The CIA starts pulling Nixon level shenanigans and the general response is ZOMG Feinstein is such a hypocrite? The way this works is: 1) The CIA violated the

The CIA starts pulling Nixon level shenanigans and the general response is ZOMG Feinstein is such a hypocrite? The way this works is: 1) The CIA violated the law under Bush II by torturing, but was allowed to get away with it because, politics. 2) The people in Congress who want to nail them on this spend the next 5-10 years searching through 5 million records while the CIA spends as much time as they can stalling them. 3) They finally hit the mother load in a document that shows the people running the CIA know about these legal issues 5 years ahead of the committee. 4) People in the CIA freak, try to hide the documents, and then try and get to the DOJ ahead of the committee. Because, as soon as the DOJ is involved, the game is over since they either have to plead the 5th or get caught up in Obstruction of Justice charges. This is all separate from the NSA spying stuff, which Feinstein is wrong on. But it's not even hypocritical for her to say "spying is okay, but torture is bad news for Democracy." Given a choice between the two, I'd still rather be spied on for no reason, than tortured for no reason.