Feinstein: No Evidence Terrorists Behind Missing Malaysian
Plane
Sunday, 30 Mar 2014 11:21 AM
By Sandy Fitzgerald
There has been a great deal of
speculation about the reasons for the disappearance of a Malaysia
Airlines flight just over three weeks ago, but there's no evidence of
terrorism, said Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein.
"So far, there's been
none," the California Democrat told CNN's
Candy Crowley on Sunday's "State of the Union"
program. "There's speculation, but there's nothing."
Feinstein noted the situation is
"very hard" because searchers and officials "don't have what
they need to carefully calculate a reasonable area where they plane may be.
This is a very difficult mission."
There are many nations
participating in the search, Feinstein said, "but there is no real method
of calculation that is functioning very well."
Crowley noted that some of the satellite photos coming from the
area where the plane is suspected to have landed are not as clear as other
satellite photos can be. She showed the difference between photos of the ocean
and satellite photos taken of Osama Bin Laden's compound a few years ago, and
asked if more sophisticated satellites could target the suspected crash site.
"I'm not going to go in to
what we do have or what we don't have," Feinstein said. "You have to
understand that American intelligence doesn't gear itself to be ready for plane
crashes."
Meanwhile, Feinstein said that she
is sure that if asked, U.S.
intelligence services would provide whatever data they have. She stressed that Malaysia is in charge of the investigation, and
the United States
can offer its advice, "but you can't demand."
Also on Sunday's show, Feinstein
discussed her ongoing issues with the CIA over allegations it searched a
congressional computer network. She voiced her objections in a dramatic speech
on the Senate floor in early March, and told Crowley Sunday that her words on that day
should stand on the incident.
"I don't know if you've
noticed I have done no press on this, after I did a 40-minute speech,"
Feinstein said. "I believe it is accurate and those words should
stand."
But while Feinstein has asked for
an apology from the CIA and a statement that congressional computer networks
would not be searched, that has not happened.
"The CIA went into walled off Senate computers being used in a bona fide
investigation that's being done on the detention and interrogation of
detainees" said Feinstein. "It isn't the first time, [they did this]
it's the third time."
But despite their differences,
Feinstein said she and the CIA "are on speaking terms" and had a good
hearing about Syria
this past Thursday.
"We are in the process of
beginning a fuller investigation on all the intelligence programs of this
country," said Feinstein. The irony is that the National Security Agency's program of data collection is the
most-overseen program we have, and there thousands of other programs that need
a look at."
President Barack Obama has said he
wants a bill to transfer storage of phone data away from the NSA and leave it
with phone companies, who would need to turn over information only when a
warrant is served, a plan with which Finstein agrees.
"The issue is whether the
telecoms are willing to hold this data," said Feinstein. "When we
talked with them, they were not."
She said it's likely that if the
storage bill is passed, phone companies would "have to be compelled
legislatively in a bill and be provided with liability immunity."
Malaysia
Joseph
Y. Yun is a U.S.
ambassador for Malaysia,
and was the deputy assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of State.
Note: James Keith was a U.S. ambassador for Malaysia,
and the deputy assistant secretary for the U.S.
Department of State.
John
F. Kerry is the secretary at the U.S.
Department of State for the Barack
Obama administration, and married to Teresa
Heinz Kerry.
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Kerry is married to John F. Kerry,
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tank), the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank),
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member for the International Crisis
Group.
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Ibrahim was a board member for the International
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C. Blum is an honorary trustee at the Brookings
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ambassador for Malaysia.
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ambassador for Malaysia.
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Crown is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a member
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member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
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