, which directly targets groups like CREW, Public Citizen, Common Cause, and the League of Women Voters, which attempt to hold Senators accountable for their ethical transgressions: Ensign nevertheless opposed its passage unless it were coupled on the floor with a vote on an unrelated amendment

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• Despite Court Defeat, Craig Vows to Remain in Senate

  Published: October 5, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Despite, Court, Defeat, Craig, Vows, Remain, Senate, Larry Craig, Charles Porter, Minnesota, Andrew Birrell, U S Republican Party, Idaho, Oklahoma, The Idaho Statesman, Barbara Boxer, Capitol Hill, Dianne Feinstein, John Ensign, Minneapolis, Minneapolis St Paul Interna

  Sen. Larry E. Craig (R-Idaho) vowed to serve out the remainder of his term yesterday despite losing his bid to withdraw his guilty plea for disorderly conduct in an airport men's restroom.

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• Dog endorses campaign to oust Dianne Feinstein.

  Published: October 2, 2007, 8:14 pm

  Tags: Dianne Feinstein, Glenn Greenwald, Fisa, Democrats, Debra Bowen, Jerry Brown, Gavin Newsom, Sheila Kuehl, Lynn Woolsey, Barbara Lee, Maxine Waters, Henry Waxman, Crashing The Gate, Leonardo Dicaprio

  Hello. I am a dog. I am running for president. I consider a bite in the trouser the best way to ensure action. I would like to make an endorsement in this race -- I would like to endorse the effort to primary Dianne Feinstein.Ever since the campaign

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• Tell Boxer and Feinstein: No Blackwater West

  Published: October 6, 2007, 7:35 pm

  Tags: Scandals, The Senate, Blackwater, Boxer, Feinstein

  time for Senators Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer join their party in stopping Blackwater from opening a base in San Diego. Courage already delivered over 8,500 petitions opposing Blackwater West to Boxer and Feinstein. Still they are silent. Take Action: sign the new letter to Senator Boxer and Feinstein and give them a call if you can.

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• Leak Severed a Link to Al-Qaeda's Secrets

  Published: October 9, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Leak, Severed, Link, Al Qaeda S, Secrets, Al Qaeda, The White House, Fred Fielding, Michael Leiter, United States, Joel Bagnal, Osama Bin Laden, Ben Venzke, Fox News Network Llc, Intelcenter, The Washington Post Company, Ross Feinstein, Saddam Hussein, Afghanistan, Iraq

  A small private intelligence company that monitors Islamic terrorist groups obtained a new Osama bin Laden video ahead of its official release last month, and around 10 a.m. on Sept. 7, it notified the Bush administration of its secret acquisition. It gave two senior officials access on the condi...

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• U.S. Intelligence Officials Will Probe Leak of Bin Laden Video

  Published: October 10, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: U S, Intelligence, Officials, Will, Probe, Leak, Bin, Laden, Video, Osama Bin Laden, The White House, Al Qaeda, Ross Feinstein, The Washington Post Company, Dana Perino, Fran Townsend, Rita Katz, National Counterterrorism Center, Office Of The Director Of National Intel

  U.S. intelligence officials will investigate allegations that the government improperly leaked a secretly obtained Osama bin Laden video, alerting al-Qaeda to a security gap in the terrorist group's internal communications network that it was able to shut, an intelligence spokesman said yesterday.

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• Hillary Aide: Terrorist Designation Doesn't Authorize War in Iran

  Published: October 15, 2007, 11:54 am

  Tags: Politics, Foreign Affairs Magazine, Hillary Clinton, Iran, Iraq, Lee Feinstein

  security director, Lee Feinstein, said that while "a commander and chief does not take options off the table and neither does Senator Clinton," she also "makes it very very clear that the best approach, the preferred approach right now, is to pursue...diplomacy and economic pressure." Feinstein was asked about whether a

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• Is Dianne Feinstein following in the footsteps of Lieberman?

  Published: October 16, 2007, 5:53 pm

  Tags: Dianne Feinstein, Fisa, Democrats, Debra Bowen, Jerry Brown, Gavin Newsom, Barbara Lee, Maxine Waters, Henry Waxman, Crashing The Gate, Leonardo Dicaprio

  Is Dianne Feinstein following in the footsteps of Joe Lieberman? Voters want to know.For example, Sen. Feinstein recently joined with the Republicans in voting to pass the Kyle/Lieberman amendment to the Department of Defense Budget, which essentiall

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• White House to Give Senate Panel Surveillance Program Documents

  Published: October 17, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: White, House, Give, Senate, Panel, Surveillance, Program, Documents, Michael Mukasey, Patrick Leahy, The White House, John Conyers, United States, Alberto Gonzales, Arlen Specter, Charles Schumer, Dianne Feinstein, Fred Fielding, Jonathan Weisman, Joseph Lieberman, Kit Bo

  The White House agreed yesterday to give Senate intelligence committee members and staff access to internal documents related to its domestic surveillance program in a bid to win Democratic lawmakers' support for the administration's version of an intelligence measure.

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• White House to Give Senate Panel Surveillance Program Documents

  Published: October 17, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: White, House, Give, Senate, Panel, Surveillance, Program, Documents, Michael Mukasey, Patrick Leahy, The White House, John Conyers, United States, Alberto Gonzales, Arlen Specter, Charles Schumer, Dianne Feinstein, Fred Fielding, Jonathan Weisman, Joseph Lieberman, Kit Bo

  The White House agreed yesterday to give Senate intelligence committee members and staff access to internal documents related to its domestic surveillance program in a bid to win Democratic lawmakers' support for the administration's version of an intelligence measure.

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• Next Stop: Nirvana

  Published: October 18, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Next, Stop, Nirvana, Michael Mukasey, Patrick Leahy, U S Department Of Justice, Dalai Lama, George W Bush, Charles Schumer, Dianne Feinstein, U S Senate Committee On The Judiciary, Arlen Specter, Ben Cardin, Capitol Hill, Herb Kohl, Jeff Sessions, John Cornyn, Joseph Lieb

  The Senate Judiciary Committee was meeting yesterday to hear from attorney general nominee Michael Mukasey, but Chairman Pat Leahy's thoughts kept drifting to the mountains of Tibet.

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• PUAD -- Ponies United Against Dianne Feinstein.

  Published: October 23, 2007, 4:03 pm

  Tags: Dianne Feinstein, Fisa, Democrats, Debra Bowen, Jerry Brown, Gavin Newsom, Barbara Lee, Maxine Waters, Henry Waxman, Crashing The Gate, Linda Sanchez, Ponies

  The thundering herd of ponies, pooties, and kossacks and the rest of our brothers and sisters in the netroots are passing Dianne Feinstein by. She is a relic of another time in California politics -- a time when California was solidly red and we were

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• Senate approves Southwick

  Published: October 24, 2007, 1:27 pm

  Tags: Diane Feinstein, Judges

  the worst offender is Dianne Feinstein. She cast the deciding vote to get the nomination out of committee in the first place.Three Democrats, Carper (DE), Inouye (HI) and Salazar (CO), voted yes on cloture, then against the actual nomination. Because, you know, they probably respect the process, blah, blah, blah. Pathetic.

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• Acquiescing to white supremacy by any means necessary

  Published: October 25, 2007, 12:07 am

  Tags: Barack Obama, Dianne Feinstein, Gop Culture Of Corruption, Hillary, Leslie Southwick, Mississippi, Obama Vs Hillary, Politics, Power Games, Race, Racist Judges, Senate Gop, Senate Judiciary Committee, U S Senate, Embracing Wingnuttia, Homophobia, Nigger, Political Expedie

  own. Today, Dixie Dianne Feinstein played her self-assigned role to assist her neo-confederate colleagues Trent Lott and Thad Cochran in preserving white supremacy by any means necessary as they pushed through the nomination of their judicial minion, former Mississippi Court of Appeals Judge Leslie Southwick, for a lifetime position on the

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