The Brilliant Senator Feinstein

Posted date: 2010-02-03

Posted By : Marc


Robert Farley over at Lawyers, Guns & Money has an article that points to today's New York Times, Senators Warned of Terror Attack on U.S. by July:

At Tuesday’s hearing, Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California and chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, asked Mr. Blair to assess the possibility of an attempted attack in the United States in the next three to six months.

He replied, “The priority is certain, I would say” — a response that was reaffirmed by the top officials of the C.I.A. and the F.B.I.
I'm sure this was a probing inquiry by Sen. Feinstein. I wonder how often Sen. Feinstein pompously asks questions for which there is ONLY ONE ANSWER. Does her staff not even bother to consider what answers you might get when asked to "assess the possibility of an attempted attack in the United States in the next three to six months." Even I would not consider answering that with the truth. Think about it like this. Assume your agency found a great decline in hatred towards or even interest in the United States government and people. How long do you think you would remain the Director of National Intelligence if you stated that a major attack in the next three to six months was highly unlikely.

If there's one thing that the American public has learned from watching the news (or, rather, right-wing opinion dressed up as news), it is that we are within one Friedman Unit of the next major terrorist attack. Always. Ad infinitum.

Author: G. Chavez Date: 2010-02-03

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What's a Friedman unit? Measure of distance, time, political hay?
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From Urban Dictionary:

A period of time equal to six-months, named in honor of New York Times columnist Tom Friedman for his repeated pronouncements that conditions in Iraq will improve "in six months."

It became a running joke among bloggers.
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Here's a new slogan for Feinstein's next campaign.
Senator Feinstein: Only One Answer.

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