Senator Dianne Feinstein has finally responded to former CIA and NSA boss Michael Hayden‘s misogynistic and ridiculous claims that the Senate Intelligence Committee‘s 6,300 page, $40 million research report into the CIA torture program (run, in part, while Hayden was boss) was motivated by her „emotions“ rather than by an objective position. Hayden has also called out the staffers working on the report as sissies (though he‘ll claim he was just saying the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence‘s acronym — SSCI). She brushes off the whole „emotional“ claim by noting quickly that‘s Hayden being „stereotypical“ and „incorrect“ and saying such a thing is „an old male fallback position.“

However, as Marcy Wheeler points out, rather than spending her time addressing silly ad hominem attacks, Feinstein scores a lot more points in basically pointing out that the real motivation for the report was Hayden‘s own lies to Congress: