CIA Chief Admits Spying On Senate Committee
According to a declassified CIA inspector general’s report, CIA officers improperly accessed Senate computers, read the emails of Senate staff, and exhibited a “lack of candor” when interviewed by agency investigators. The document, released Thursday by the CIA, is a summary of an internal CIA investigation — which prompted CIA Director John Brennan to abandon his defiant posture in the matter and apologize to Senate Intelligence Committee leaders.
Brennan also has convened an accountability board that will investigate the conduct of the CIA officers and discipline them, if need be.
Oh, great; the CIA is going to investigate itself.
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John Tarter July 31st, 2014 at 17:39
And of course the Holder Justice Dept will not investigate or prosecute Obama administration wrongdoers. Too busy inserting themselves in local matters like NYC illegal cigarette selling incidents.
arc99 July 31st, 2014 at 17:52
It is not the job of the Justice Dept to cater to delusional right wing conspiracy theories. If there is a possibility that crimes were committed, there will be an investigation.
The local NYC matter which the DOJ is investigating, concerns the death of the man while in police custody, and possible civil rights violations. Civil rights violations are not a local matter, they are a federal matter.
But don’t let facts get in your way. Obama-haters never do. So why start now?
John Tarter July 31st, 2014 at 20:07
Possibility that crimes were committed? The only way this wasn’t a crime is if it was authorized by the Justice Department. If this is true then things are worse than I thought. At the minimum the CIA chief should resign for this.unprecedented action.
Obewon August 1st, 2014 at 13:39
This occurred in 2009 under CIA Dir General Michael V. Hayden, USAF (Ret.) or acting CIA Dir Morreti.
In 2013 CIA Dir Brennan was successfully confirmed as CIA director after being POTUS Obama’s top counterterrorism advisor.
mea_mark July 31st, 2014 at 18:27
That has nothing to do with the article, don’t hijack the thread.
arc99 July 31st, 2014 at 17:52
It is not the job of the Justice Dept to cater to delusional right wing conspiracy theories. If there is a possibility that crimes were committed, there will be an investigation.
The local NYC matter which the DOJ is investigating, concerns the death of the man while in police custody, and possible civil rights violations. Civil rights violations are not a local matter, they are a federal matter.
But don’t let facts get in your way. Obama-haters never do. So why start now?
John Tarter July 31st, 2014 at 20:07
Possibility that crimes were committed? The only way this wasn’t a crime is if it was authorized by the Justice Department. If this is true then things are worse than I thought. At the minimum the CIA chief should resign for this.unprecedented action.
Obewon August 1st, 2014 at 13:39
This occurred in 2009 under GWB’s CIA Dir General Michael V. Hayden, USAF (Ret.) May 30, 2006 to February 12, 2009. Or CIA director Panetta Dir from February 13, 2009 to July 1, 2011.
On March 8, 2013 CIA Dir Brennan began as CIA director after serving as POTUS Obama’s top counterterrorism advisor restarting the search to find bin Laden “Geronimo EKIA”-May 3, 2011.
mea_mark July 31st, 2014 at 18:27
That has nothing to do with the article, don’t hijack the thread.
Obewon July 31st, 2014 at 18:41
The CIA was correct in schooling the GWB / Cheney admin that their Torture was as unconstitutionally illegal at GTMO, as it was anywhere else on U.S. soil, bases, or aboard any U.S. Military vessel anywhere on Earth. Exactly as the C. J. Robert’s SCOTUS ruled!
‘The CIA penetration occurred after the aides got ahold of documents that the CIA claimed were internal, but which showed that some CIA officials shared misgivings about the Cheney Admins treatment of Al Qaeda detainees!’ -“that some CIA employees acted in a manner inconsistent with the common understanding reached between” the committee and the CIA in 2009 regarding access to a shared classified computer network.” Jeb Bush / Cheney until 2016~
Obewon July 31st, 2014 at 18:41
The CIA was correct in schooling the GWB / Cheney admin that their Torture was as unconstitutionally illegal at GTMO, as it was anywhere else on U.S. soil, bases, or aboard any U.S. Military vessel anywhere on Earth. Exactly as the C. J. Robert’s SCOTUS ruled!
‘The CIA penetration occurred after the aides got ahold of documents that the CIA claimed were internal, but which showed that some CIA officials shared misgivings about the Cheney Admins treatment of Al Qaeda detainees!’ -“that some CIA employees acted in a manner inconsistent with the common understanding reached between” the committee and the CIA in 2009 regarding access to a shared classified computer network.” Jeb Bush / Cheney until 2016~