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font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Veteran Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein said the\u00a0<span class=\"caps\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">CIA<\/span>\u00a0had searched computers used by committee staffers examining\u00a0<span class=\"caps\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">CIA<\/span>\u00a0documents when researching the agency\u2019s counter-terrorism operations and its use of harsh interrogation methods such as simulated drowning or \u201cwaterboarding.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Speaking on the Senate floor, Feinstein condemned how the\u00a0<span class=\"caps\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">CIA<\/span>\u00a0had handled the committee\u2019s investigation into the agency\u2019s detention and interrogation program started under President George W. Bush after the September 11, 2001 attacks. Human rights advocates condemn the interrogation practices as torture.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u201cI have grave concerns that the CIA\u2019s search (of committee computers) may well have violated the separation of powers principles embodied in the Constitution,\u201d said Feinstein, who is normally a strong ally of U.S. intelligence agencies.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">She disclosed that the Justice Department had been asked by two different\u00a0<span class=\"caps\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">CIA<\/span>\u00a0offices to investigate whether committee officials or the agency itself might have violated the law.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Her accusations of CIA-led computer searches were denied by\u00a0<span class=\"caps\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">CIA<\/span>\u00a0Director John Brennan. They brought into the open a simmering row between the committee and the agency that had been brewing for months and disrupted the committee\u2019s work.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">The committee investigation, which resulted in 6,000 pages of findings which remain highly classified, was meant to comprehensively document what the agency did and assess the effectiveness of its methods.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Sources familiar with the findings say they condemn the CIA\u2019s aggressive interrogations and question whether they produced significant intelligence information. The\u00a0<span class=\"caps\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">CIA<\/span>\u00a0has given the committee a classified rebuttal to the report.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Feinstein said that in January, the CIA\u2019s Brennan requested an emergency meeting with her and the committee\u2019s top Republican, Senator Saxby Chambliss.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">She said he informed them that agency personnel, without notifying the committee or seeking its approval, had conducted a \u201csearch\u201d of computers that committee investigators were using to review documents related to the<span class=\"caps\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">CIA<\/span>\u00a0program.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span class=\"caps\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">CIA<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"caps\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">SEARCHES<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">She charged that the search may have violated the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and an executive order that prohibits the\u00a0<span class=\"caps\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">CIA<\/span>\u00a0from conducting domestic searches or surveillance.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Brennan denied any charge of computer hacking. \u201cNothing could be further from the truth. We wouldn\u2019t do that,\u201d he said in a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations think tank.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">He said the agency was not trying to thwart the release of the panel\u2019s report. \u201cWe are not trying at all to prevent its release,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Feinstein has been pushing to make the report\u2019s findings public but infighting with the\u00a0<span class=\"caps\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">CIA<\/span>\u00a0had meant the formal process to declassify the document had not even begun. Feinstein said she hoped declassification could begin before the end of March.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">A key dispute is over how the committee acquired what Feinstein and others describe as the CIA\u2019s own internal review of its interrogation tactics and secret prisons, and its use of \u201crendition,\u201d a practice in which prisoners are transferred between countries without formal judicial process.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Feinstein and committee sources say they had found the review in the computer system the\u00a0<span class=\"caps\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">CIA<\/span>\u00a0set up for their use and at some point their staff printed out a copy and took it to their offices on Capitol Hill.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">In a letter Brennan wrote to Feinstein in January, which was obtained by Reuters, he acknowledged the data had been deposited in the part of the\u00a0<span class=\"caps\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">CIA<\/span>\u00a0computer network to which Senate investigators had access but said he did not know how this happened.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Feinstein said the review mirrored key concerns outlined in her staff\u2019s report and differed sharply from the official\u00a0<span class=\"caps\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">CIA<\/span>\u00a0response to the committee\u2019s investigation.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span class=\"caps\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">INTIMIDATION<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Partly as a result of the committee accessing the internal review, security sources said, the CIA\u2019s acting general counsel sent what is called a \u201ccrimes report\u201d to the Justice Department complaining about the actions of committee staff.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Feinstein condemned this action on Tuesday as an attempt to intimidate committee staff. She bristled at suggestions her staff had gotten information improperly and said the\u00a0<span class=\"caps\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">CIA<\/span>\u00a0itself provided her committee with more than 6.2 million documents.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u201cThe committee clearly did not hack into\u00a0<span class=\"caps\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">CIA<\/span>\u00a0computers to obtain these documents, as has been suggested in the press,\u201d the California Democrat said.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Brennan said he had also asked the CIA\u2019s in-house inspector general to investigate. That led to another \u201ccrimes report\u201d being filed by that office with the Justice Department related to committee complaints that the agency had violated the law by searching the computer system its investigators had used.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Brennan, who took the helm of the\u00a0<span class=\"caps\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">CIA<\/span>\u00a0a year ago, said the agency was eager to relegate the rendition, detention and interrogation program to history.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">The dispute heightened concerns about the effectiveness of congressional oversight of U.S. spy agencies. Concern had already been raised by revelations by fugitive U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden about sweeping electronic surveillance by the National Security Agency.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Brennan vigorously defended the CIA\u2019s commitment to working with Congress. \u201cWe are a far better organization because of congressional oversight,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">(Additional reporting by Susan Cornwell and Will Dunham; Editing by David Storey and Cynthia Osterman)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>) ) ) )————————— REUTERS, 12\/03 00:18 CET smaller_textlarger_text |Share on printShare on emailShare on facebookShare on twitterShare on gmail|More Sharing Services \u00a0A bitter dispute between the\u00a0CIA\u00a0and the U.S. Senate committee that oversees it burst into the open on Tuesday when the committee chairwoman accused the agency of spying on Congress and possibly breaking the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":25092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3982],"tags":[3983],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/ethiopianism.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/dianne-feinstein-cia-spied-on-in.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethiopianism.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25090"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethiopianism.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethiopianism.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethiopianism.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethiopianism.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ethiopianism.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethiopianism.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethiopianism.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethiopianism.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethiopianism.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}