Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee who lives off her defense contractor-husband's vast wealth, announced that she supports rewriting and expanding the Espionage Act of 1917 to make it easier to prosecute W!kiLeaks and those like them; as always, Feinstein abuses her role as Chair of the "oversight" Committee not to scrutinize and limit the abuses of the intelligence community but to protect them at all costs, as that's where her source of wealth and power lie.
She was responding to yesterday's announcement that Joe Lieberman -- joined by GOP Senators Scott Brown and John Ensign -- introduced a bill intended to make it easier to prosecute Assange. When it comes to authoritarian punishments for those who dare to expose what the US Government does, the mindset is entirely bipartisan.
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