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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEugene Robinson: The CIA is out of line
The CIA is out of line
By Eugene Robinson
We now have even more proof that our burgeoning intelligence agencies, which were given unprecedented latitude to wage war against terrorists, are dangerously out of control...Months of stunning revelations about the National Security Agencys massive domestic surveillance, thanks to fugitive whistle-blower Edward Snowden, should have been more than enough. But this week, one of the intelligence communitys staunchest defenders in Congress took to the Senate floor to announce that even she has had it up to here.
Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who heads the Senate intelligence committee, trained her fury on the CIA, which has waged a five-year campaign of bureaucratic guerrilla warfare to keep the committee from doing a crucial job: fully investigating the torture, secret detention and other appalling excesses committed under President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
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President Obama, to his credit, took immediate measures at the beginning of his first term to outlaw torture, secret overseas detention and other outrageous practices sanctioned by Bush and Cheney. But Obama decided to take a forward-looking approach and showed no enthusiasm, frankly, for a comprehensive public accounting of past excesses.
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Feinsteins committee properly decided that the torture and harsh detention had been egregious enough to warrant an expansive and full review. The CIA had already destroyed the only video recordings of its waterboarding sessions, but there were literally millions of pages of cables, e-mails, memos and other documents that the committee wanted to examine...Obamas first CIA director, Leon Panetta, insisted that the committees staff examine the documents after they had been redacted at a secure location in Virginia. Feinstein alleges that the CIA improperly searched the committees computers at this secure site. Files on those computers, she charges, have mysteriously disappeared.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/eugene-robinson-the-cia-is-out-of-line/2014/03/13/f40b10f0-aae7-11e3-adbc-888c8010c799_story.html
By Eugene Robinson
We now have even more proof that our burgeoning intelligence agencies, which were given unprecedented latitude to wage war against terrorists, are dangerously out of control...Months of stunning revelations about the National Security Agencys massive domestic surveillance, thanks to fugitive whistle-blower Edward Snowden, should have been more than enough. But this week, one of the intelligence communitys staunchest defenders in Congress took to the Senate floor to announce that even she has had it up to here.
Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who heads the Senate intelligence committee, trained her fury on the CIA, which has waged a five-year campaign of bureaucratic guerrilla warfare to keep the committee from doing a crucial job: fully investigating the torture, secret detention and other appalling excesses committed under President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
<...>
President Obama, to his credit, took immediate measures at the beginning of his first term to outlaw torture, secret overseas detention and other outrageous practices sanctioned by Bush and Cheney. But Obama decided to take a forward-looking approach and showed no enthusiasm, frankly, for a comprehensive public accounting of past excesses.
<...>
Feinsteins committee properly decided that the torture and harsh detention had been egregious enough to warrant an expansive and full review. The CIA had already destroyed the only video recordings of its waterboarding sessions, but there were literally millions of pages of cables, e-mails, memos and other documents that the committee wanted to examine...Obamas first CIA director, Leon Panetta, insisted that the committees staff examine the documents after they had been redacted at a secure location in Virginia. Feinstein alleges that the CIA improperly searched the committees computers at this secure site. Files on those computers, she charges, have mysteriously disappeared.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/eugene-robinson-the-cia-is-out-of-line/2014/03/13/f40b10f0-aae7-11e3-adbc-888c8010c799_story.html
Charles Pierce: Obama, The CIA, And The Limits Of Conciliation
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024662567
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Eugene Robinson: The CIA is out of line (Original Post)
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(22,845 posts)1. This was posted in GoodReads earlier this morning nt
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(116,464 posts)2. Thanks. It will get more exposure. n/t
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(116,464 posts)3. I gave it a rec. n/t