C.I.A. Admits Penetrating Senate Intelligence Computers

[joeybee12]

WASHINGTON — An 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 up an internal accountability board to review the matter. The board will be led by former Senator Evan Bayh, Democrat of Indiana.

The statement gave almost no specifics about the findings of the report, written by David Buckley, the agency’s inspector general.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/01/world/senate-intelligence-commitee-cia-interrogation-report.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=LedeSum&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

[Octafish]

1. At least Brennan apologized.

He could have sent a drone, seeing how he has that authority.

[joeybee12]

3. No wonder everyone in Congress treads lightly in "discussing"

the intelligence community...the CIA, NSA, they''ve all got dirt on them.

[Octafish]

7. Russell Tice said NSA started surveilling Obama in 2004.

Russ Tice, Bush-Era Whistleblower, Claims NSA Ordered Wiretap Of Barack Obama In 2004

The Huffington Post | By Nick Wing
Posted: 06/20/2013

Russ Tice, a former intelligence analyst who in 2005 blew the whistle on what he alleged was massive unconstitutional domestic spying across multiple agencies, claimed Wednesday that the NSA had ordered wiretaps on phones connected to then-Senate candidate Barack Obama in 2004.

Speaking on "The Boiling Frogs Show," Tice claimed the intelligence community had ordered surveillance on a wide range of groups and individuals, including high-ranking military officials, lawmakers and diplomats.

"Here's the big one ... this was in summer of 2004, one of the papers that I held in my hand was to wiretap a bunch of numbers associated with a 40-something-year-old wannabe senator for Illinois," he said. "You wouldn't happen to know where that guy lives right now would you? It's a big white house in Washington, D.C. That's who they went after, and that's the president of the United States now."

Host Sibel Edmonds and Tice both raised concerns that such alleged monitoring of subjects, unbeknownst to them, could provide the intelligence agencies with huge power to blackmail their targets.

"I was worried that the intelligence community now has sway over what is going on," Tice said.

CONTINUED...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/20/russ-tice-nsa-obama_n_3473538.html

Absolutely, joebyee12. The Secret Government has the dirt on the Open Government. And the Government is not a Republic or a Democracy when the representatives are on leashes attached to secret agents.

[joeybee12]

8. One way to figure out if you're being wiretapped, don't pay your phone bill....

Dick Gregory said he hadn't paid his in 30+ years, but Ma Bell never cut him off...whoever was tapping his phone wouldn't let them disconnect service!

[grahamhgreen]

2. Cimininal acts demand criminal prosecutions, don't they? This was

done in an attempt to cover up torture.... An apology aint gonna cut it, is it?

[TwilightGardener]

4. I have not been impressed with Brennan's tenure.

Of course, he follows Petraeus, who was doing hinky shit in Libya and going all-in on his mistress, and Petraeus follows Panetta, who revealed classified info to movie producers. Is there no one competent to place at the CIA?

[unblock]

5. "that's just beyond the - you know, the scope of reason in terms of what we would do".

“As far as the allegations of, you know, CIA hacking into, you know, Senate computers, nothing could be further from the truth. I mean we wouldn’t do that. I mean, that’s just beyond the – you know, the scope of reason in terms of what we would do,” Brennan said on the day of Feinstein’s accusation.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/31/cia-admits-spying-senate-staffers


oops!

[grasswire]

6. Udall ain't so happy with Brennan...

She stopped short of calling for Brennan’s resignation, and said she expected a prompt declassification of Buckley’s findings. But her fellow committee member Mark Udall, a Colorado Democrat, called Brennan’s future into question.

“From the unprecedented hacking of congressional staff computers and continued leaks undermining the Senate intelligence committee’s investigation of the CIA’s detention and interrogation program to his abject failure to acknowledge any wrongdoing by the agency, I have lost confidence in John Brennan,” Udall said.

“I also believe the administration should appoint an independent counsel to look into what I believe could be the violation of multiple provisions of the Constitution as well as federal criminal statutes and executive order 12333,” he added, referring to a Reagan-era presidential directive defining the roles of the intelligence agencies.