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In reply to the discussion: The CIA obtained a confidential email to Congress [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)64. McClatchy Team deserves a Pulitzer and thanks.
The New York Times and the rest of Corporate McPravda, not so much.
CIA improperly accessed Senate computers, agency finds
By Jonathan S. Landay and Ali Watkins
McClatchy Washington BureauJuly 31, 2014
EXCERPT...
In January, Brennan confronted Feinstein behind closed doors over a committee request for top-secret material that the CIA determined the panel staff already had obtained. He contended that her staff may have improperly accessed the material.
In her speech in March, Feinstein asserted that her staff found the material in the data base and that the CIA had discovered the staff had it by monitoring their computers in violation of the user agreement.
Recognizing the importance of this matter and the need to resolve it in a way that preserved the crucial equities of both branches, Director Brennan asked the CIA Office of Inspector General to examine the actions of CIA personnel, Boyd said.
The committee report, which is being reviewed at the White House following a declassification process at the CIA, found that the use of the harsh interrogation techniques produced little valuable intelligence, according to classified conclusions obtained by McClatchy.
It also determined that the agency misled the Bush administration, the Congress and the public on its results, according to the conclusions.
Former Bush administration officials, the CIA and those who oversaw the program, which ran from 2001 until 2006, have vigorously disputed those findings.
SOURCE: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/07/31/234997/cia-staffers-accessed-senate.html
Gosh. If anything, Corporate McPravda's owners and operators are lucky they aren't in prison for their roles in lying America into war, covering up torture and spherical domestic spying by the secret government.
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Lord Acton said that in theological disputes that included Papal infallibility
SharonAnn
Jul 2014
#32
Absolutely, no Whistle Blower can trust Congress anymore. Snowden probably knew this
sabrina 1
Jul 2014
#28
And the NSA keeps a record of all that's transpired. Such messes they create when they
glowing
Jul 2014
#8
Truman criticized CIA after the assassination of President Kennedy and Dulles asked for retraction.
Octafish
Jul 2014
#16
Thanks, MinM! Most people have no idea about McCloy's ties to Big Oil and the NAZIs.
Octafish
Jul 2014
#60
Is this another whistleblower leaking this story? How is this story getting out to the MSM?
riderinthestorm
Jul 2014
#17
Except those who step into the light publicly like Snowden, Binney, Drake, Ellsburg etc
riderinthestorm
Jul 2014
#21
Past time to throw out this toxic sludge some like to cutely label as bathwater.
TheKentuckian
Jul 2014
#26
No one should be immune to investigations, it does not matter who or what they works
Thinkingabout
Jul 2014
#52
Nice judge that presided over Blagojevich trial also sits on FISA court and invests in Verizon.
Octafish
Jul 2014
#63