CIA feared that documents shared with Senate could lead to exposure of crucial intel sources

[steve2470]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-feared-that-documents-shared-with-senate-could-lead-to-exposure-of-crucial-intel-sources/2014/03/13/ddd23cd4-aae0-11e3-adbc-888c8010c799_story.html

After the CIA provided a massive cache of documents in 2009 to Senate staffers investigating the agency’s detention and interrogation program, the agency realized it might have a problem.

Within those documents, agency employees feared, were details that could lead to the exposure of CIA sources, former U.S intelligence officials said. Among them were top assets who had been recruited while being held at a secret CIA facility on Guantanamo Bay called “Penny Lane,” according to one of the officials.

So great was the concern that the sources’ identity would be disclosed that the CIA withdrew some of the documents from a special facility that had been set up for members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

The episode was an early indication of just how sensitive relations were between the CIA and the Senate staffers tasked with investigating one of the agency’s most controversial programs since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The problems only intensified in January after the CIA notified the panel that it had again searched Senate computers in the belief that staffers had obtained documents beyond the scope of their investigation and that it had launched a security review to determine what had happened.

[The Magistrate]

1. High-Test Barnyard Effluent, Sir

Even if true, I do not give the northward end of a south-bound rat.

[steve2470]

2. I agree

I'm not surprised they came up with this "excuse".

[Jefferson23]

3. Oh please, we need to know and have a right to know...and the top bananas, where

are they now? The gig is up.

[cali]

4. what a contemptible cya piece of shit claim. fuck brennan.

[Autumn]

5. Bull shit, horse shit, pig shit, crap,

CIA diarrhea, that's about what I expect from the CIA, and out of the mouth of Brennan.

[Maedhros]

6. The proper way to address the problem was to meet with the Intelligence Committee

and explain the need to pull back those documents containing the sensitive information. It's the Senate Intelligence Committee - highly unlikely to be a security risk and certainly capable of understanding the need to protect the identity of assets.

The wrong way to address the problem is to violate an express agreement made with the Committee not to break into its computers and surreptitiously delete documents and pretend they weren't there in the first place.

File this under "what else would we expect the CIA to say in order to cover its ass?"

[Ichingcarpenter]

7. No wonder.'it was not a matter for the White House to “wade into at this point”.

that's too much bull shit for even hip waders.

[bemildred]

8. Their fears are not relevant. nt

[woo me with science]

11. +1 This is an admission of guilt and nothing more.

[Octafish]

9. That explains why CIA deleted those documents from Senate files.

What a coincidence, those just happened to be the same ones the Senate staffers wanted to investigate further.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

10. We had concerns....so we decided to piss all over the separation of powers and break the law.

Sounds reasonable to me.

[Rex]

12. Oh sure sure...the tried and true method of crying 'national security'.

SO...to recap...CIA sets up a place for the committee to look at source documents, THEREFOR one can only conclude that they mistakenly included information that could compromise national security. WHICH LEADS TO AN EVEN BIGGER QUESTION - why are we letting such INCOMPETENT people be in charge of such sensitive information and such life and death agencies IE the CIA?

I'm SORRY...but the Valerie Plame outing proved that the CIA is NOT worried about exposing active agents to danger.

I'll wait...

[librechik]

13. lol, right. That's why they did it *coughPlamecough* n/t

[Oilwellian]

14. Were they equally as concerned about ...

sharing this sensitive material with outside contractors?

[bobthedrummer]

15. US Torture Documents from The National Security Archive/Torturing Democracy (many obtained by FOIA

requests from The Federation of American Scientists)
http://www.torturingdemocracy.org/documents

I see names of unindicted war criminals, torturers and traitors not "intelligence sources"-a total betrayal of we, the people and our democracy.

[myrna minx]

16. Oh my, I actually laughed out loud when I read that headline.

[Solly Mack]

17. Snort

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

18. "Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice;

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. Lord Acton

[steve2470]

19. kick for pm crowd nt

[bobthedrummer]

20. kick n/t

[bobthedrummer]

21. * n/t