CIA Spied On Senate Committee Investigating The–CIA
The CIA spied on the Senate Intelligence Committee, the very group charged with overseeing the agency and looking into George W. Bush’s secret interrogation program. (h/t Raw Story)
Asked about the tension between the committee and the spy agency it oversees, [Committee Chair Senator Dianne] Feinstein said, “Our oversight role will prevail.”
The episode is a rare moment of public rancor between the intelligence agencies and Ms. Feinstein’s committee, which has been criticized in some quarters for its muscular defense of many controversial intelligence programs — from the surveillance operations exposed by the former National Security Agency contractor Edward J. Snowden to the Obama administration’s targeted killing program using armed drones.
The origins of the current dispute date back more than a year, when the committee completed its work on a 6,000-page report about the Bush administration’s detention and interrogation program. People who have read the study said it is a withering indictment of the program and details many instances when C.I.A. officials misled Congress, the White House and the public about the value of the agency’s brutal interrogation methods, including waterboarding.
