Latest news and comment on the California Democratic senator and head of the Senate intelligence committee
February 2018
Dianne Feinstein loses party backing as progressive Democrats mount pressure
Senate veteran fails to win Democratic endorsement for first time, as challenger Kevin de León calls for more dynamic agenda
January 2018
Senate committee to release transcripts of Donald Trump Jr interview
Source inside Trump campaign reported concerns to FBI, new transcript suggests
February 2017
Graphic novel of the month
The Torture Report by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón – review
A graphic novel based on the real-life investigation into the CIA’s treatment of suspected terrorists makes chastening reading
October 2016
Democrats pressure FBI's James Comey over eleventh-hour Clinton email letter
Congressional heavyweights demand briefing on decision to bring up unspecified new material less than two weeks before election
September 2016
Inside the fight to reveal the CIA's torture secrets
The first part of the inside story of the Senate investigation into torture, the crisis with the CIA it spurred and the man whose life would never be the same
March 2016
Oregon senator threatens to filibuster any attempt to weaken encryption
Ron Wyden, a vocal privacy advocate, said he would ‘use my power’ to block legislation regulating what data tech firms must provide to investigators
Intelligence leaders cite Texas attack before deadline on NSA surveillance
April 2015
California governor tells climate change deniers to wake up
Netanyahu continues attack on Iran nuclear agreement: it's 'a very bad deal'
January 2015
If America wants to make sure it never tortures again, it must choose law over secrecy
Katherine Hawkins
Katherine Hawkins: Memos to Obama aren’t enough when neither politicians, nor the president, nor the courts can stand up to the CIA’s wall of secrecy. Let’s tear down that wall
The law will protect any member of Congress who releases the full torture report. Someone needs to step up
Mike Gravel
Mike Gravel: I took a risk so that Americans knew what our government did in Vietnam. Today’s elected representatives should do the same for Iraq and Afghanistan
Steve Bell on the Senate report on CIA torture – cartoon
Steve Bell
Report released by Senate after four-year, $40m investigation concludes CIA repeatedly lied about brutal techniques in years after 9/11
How America's politicians and activists reacted to Senate's CIA torture report
Leading politicians took to Twitter and other media to express their support for – or opposition to – the landmark report on the United States’ use of torture
CIA torture program: Senate report details abuse of detainees – as it happened
Senate's CIA torture report: everyone has an opinion except the White House
Senate report on CIA torture claims spy agency lied about 'ineffective' program
