DIANE FEINSTEIN (D-CA) LEAVES THE SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE WITH NOTHING TO SHOW FOR HER TENURE AS NOTHING GAINED BUT LOSSES IN NATIONAL SECURITY FROM THE DEMOCRAT SENATOR- AS ISIS TAKES OVER HARD FOUGHT AND GAINS IN IRAQ BY AMERICAN SOLDIERS–AS THE RUBBER STAMP BISCUIT DEMOCRAT BECOMES THAT FOR THE POTUS BHO–TO BE REPLACED BY MAJORITY GOP RICHARD M. BURR (R-NC)

As head of the Senate Intelligence Committee since 2009, Sen. Dianne Feinstein has spent hundreds of hours in secret briefings and seen thousands of pictures from battlefields in Syria, Iraq and Yemen. She keeps two images with her.

One shows a little girl wearing a gingham dress, white tights and black Mary Janes — but the girl's head is gone. Another is of a teenage boy, duct tape over his mouth, eyes bulging out, being forced to hold two severed heads.

"To me, it's what we are up against," Feinstein said in an interview. "It is a testament to pure evil."

The senior senator from California has spent more than 14 years on the Senate's most secretive committee, and through much of that time, she has defended the country's intelligence establishment.

'Anybody who reads this is going to never let this happen again.' - Sen. Dianne Feinstein on a report about the CIA's use during the George W. Bush years of harsh interrogation tactics

She insisted that the National Security Agency was right to secretly collect data on huge numbers of telephone calls made by Americans. And she backed the CIA's covert use of Predator drones to conduct targeted killings in half a dozen nations.

But as she prepares to turn over the committee's gavel next month to Sen. Richard M. Burr (R-N.C.), Feinstein's tenure as chairwoman is closing amid an acrimonious fight over a project that pits her against the CIA. Her staff has completed a 6,000-page report evaluating and criticizing the agency's use during the George W. Bush years of harsh interrogation tactics, which President Obama and others have labeled as torture.

Since April, Feinstein has been fighting with the CIA and the White House to make public as much as possible of the report's 480-page executive summary.

In recent days, Feinstein and administration officials have resolved the final debates over how much will be blacked out of the public version of the report. Then on Friday, Secretary of State John F. Kerry, acting on behalf of the administration, called Feinstein to ask her to delay the release. Making the report public now would threaten the security of American personnel overseas, Kerry told her.

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