@Leyonhjelm @judgedread A few years after she hired the spy as her driver, she ended up on the judiciary, then intelligence, then chair of intelligence; she insisted in an interview that she must have been Chinese in a past life. Whatever decisions got made regarding China while she was chair of the intelligence committee (January 2009 to January 2015) are probably really interesting.

This is a pretty interesting read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianne_Feinstein#Mass_surveillance_and_citizens%27_privacy

> Following her 2012 vote to extend the Patriot Act and the FISA provisions,[223] and after the 2013 mass surveillance disclosures involving the National Security Agency (NSA), Feinstein promoted and supported measures to continue the information collection programs

> After the 2016 FBI–Apple encryption dispute, Feinstein and Richard Burr sponsored a bill that would likely have criminalized all forms of strong encryption in electronic communication between citizens.