US senator Dianne Feinstein's spokesman Philip J. LaVelle denied senator's statement on Saturday insisting her assertion, over US drone attacks into Pakistani soil being operated from bases in Islamabad, was based on previous news reports instead of Intelligence report. Philip J. LaVelle, a spokesman for the senator, said her comment was based solely on previous news reports that Predators were operated from bases near Islamabad. "We strongly object to Sen. Feinstein's remarks being characterized as anything other than a reference" to an article that appeared last March in a US newspaper, LaVelle said and added, Feinstein did not refer to newspaper accounts during the hearing.