To: PROLIFE who wrote (93457 ) 4/11/2007 8:11:57 AM From: JeffA Respond to of 173976 Even salon.com wants lil old Diane investigated. Although we know the Dems don't THINK the law applies to them, I think this time they may find out different.Do you love the way Dianne Feinstein sat as head of the Senate military appropriations committee and directed billions of dollars to her husband's companies? She makes Cheney and Halliburton look like pikers. You should check out the Pulitzer-quality exposé written by Peter Byrne in, of all places, the San Jose Metro, a left-wing liberal smut rag. Pax, BD Thank you for forwarding this riveting article. As I have repeatedly said, I am a fan of Senator Feinstein and have contributed small sums to her campaigns. My interest in her began in 1978 with her cool poise under pressure when, as president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, she had to announce to the horrified press corps that Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk had been assassinated in their offices by a disgruntled former supervisor. Feinstein's long-term conduct as mayor and senator remains for me the closest approximation we have had yet to that of an ideal woman president -- sober, centered, knowledgeable, deliberative, dignified and knife-edge shrewd. While this exposé, metroactive.com , if accurate, does raise disturbing questions about possible impropriety in Feinstein's committee work, I'm not sure I see a smoking gun. The article is superb, however, in the way that it chronicles the sickening interconnections of government business with big corporations in the United Stats and abroad. Like many other Democrats, I've been dismayed by the glaring contradiction between populist liberal ideology and the actual behavior of liberal politicians and journalists, who too often kowtow to power and nakedly pursue their own self-interest.