Senate-CIA controversy widens over enhanced interrogation probe

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Senate-CIA controversy widens over enhanced interrogation probe

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The public battle between the Senate Intelligence Committee and the CIA is growing over a confidential report on the spy agency. The committee's top Republican says a special investigator may now have to get involved.

The highly unusual case is now dividing not just the Senate and the CIA but senators themselves, Nancy Cordes reports. Many Republicans didn't want to investigate the CIA in the first place. They didn't have a problem with its enhanced interrogation tactics, and they now feel the Democrats might be making too many uncomfortable details public.

CIA Director John Brennan was on Capitol Hill Wednesday but ignored CBS News' questions about his agency's dispute with Congress... Senate Intelligence Chair Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif...said Brennan informed her earlier this year that CIA agents searched her committee's computer system while the committee was investigating the CIA's Bush-era interrogation program. Feinstein said in her speech Tuesday, "The CIA's search may well have violated the separation of powers principles embodied in the United States Constitution."

Outrage spread Wednesday, with Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif. - who chairs the House Oversight Committee - calling the CIA's actions, if true, "effectively treason." ...not all Republicans shared his view. After meeting with Brennan, Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., the top member on the Intelligence Committee, argued the facts are still murky.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-intelligence-committee-cia-battle-widens-over-computer-search/

[steve2470]

1. "facts are still murky"

aka Chambliss' way of saying we're going to protect the CIA.

[ProSense]

2. Kick! n/t