RE:RE:RE:why This one does...mention the CIA...Almost fell off my chair laughing...she was surprised????
The Head of the Senate Intelligence Committee has stated that the CIA searched the computer network developed for Congress’ use.
However, the head of the panel, Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, also stated that the committee did not infiltrate CIA documents, or hack into CIA computers to extract internal reports on detentions or interrogations.
Feinstein made the comments as she provided an account of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s efforts to oversee the CIA’s interrogation program.
“The CIA just went and searched the committee's computers.” Feinstein said.
Feinstein added that she was not taking the situation lightly, and that the CIA may have acted in violation of the Fourth Amendment, in addition to myriad federal laws. Despite requesting apologies and acknowledgement that the CIA searches were inappropriate, she noted that she had “received neither”.
Now Feinstein labeled the CIA complaint to the Department of Justice as an attempt to intimidate the committee's staff.
“It is critical that the committee and the senate reaffirm our oversight role,” she concluded.
On Thursday last week Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein told reporters that the CIA general counsel’s office was“investigating how her committee investigated allegations of CIA abuse in a Bush-era detention and interrogation program.”
“Two officials familiar with the investigation [say] the senator confirmed the CIA is looking into allegations of wrongdoing, including whether its own officers improperly monitored Senate investigators and possibly accessed their computers,” AP reported.