The CIA Allegedly Spied on a Senate Committee Investigating the CIA

According to McClatchy DC, the Justice Department is opening an investigation into allegations that the Central Intelligence Agency spied on a Senate Intelligence Committee group investigating the CIA’s detention programs.

The upcoming 6,300-page report, which has taken four years to produce, is expected to harshly criticize the CIA’s use of rendition and waterboarding, faulting the agency for withholding information about the tactics from the Bush administration, and questioning whether tactics many consider torture even provided the information the CIA claims it did.

Several sources close to the investigation say the CIA monitored the computers of Senate aides working on the study, which “may have violated an agreement between the committee and the agency.” The computers were provided to the Senate aides in a secure room in Langley facilities for the review of classified documents.

Click through to McClatchy’s report for more details, especially about why you should always pay attention to the cryptic comments of Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Mark Udall (D-CO).

[h/t McClatchy DC]

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