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September 20, 2014

Ron Wyden Hits CIA Director John Brennan Over 'Culture Of Misinformation'

The CIA's inspector general has confirmed that in the course of a long-running Senate investigation into the CIA's George W. Bush-era torture program, agency employees "improperly accessed" congressional computers. Brennan apologized to members of the Senate Intelligence Committee for that in July.

But at an intelligence conference Thursday, Brennan appeared to backtrack on that apology. He rejected media "narratives" that the CIA had hacked Senate computers.

"I’m not going to take, you know, the allegations about hacking and monitoring and spying and whatever else, no," said Brennan. His resistance seems to rest on a distinction between "hacking" and "improper access."

That set off Wyden -- a longtime CIA critic -- on Twitter.

more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/19/ron-wyden-hits-cia-direct_n_5851256.html

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There are several screenshots of Ron Wyden's tweets. Wyden is like a dog on a bone.

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