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jalan48

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12. I can't go that far. He was head of the CIA when it spied on a Senate panel investigating the
Thu Aug 16, 2018, 12:36 PM
Aug 2018

torture programs that took place under the the Bush/Cheney Administration.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/01/world/senate-intelligence-commitee-cia-interrogation-report.html

"Brennan was responding to accusations from Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and others that the CIA had secretly removed documents from committee computers and attempted to intimidate investigators by requesting an FBI inquiry of their conduct. Feinstein described the conflict as a “defining moment” for congressional oversight of spy agencies and cited concerns that the CIA had “violated the separation-of-powers principles embodied in the United States Constitution.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/01/world/senate-intelligence-commitee-cia-interrogation-report.html



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