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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Sen. Feinstein: CIA searched Intelligence Committee computers


Sen. Feinstein: CIA searched Intelligence Committee computers

The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday publicly accused the CIA of secretly removing documents from computers used by her panel to investigate the agency's controversial interrogation program, saying that the action represented the kind of interference lawmakers had long sought to avoid.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said during a Senate floor speech that she was speaking out "reluctantly" and only after trying to resolve news of the improper search of committee computers "in a discreet and respectful way."

Her comments come amid recent press reports that said the CIA has searched computers intended to be used solely by the panel to in an effort to determine how committee staff members gained access to a draft version of an internal agency review of its controversial interrogation program.

Read more at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/03/11/feinstein-cia-searched-intelligence-committee-computers/

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