Feinstein shifts tone in calling out CIA search

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s outspoken criticism of “CIA interference” in a congressional investigation is in sharp contrast to her defense of an intelligence-gathering community that some say tramples on civil liberties.

Feinstein, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, has fretted that the public was losing confidence “in the dedicated men and women of our intelligence community” because of a string of disclosures that she said often lacked important context. In particular, she has defended the National Security Agency’s collection of massive amounts of phone records, revealed in detail by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden