Feinstein: a lesson in privacy and paranoia

So, Senator Diane Feinstein learns a lesson in privacy and paranoia--we can only hope that her feelings are akin to our own, vis-a-vis mass surveillance. Actually, in the behind every cloud principle, I have said that I would welcome the NSA if the public could obtain phone/Internet records of representatives--at times where they are not engaged in discussions pertaining to military matters. But everything else? Why shouldn't we be privy to such discussions? WHAT, in Helsinki's name could be so secret? What? Other than military, what?

Anyway, although I lobbied against Brennan simply because he was from New Jersey--where cronyism and despotism are twin brothers--I feel that there is NO separation of powers issue as is alleged by Senator Feinstein. The reason is that Congress has the right to subpoena members of the executive and the executive, lacking subpoena rights, should be able to spy on the legislature--it's only right.We could, of course, implement total transparency (minus the military thing) but if someone with the mandate of the people failed to implement it, it's not going to happen. I say mandate by default because no one was saying "oooh, Obama's going "glasshouse," let's stop him!"

Normally, I'd be constitutional about this but since everyone feels right about the extended powers that the executive has already bestowed on itself (think executive orders unconstitutional or not), why not rewrite the constitution from the people's perspective--AS IT WAS INTENDED! HELLOOOOO.

Thank you Lord for additional proof of your existence, and may all the "Fein" steins of the world have a glass bottom (sorry, I get carried away by stein contents and malcontents [sorry, again]).

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