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CIA Director Brennan Admits He Was Lying: CIA Really Did Spy On Congress

Posted by timothy on from the note-the-passive-voice-and-weasel-words dept.

Bruce66423 (1678196) writes with this story from the Guardian: The director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John Brennan, issued an extraordinary apology to leaders of the US Senate intelligence committee on Thursday, conceding that the agency employees spied on committee staff and reversing months of furious and public denials. Brennan acknowledged that an internal investigation had found agency security personnel transgressed a firewall set up on a CIA network, called RDINet, which allowed Senate committee investigators to review agency documents for their landmark inquiry into CIA torture." (Sen. Diane Feinstein was one of those vocally accusing the CIA of spying on Congress; Sen. Bernie Sanders has raised a similar question about the NSA.)

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  1. Re:When will we... by HornWumpus · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I don't want an apology.

    I want to see the files on congress, the last 10 executive branches and staff, the supreme court down to the clerks and all nationally known reporters.

    Any lawyers readying a FOIA suit?

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  2. Re:When will we... by gstoddart · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Jail isn't going to do any good unless you put the whole agency in jail.

    OK, fine.

    If there is no oversight, and I don't mean a FISA court whose job it is to say everything is rosy, then you can't have an agency like this.

    Having the CIA directly lying to congress about their activities, and actively spying on the people who are supposed to oversee them is something straight out of fiction -- only it's no longer fiction, they're doing anything they please, and no longer accountable to anybody.

    Fuck, hit them up with a RICO suit. Do ANYTHING.

    What next, he'll go into private industry as a security consultant for corporations? Oh, wait ...

    This is bloody scary. Neither Americans nor the rest of the world signed up for a fucking security agency which is no longer under anyone's control except people who feel they can do anything they want.

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  3. This might be the one thing that gets Congress to by raymorris · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Congress didn't much care when the NSA was spying on us peons. Now that Congress-critters are the ones being spied on, I'm thinking they just might do something about it. Thanks for pissing of the right people, CIA.

  4. Unfortunately, Congress will make itself exempt by tekrat · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And Congress *ONLY*.
    Consider the following; Until very recently Congress were the only individuals exempt from insider trading laws. Congress is exempt from TSA searches when boarding a plane, Congress is exempt from *not* being paid during government shutdowns.

    Congress takes care of itself, NOT the people on the United States. Therefore, Congress will pass a law making itself exempt from CIA/NSA spying and the rest of the country be damned.

    Trust me on this one, if there's one thing Congress is consistent about, with 100% bipartisan support, it's about making sure they are elite, untouchable, and completely corrupt.

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  5. Re:When will we... by Libertarian_Geek · · Score: 5, Interesting

    An agency that knows which members of congress are pedophiles and which ones are drug addicts will not be easy to arrest.

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