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Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)
Sat Dec 20, 2014, 01:35 PM Dec 2014

CIA unlikely to punish staff over Senate computer search: NYT

Kinda like the Mafia investigating organized crime and recommending that hit men not be punished.


http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/20/us-usa-cia-senate-idUSKBN0JY0HM20141220

A panel investigating the CIA's search of a computer network used by U.S. Senate staff will not recommend disciplining the agency officials involved in the incident, according to the New York Times.

CIA officials searched the Senate computers in late 2013 as the committee finalized its report on the agency's handling of detainees. Staffers concluded in a report released Dec. 9 that the agency misled the White House and the public about its tactics and acted more brutally and pervasively than previously acknowledged.

Five CIA officials involved in the computer search have already been cited by the agency's inspector general for the improper searches, but have defended their actions as lawful and at times ordered by CIA director John Brennan, the Times said.

The CIA review panel was appointed by Brennan and consists of three CIA officers and two people from outside the agency -- former Democratic Senator Evan Bayh and President Barack Obama's former White House lawyer Robert Bauer, according to the paper

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