DiFi Okayed Staffers to SPIRIT AWAY & SECURE the "Panetta Review"...DEFYING the CIA's Own Counsel! [View all]

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(I've never had a nice word to say about Diane Feinstein but this report by Robert Sheer about what went on is a real ZINGER. Reveals the reason the CIA spied on staffers computers. It was SPITE to get back at DiFi for securing the Panetta Report because she thought they'd destroy it or hide it away from the Senate Investigation. Who Could Have Known she actually has some fight in her for Once!)

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Feinstein v. the CIA: A Moment of Truth
by Robert Scheer

As Feinstein pointed out, “the CIA hired a team of outside contractors—who otherwise would not have had access to these sensitive documents—to read, multiple times, each of the 6.2 million pages of documents produced, before providing them to fully-cleared committee staff conducting the committee’s oversight work. This proved to be a slow and very expensive process.”

It was so slow that the committee’s investigation has only now been completed. Along the way, documents that Senate staffers found interesting would then mysteriously disappear from the system. One such set of disappeared documents, referred to as the “Internal Panetta Review,” is now at the center of the CIA hacking scandal.

The Panetta Review became relevant in June, when the CIA offered its critique of the Senate study. But as Feinstein points out, “Some of those important parts that the CIA now disputes in our committee study are clearly acknowledged in the CIA’s own Internal Panetta Review. To say the least, this is puzzling. How can the CIA’s official response to our study stand factually in conflict with its own Internal Review?”

Relations between the Senate committee responsible for oversight of the CIA and the agency were so poor that, as Feinstein states, “after noting the disparity between the official CIA response to the committee study and the Internal Panetta Review, the committee staff securely transported a printed portion of the draft Internal Panetta Review from the committee’s secure room at the CIA-leased facility to the secure committee spaces in the Hart Senate Office Building.

Feinstein defended the committee staff’s spiriting information away from the CIA:”

“As I have detailed, the CIA has previously withheld and destroyed information about its Detention and Interrogation Program. ... There was a need to preserve and protect the Internal Panetta Review in the committee’s own secure spaces.”

The response of the CIA was to hack the computers that Senate staffers had been using at the CIA off-site location, and the agency’s acting general counsel filed a crimes report with the Department of Justice against the Senate committee’s staff.

That was too much for Feinstein, who outed the CIA’s counsel:

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A MUST READ...Robert Sheer makes SENSE OUT OF this Very Complicated Event:

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/03/13-4