Senator Feinstein isn't the best person to have speak out against this. She is rabidly hated by nearly half of the country, so any complaints she makes are ignored by them.
These complaints need to come from a McCain/Lieberman-type coalition of Senators in order to gain any traction.
Having the sitting chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee speak out is pretty much the ideal person. I don't know if she has more or less credibility based on having been so pro NSA spying in the past.
Ideally you'd get the ranking members of the same committees in both houses of congress to do it; it's a powerful position so it tends to go to more partisan people, and thus each will be hated by approximately half of the voters, but you'll have 2 and 2 each hated by different halves.
You are completely right about that. She was so very much in favor of US being surveilled that her complaint about it happening to her rings hollow.
I had no idea that my previous comment would spark such a negative reaction from the mods. I don't think I've ever seen a -3 on a comment that wasn't obviously a deliberate attempt at trolling.
These complaints need to come from a McCain/Lieberman-type coalition of Senators in order to gain any traction.