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Originally Posted by ddoering
Hypocritical bitch. Its fine with her that regular Americans are spied upon by their government as long as she and her co-conspirators aren't.
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Maybe Dianne will get her come-uppance. Some speculate that the "Panetta document" was given to her by a whistle-blower at the CIA, and she is in a lather to show how bad Jorge Bush was, and how bad he treated the poor innocent ROP adherents captured on the battlefield, killing Americans
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The Democrat-controlled committee has largely kept silent about the tussle with the White House, even as some members have decried what they contend has been the CIA’s refusal to surrender key materials on the agency’s use
under the Bush administration of interrogation methods denounced by the panel chairwoman as “un-American” and “brutal.”
The chairwoman, Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, made no mention of the White House documents during a blistering floor speech Tuesday in which she charged that the
CIA may have undermined the Constitution and violated the law by searching computers used by her staff to compile the study
In question are some 9,400 documents that came to the committee’s attention in 2009, McClatchy has learned.
It’s unclear whether the CIA first gave the committee staff access to the materials before the White House withheld them.
In a related episode in 2010 as described by Feinstein in her speech on Tuesday,
the committee staff discovered that it was no longer able to access hundreds of documents that it previously had been able to read.
Feinstein, however, did not say what happened to the documents
“This was done without the knowledge or approval of committee members or staff and in violation of our written agreements,” she said.
The records being held by the White House are separate from materials generated by an internal CIA review of some 6.2 million pages of operational cables, emails and other top-secret documents made accessible to committee staff
in a secret CIA electronic reading room in Northern Virginia.
Chambliss took to the Senate floor late Wednesday afternoon to launch an apparent counterattack on Feinstein’s speech
“Although people speak as though we know all the pertinent facts surrounding this matter, the truth is, we do not,” said Chambliss, who pointed out that
the committee’s Republican staff didn’t participate in investigating the detention and interrogation program.
“We do not have the actual facts concerning the CIA’s alleged actions or
all of the specific details about the actions by the committee staff regarding the draft of what is now referred to as the Panetta internal document,” Chambliss said. “Both parties have made allegations against one another, and even speculated (on) each other’s actions, but there are still a lot of unanswered questions that must be addressed.”
“No forensics have been run on the CIA computers . . . at the CIA facility to know what actually happened either regarding the alleged CIA search or
the circumstances under which the committee came into possession of the Panetta internal review document.”
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/03/1...ite-house.html
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