CIA Goes Into Senate Computers
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CIA director apologizes to Senate leadersThe director of the CIA, offering a rare apology, has acknowledged an internal probe's findings that CIA employees in the Executive Branch improperly spied on the Legislative Branch by searching Senate computers and reading staffers' emails earlier this year.
According to a declassified CIA inspector general's report, CIA officers improperly accessed Senate computers, read the emails of Senate staff, and exhibited a "lack of candor" when interviewed by agency investigators. The document, released Thursday by the CIA, is a summary of an internal CIA investigation -- which prompted CIA...
From the Center
Investigation Finds CIA Improperly Accessed Senate ComputersCentral Intelligence Agency officers improperly accessed computers used by a Senate committee investigating the agency's interrogation program, an internal agency report has concluded.
The finding bolsters allegations by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.), the Senate Intelligence Committee chairman, who in a speech on the Senate floor in March denounced what she said was a CIA search of Senate computers that may have...
From the Left
C.I.A. Admits Penetrating Senate Intelligence ComputersAn internal investigation by the Central Intelligence Agency has found that its officers improperly penetrated a computer network used by the Senate Intelligence Committee in preparing its report on the C.I.A.'s detention and interrogation program.
In a statement issued Thursday morning, a C.I.A. spokesman said that agency’s inspector general had concluded that C.I.A. officers had acted inappropriately by gaining access to the computers.
The statement said that John O. Brennan, the C.I.A. director, had apologized to the two senior members of the Senate Intelligence Committee and that he would set...
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May 6th, 2024