The CIA Just Admitted It Spied On Senate Computers — Senator Calls For Director's Resignation

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The CIA Just Admitted It Spied On Senate Computers — Senator Calls For Director's Resignation

by Brett LoGiurato at Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/cia-spied-senate-computers-torture-investigation-2014-7

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CIA Director John Brennan apologized to Senate Intelligence Committee leaders on Thursday for the CIA improperly accessing a stand-alone computer network established for the committee as part of an investigation into the George W. Bush-era detention and interrogation programs. The extraordinary apology led at least one senator to call for his resignation.

The apology from Brennan came after months of public denials from the intelligence agency and ahead of the public release of an Inspector General's report that found the CIA conducted improper searches of Senate computers. Brennan was briefed that the report would document the searches prior to his apology.

"Director Brennan was briefed on the CIA OIG’s findings, which include a judgment that some CIA employees acted in a manner inconsistent with the common understanding reached between SSCI [Senate Select Committee on Intelligence] and the CIA in 2009 regarding access to [the network]," CIA spokesman Dean Boyd said in a statement. "The Director subsequently informed the SSCI Chairman and Vice Chairman of the findings and apologized to them for such actions by CIA officers as described in the OIG report."

Boyd said Brennan would commission an "accountability board" to "correct any shortcomings." The board will be chaired by former Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh.


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[Logical]

1. Kick! A lot of people here ignoring this! nt

[arcane1]

2. Resignation? How about incarceration?

[Lochloosa]

3. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[Scuba]

4. +1,000

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

5. K & R nt

[bvar22]

6. Boyd said Brennan would commission an "accountability board" to "correct any shortcomings."

The board will be chaired by former Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh.


Oh Yeah.
THAT will fix everything.

[TheKentuckian]

10. Prepare the brooms, lift the carpet! Time for Operation: Sweep It Under the Rug.

Starring do nothing Turd Way spoke spokesmodel extraordinaire and lying ass friend to the MIC, Evan "the apple falls lightyears from the tree" Bayh.

[Scuba]

7. The CIA is clearly out of control.

[rhett o rick]

8. If people wonder why Pres Obama puts up with Brennan, Gen Clapper and Gen Alexander, might

I suggest that maybe they outrank him ala B613 on Scandal. Just sayin'.

[clarice]

9. A lot of people not interested....but believe me....this is serious shit. nt

[Caretha]

11. I have a faint memory

Of some pretty sinister stuff by this guy. I don't have time to google, my memory involves something to do with spending multi-millions on making some sort of star-wars type of cia headquarters with way too much power and over the top and out of bounds power grabbing.

[spanone]

12. k&r...

[Octafish]

13. Kick for We the People in charge.

If you want to restore justice, democracy, peace, and anything progressive, this is major.

[TBF]

14. I think some of us have been wondering

what the CIA has been up to for quite some time. Whether we'll find out in this lifetime is another matter.

[markpkessinger]

15. Here is a comment I posted to the NY Times' article on this

[font size=3]Mark Kessinger[/font]

If any citizen had illegally hacked his or her way into a government computer, or even a computer of a corporation, that citizen could expect to be prosecuted, and quite aggressively so, by the Feds or the state (as determined by the statute under which the citizen had been charged). Will these CIA hackers be held to the same standard of legal accountability? Of course not.

Government agencies -- ALL of them, even those dealing with matters of intelligence and national security -- must remain accountable to the elected government of the people they serve. The Senate, through its Intelligence Committee, is the body charged with oversight of the CIA; therefore, the very idea that the CIA can, of its own accord and in the midst of a Senate investigation into its own conduct, determine what its overseers are permitted to see is itself anathema to any notion of representative government. While it is true that providing such unfettered access to the Senate Intelligence Committee could result in an incremental increase in the potential for an intelligence breach, the desire, or even the need, to maintain secrecy in the interest of national security must never be permitted to become so paramount that the agency becomes effectively free of oversight. An unaccountable agency is, by definition, a rogue agency.

[kentuck]

16. Excellent point!

Right on!