Feinstein Takes Reins At Intelligence Committee -- San Francisco ChronicleOn her first day at the helm of the Senate Intelligence Committee Thursday, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein vowed that never again would there be "a National Intelligence Estimate that was as bad and wrong as the Iraq NIE was."
"I voted to support the war because of that," Feinstein said, "and I have to live with that vote for the rest of my life. And I don't want it to ever happen again."
While the Democratic senator was leading the confirmation hearing of retired Adm. Dennis Blair as President Obama's nominee for director of intelligence, Obama delivered a major foreign policy statement on the Middle East and South Asia. He also issued sweeping executive orders that reversed key elements of former President George W. Bush's "war on terror" by ordering the closure of the prison at Guantanamo Bay within a year and standardizing rules on interrogation techniques to ban torture and follow the 19 techniques allowed in the Army Field Manual.
Obama also ordered a new commission to review current terrorism cases and determine how to hold and try future suspects.
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