Report: CIA Officers Read Senate Emails
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[Who's in charge of the hen house? Despicable and frightening in a democratic state. Feinstein finally has he smoking gun. *RON*]
BY KEN DILANIAN, AP INTELLIGENCE WRITER, 31 July 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) -- CIA officers improperly accessed Senate computers, read the emails of Senate staff, and exhibited a "lack of candor" when interviewed by agency investigators, according to a declassified CIA inspector general's report.
The document, released Thursday by the CIA, is a summary of an internal CIA investigation that prompted CIA Director John Brennan to abandon his defiant posture in the matter and apologize to Senate Intelligence Committee leaders.
Brennan has convened an internal accountability board chaired by former Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., that will examine whether the CIA officers should be disciplined, said his spokesman, Dean Boyd.
The agency officers searched Senate computers without permission for information gathered in th…
[Who's in charge of the hen house? Despicable and frightening in a democratic state. Feinstein finally has he smoking gun. *RON*]
BY KEN DILANIAN, AP INTELLIGENCE WRITER, 31 July 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) -- CIA officers improperly accessed Senate computers, read the emails of Senate staff, and exhibited a "lack of candor" when interviewed by agency investigators, according to a declassified CIA inspector general's report.
The document, released Thursday by the CIA, is a summary of an internal CIA investigation that prompted CIA Director John Brennan to abandon his defiant posture in the matter and apologize to Senate Intelligence Committee leaders.
Brennan has convened an internal accountability board chaired by former Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., that will examine whether the CIA officers should be disciplined, said his spokesman, Dean Boyd.
The agency officers searched Senate computers without permission for information gathered in th…