Isn’t the Sen. Dianne Feinstein

featured in your editorial about charges that the CIA tampered with a congressional investigation the same one who so stridently and passionately defended the National Security Agency’s mass collection of public phone records (“In conflict with Congress, CIA has a lot of explaining to do,” Our view)?

Could it be that as long as the Senate Intelligence Committee, which she chairs, isn’t the target of spying by another security agency, in this case the CIA, it’s OK for the government to spy on the citizens of this country for whatever reason it deems appropriate? This seems like rank hypocrisy.

Edward Lumas

Grand Rapids, Mich.