Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) on Tuesday bashed the White House for failing to notify Congress before negotiating for the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.
“I strongly believe that we should have been consulted, that the law should have been followed. And I very much regret that that was not the case,” Feinstein told reporters on Capitol Hill.
Democrat @SenFeinstein says flatly WH violated the law by not notifying Congress especially given “bipartisan” concerns about detainees..
— Kelly O’Donnell (@KellyO) June 3, 2014
Feinstein and Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), chair and ranking member of the Intelligence committee, told reporters that the White House should have consulted members of the committee on the prisoner exchange.
.@SenFeinstein & @SaxbyChambliss say the detainees pose threat in future “dismayed” Congress was not told in violation of law
— Kelly O’Donnell (@KellyO) June 3, 2014
.@SenFeinstein & @SaxbyChambliss do not accept that Bergdahl’s health was “In instant danger” “there was time to pick up the phone & call”
— Kelly O’Donnell (@KellyO) June 3, 2014
FEINSTEIN: “…It comes with some surprise and dismay that the transfers went ahead with no consultation, totally not following the law…”
— Vaughn Sterling (@vplus) June 3, 2014
Feinstein and Chambliss both said earlier on Tuesday that White House officials had reached out to apologize for leaving them in the dark on the prisoner swap.
Thanks Feinstein. Your words will be quite useful for the right wing talking points and providing fresh red meat to the “liberal” media. Bravo.
I’ve always said that my Democratic Senator, Ms. Feinstein, was the last of the moderate Republicans in that body.
Pearl-clutching because the CIC didn’t bother to beg for permission from your leak-riddled partisan hack-fest before acting to recover an American POW? I’m okay with that. Question is: Why aren’t you?
But “dismay” over “not following the law” with regard to domestic surveillance of Americans?
“Not so much”.
Diane seems to always be dismayed about something . . . .