Did Dianne Feinstein’s senior moment put American solidiers in danger?
Sources have forwarded this Report news of a serious gaffe by Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein. It proves she apparently has no business chairing the Senate Intelligence Committee. This serious embarrassment was virtually smothered by American media outlets.
The CIA and The Pentagon refused to comment on this matter when questioned by The UK’s Daily Telegraph. In a breathtaking example of incompetence Feinstein publicly revealed a military secret during an open Committee hearing last Friday.
In what must have been a “senior moment” the new Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, confirmed that American unmanned drone spy planes are being launched from tribal areas in Pakistan.
At one point while in a cross examination of Dennis Blair Director of National Intelligence, Feinstein commented, “I don’t know whether you’d care to comment on this but [I] also noticed that Mr. Holbrooke in Pakistan ran into considerable concern about the use of the Predator strikes in the FATA area of Pakistan.”
“And yet, as I understand it, these are flown out of a Pakistani base.” Feinstein added.
Feinstein’s revelation contradicts Washington’s consistent denials that the drones we have been bombing Pakistani tribal areas with are being launched from a Pakistani air base.
Missiles from these drones have killed numerous terrorists including top al-Qaeda leaders and a number of Pakistani civilians.
That these strikes were originating in Pakistan under secret agreements between Washington and Islamabad has long been rumored. Until now no hard evidence of these agreements existed and plausible deniability could be maintained by both governments.
Democrat Feinstein’s loose lips have caused a serious problem between America and Pakistan, a country we need if we are ever to win in Afghanistan and capture Bin Ladin. This statement may have compromised major intelligence operations throughout the region, but our media won’t report it.