CIA really out of line this time
Eugene Robinson
5:43 p.m. EDT March 13, 2014
... Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who heads the Senate intelligence committee, trained her fury on the CIA, which has waged a five-year campaign of bureaucratic guerrilla warfare to keep the committee from doing a crucial job: fully investigating the torture, secret detention and other appalling excesses committed under George W. Bush and Dick Cheney ...
This is not just a bunch of rhetoric. It's a very big deal ...
The CIA's current director, John Brennan, flatly denied the agency did anything improper. In an earlier letter to Feinstein, he alleged it was the committee's investigators who acted improperly by somehow obtaining a file the agency never intended to surrender – a kind of detailed index, intended for internal CIA use, highlighting documents that cast the agency in a particularly bad light.
Don't get lost in the "he-said, she-said" minutiae. Step back and take a wider view. A committee of the U.S. Senate, working on your behalf and mine, has been trying for five years to perform its duty of civilian oversight of the intelligence agencies. Despite the CIA's best efforts, the committee has put together a 6,000-page draft report – but the CIA is fighting its release tooth and nail. The top-secret document the CIA seems most determined to hide is not some dossier on al-Qaida, but an index of the agency's own excesses and failures ...
http://www.delawareonline.com/story/opinion/columnists/2014/03/13/cia-really-out-of-line-this-time/6382867/
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