CIA Spies and Lies: CIA spied on senate investigators examining agency torture
Source: privacysos.org
CIA confirms CIA spied on senate investigators examining CIA torture programs
In March 2014, McClatchy newspaper published a bombshell story revealing that the CIA spied on Senate Select Intelligence Committee investigators looking into CIA torture. During negotiations about the preparation of the committee’s long-awaited report on CIA torture programs, the spy agency had told investigators they could only view CIA documents on CIA computers in a CIA controlled facility. Senator Dianne Feinstein, the chairman of the senate committee, agreed on the condition that the CIA promise not to monitor investigators’ activities.
The CIA promised it wouldn’t spy on the senate. Then it spied on the senate. Feinstein discovered the spying when CIA Director John Brennan privately confronted her, alleging that her investigators were in the possession of documents they shouldn’t have had access to. He showed his hand. Feinstein was outraged.
After the news of the CIA’s spying on the senate became public, CIA Director John Brennan told NBC news unequivocally that his agency had not spied on the senate.
I never believed the director’s claims. Now McClatchy has broken another story on the scandal, this time reporting that the CIA’s own inspector general disagrees with John Brennan’s assessment. Yes, the IG found, contrary to the director’s claims, the CIA spied on the senate.
CIA employees improperly accessed computers used by the Senate Intelligence Committee to compile a report on the agency’s now defunct detention and interrogation program, an internal CIA investigation has determined.
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CIA director apologizes to Senate leaders
By Ken Dilanian | Associated Press
An internal CIA investigation has found that agency officers improperly accessed Senate computers earlier this year in a dispute over interrogation documents, prompting CIA Director John Brennan to abandon his defiant posture in the matter and apologize to Senate intelligence committee leaders.
Brennan has convened an internal accountability board chaired by former Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Indiana, that will examine whether the CIA officers should be disciplined, said his spokesman, Dean Boyd.
The agency officers searched the computers without permission for information gathered in the course of a Senate investigation into the CIA’s interrogation techniques. The summary of a classified report on post 9/11 detentions and interrogations that accuses the CIA of misconduct is expected to be made public soon.
The CIA inspector general shared his findings with the Justice Department, which has so far declined to pursue criminal charges against the CIA employees, officials said.
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The apology was a turnabout for the CIA director, who until this week had dismissed the notion that the CIA did anything wrong.
Read the full article at: news.yahoo.com
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