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Obama knew CIA secretly monitored intelligence committee
A leading US senator has said that President Obama knew of an “unprecedented action” taken by the CIA against the Senate intelligence committee,
The subtle reference in a Tuesday letter from Senator Mark Udall to Obama..... threatens to plunge the White House into a battle between the agency and its Senate overseers.
the CIA had secretly monitored computers used by committee staffers preparing the inquiry report, which is said to be scathing not only about the brutality and ineffectiveness of the agency’s interrogation techniques but deception by the CIA to Congress and policymakers about it.
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Okay what makes this any difference from Watergate? I mean it is tapping, computers here and not telephones or rooms, etc.