Then they lied about it for months, but we are supposed to believe them when they say something. Yup.
Related: Senate Tortures CIA
Oh, I see. It was only in retaliation.
I think you guys are hanging out with Israel too much.
"CIA admits monitoring private Senate computers; Legislators had been reviewing agency’s work" by Mark Mazzetti and Carl Hulse | New York Times August 01, 2014
WASHINGTON — An internal investigation by the CIA has found that its officers improperly penetrated a computer network that the Senate Intelligence Committee used to prepare its damning report on the CIA’s detention and interrogation program.
The report by the agency’s inspector general found that CIA officers created a fake online identity to gain access on more than one occasion to computers used by members of the committee staff, an official with knowledge of the investigation’s findings said.
Did the FBI help?
The CIA officers also tried to cover their movements as they rooted around the system, the official said.
A statement issued Thursday by a CIA spokesman said that John O. Brennan, the agency’s director, had apologized to the two senior senators on the intelligence committee and would set up an internal accountability board to review the issue.
I'm not interested in a crap cover-up commission; however, how about an apology to the American people?
The statement said the board, which will be led by former senator Evan Bayh, an Indiana Democrat, could recommend “potential disciplinary measures” and “steps to address systemic issues.”
The Justice Department has already declined to investigate the matter, so the inspector general report brings a degree of closure to the issue — and vindication for Senator Dianne Feinstein, the Democratic chairwoman of the committee who excoriated the CIA in March when the matter became public.
Meaning we won't be seeing anything of this again.
The CIA statement gave almost no specifics about the findings of the report, written by Inspector General David Buckley.
Officials said there was a tense meeting this week when Brennan briefed the two senators — Feinstein, a California Democrat, and Saxby Chambliss, a Georgia Republican. The officials said Feinstein had confronted Brennan about past public statements on the issue, in which he defended the agency’s actions.
When the CIA’s monitoring of the committee became public in March, Brennan said, “When the facts come out on this, I think a lot of people who are claiming that there has been this tremendous sort of spying and monitoring and hacking will be proved wrong.”
Days earlier, he said that lawmakers were making “spurious allegations about CIA actions that are wholly unsupported by the facts.”
All lies, huh?
On Thursday, Feinstein called Brennan’s apology and decision to set up an accountability board “positive first steps” and said that the inspector general report “corrects the record.” She said that she expected that a version of the report would be declassified but gave no further details.
Committee Democrats have spent more than five years working on a report about the CIA’s detention and interrogation program during the George W. Bush administration, which employed brutal interrogation methods like waterboarding.
Parts of that report, expected to conclude that the interrogation techniques yielded little valuable information and that CIA officials consistently misled the White House and Congress about the efficacy of the techniques, are expected to be released in August.
The current crisis erupted late last year, when CIA officials came to suspect that the committee’s staff — sifting through millions of documents at an agency facility in Northern Virginia — improperly obtained an internal review of the program that the CIA never intended to give to Congress.
In response, CIA security officials penetrated a secure computer server that had been set up to allow the Senate investigators to work on their report without being monitored by the spy agency.
Of course, the NSA still gets everything.
The CIA and lawmakers spent months trading accusations in private until the fight became public in March and Feinstein took to the Senate floor to deliver a blistering speech accusing the agency of infringing on the committee’s role as overseer.
She's only angry when they spy on her. Doesn't really give a damn about the rest of us.
The White House publicly defended Brennan on Thursday, saying he had taken “responsible steps” to address the situation, including suggesting an investigation, accepting its results, and appointing an accountability board. Asked whether the results of the investigation present a credibility issue for Brennan, Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, said, “Not at all.”
OMG!
The White House is either delusional or they don't give a damn!
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I'll go see if I can spy any more articles to post, readers.
