Dianne Feinstein

Dianne Feinstein    (politician, deep state actor?)
Born	Dianne Emiel Goldman June 22, 1933 San Francisco, California, U.S.
Died	September 29, 2023 (Age 90)
Nationality	US
Alma mater	Stanford University
Religion	Judaism
Parents	• Leon Goldman • Betty Rosenburg
Children	Katherine Feinstein
Spouse	• Jack Berman • Bertram Feinstein • Richard C. Blum
Member of	Aspen/Strategy Group, Council on Foreign Relations/Members, Trilateral Commission
Party	Democratic
US deep state operative. Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee  International Narcotics Control Caucus/Chair In office January 20, 2021 - September 29, 2023  United States Senator from California In office November 4, 1992 - September 29, 2023 Serving with Barbara Boxer  Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee In office January 3, 2009 - January 3, 2015  Chair of the Senate Narcotics Caucus In office January 3, 2009 - January 3, 2015 Preceded by Joe Biden Succeeded by Charles Grassley  Chair of the Senate Rules Committee In office January 3, 2007 - January 3, 2009 Succeeded by Charles Schumer  Mayor of San Francisco  In office December 4, 1978 - January 8, 1988

Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein was an US deep state actress, a US senator from California from 1992 until her death in 2023. Closely tied to the military-industrial complex, she had a talent for personal enrichment and was termed "a woman whose love of power and contempt for the US constitution knows no bounds," benefiting financially immensely in the process. She attended the 1991 Bilderberg meeting and was part of the Trilateral Commission.

Career start

Feinstein was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1969. During her tenure on the Board of Supervisors, she unsuccessfully ran for mayor of San Francisco twice. Feinstein was elected president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1978.

She was elevated to mayor after Dan White murdered Mayor George Moscone and fellow Supervisor Harvey Milk on November 27, 1978.

On January 20, 1980, her third marriage was to the billionaire financier Richard C. Blum. Blum and Feinstein were key players in the San Francisco Democratic Party political machine. The marriage created a family economic and political alliance that in a little over a decade made them to become the top power couple in the state of California with a place on the national and world stages. Blum generously financed Feinstein's campaigns. Both Blum and Feinstein were members of the Council on Foreign Relations. Blum was trustee of and part of the power structure of the Brookings Institute.

She was a member of the Trilateral Commission in 1988.

Feinstein made an unsuccessful bid for governor of California in 1990. She won the Democratic nomination, but lost the general election to U.S. Senator Pete Wilson, who resigned from the Senate to assume the governorship. The Feinstein failed campaign failed to disclose a series of bank loans arranged by Blum that amounted to at least $2.9 million. Her campaign was fined a total of $190,000 by California’s state watchdog agency, the largest such cash settlement in state history, for an "outrageous case of gross negligence: .

Senator

Feinstein ran for U.S. Senate in a 1992 special election to complete Senator Pete Wilson's unexpired term after Wilson became Governor of California. She sat in the Senate until her death in 2023.

Feinstein's personal enrichment from her political postings were long commented on. The Los Angeles Times wrote after observing only her actions for only a short time in office:

A review of the senator’s first two years in office found that Feinstein supported several positions that benefited Blum, his wealthy clients and their investments. She was a vocal proponent of increased trade with China while Blum’s firm was planning a major investment there. She also voted for appropriations bills that provided more than $100 million a year in federal funds to three companies in which her husband is a substantial investor."

She and her husband profited greatly from their connections to government contracts and insider deals. For example, Blum received a contract to oversee the sale of post offices in California, despite an obvious conflict of interest.

MICC advocacy

Feinstein also made a name for herself as an advocate for the military-industrial complex. As chairperson of the Senate’s Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee from 2001-2007, Feinstein supervised and supported the appropriation of over $1.5 billion for two military contractors, URS Corporation and Perini Corporation, both companies that Blum had a controlling interest in. Blum later sold URS for a reported personal profit of $57 million. When Feinstein’s actions were exposed in early 2007, she abruptly quit her post on this subcommittee.

She was a staunch supporter of the F-35 fighter jet program, despite its high cost and questionable effectiveness. She was also a vocal supporter of the 2003 Iraq War and voted for the resolution that authorized the invasion, and for the Patriot Act. She consistently voted to increase military spending and to fund controversial programs like drone strikes and surveillance.

Spied upon by CIA

In a March 2014 Senate speech when Chair of the Intelligence Committee, Feinstein said the CIA had obstructed the committee's investigation of the agency's torture of post-9/11 "terrorism detainees", one of the few times the committee had actually probed into unsavory practices.

CIA director John Brennan, a senior agency official when the "rendition, detention and interrogation" program was established, immediately denied that his officials had spied on their overseers.

In August 2014 Brennan issued an apology to leaders of the US Senate intelligence committee, reversing months of public denials, thus in effect closing the case. Asked if Brennan had or would offer his resignation, a CIA spokesman replied: "No."

The CIA acknowledged that agency staff had improperly monitored the computers of committee staff members, who were using a network the agency had set up, called RDINet. Among other measures, the agency officials conducted a keyword search of all and and a spying on their emails. It is not known whether further snooping on the oversight committee members was committed.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1991	6 June 1991	9 June 1991	Germany Baden-Baden Steigenberger Hotel Badischer Hof	The 39th Bilderberg, 114 guests
WEF/Annual Meeting/2007	24 January 2007	28 January 2007	Switzerland	Only the 449 public figures listed of ~2200 participants

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