Senator Feinstein is, again, the principle proponent of the egregiously offensive Computer Information Sharing Act (CISA) that would encourage deep record gathering and sharing within (erstwhile "intelligence") agencies, violating every principle of privacy we citizens hold dear.
Dear Senator Feinstein:
For all your years of service to your Country, I am appalled that you would—yet again—attempt to destroy the United States citizens' right to privacy. Your latest attempt is the overreach called S.2588, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA).
I started my career, in 1958, as a young "security specialist," engaged in Geneva conven-tion violations sanctioned by the U.S. government, so I have seen this game played from the inside. The "information security" apparatus you so carefully nurture has, as is typical for such secrecy bureaucrats, predicted at least 25 of the last ZERO attacks on our country, all in service to their need to expand their Pentagon empires, and engage more contractors with bloated budgets. Their brandishing of the term "intelligence" belies that fact that the word—for them--is evidently aspirational, and seldom describes their results. Does that albatross in Bluffdale, UT ring any bells for you?
Even when you have been accused of self-dealing (FDIC), I supported you. But, this attempt to strip citizens of their privacy so agencies of our government can spy on us—including information that the HIPAA act protects—is a rank and odious violation of every democratic (and Democratic) principle that the Founding Fathers espoused. You would apparently prefer we all live in the movie "Minority Report," where government spying allows police to incarcerate arbitrary citizens on mere speculation.
I can only hope your peers in the Senate are not so eager to sacrifice millions of nameless voters and citizens to the greed of government bureaucracy and their overpaid contractors as you appear to be, and you are once again thwarted in your efforts to destroy citizens' rights to privacy.
(Edited to remove some of my angrier words in the earlier draft. --cao)