C.I.A. Employees Face New Inquiry Amid Clashes on Detention Program New York Times (03/05/14) Mazzetti, Mark The CIAs Inspector General (IG) has reportedly launched a probe into allegations that CIA employees improperly monitored the computer networks used by the Senate Intelligence Committee to investigate the CIAs now-defunct terrorist detention and interrogation program. The investigation was confirmed by Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), though the exact details of the IGs probe were provided by anonymous government officials with knowledge of the investigation. The investigation was also mentioned in a letter from Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) to President Obama, which noted that the CIAs unprecedented action against the Intelligence Committee--which was not detailed in the letter--threatens the committees ability to perform oversight of the nations intelligence agencies. The CIAs actions are believed to have taken place after agency officials began to suspect that congressional staff members had accessed CIA documents without proper authorization during the the Intelligence Committees probe of the interrogation and detention program. Among the documents that are believed to have been accessed by congressional staffers was an internal CIA study that was critical of the interrogation and detention program and contradicted testimony given by CIA Director John O. Brennan last summer in response to the Intelligence Committees investigation. That investigation found that the interrogation program produced little in the way of actionable intelligence.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 21:35:06 +0000
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