Probe Sought Of CIA Conduct In Senate Study Of Secret Detention Program -- McClatchy News
WASHINGTON — The CIA Inspector General’s Office has asked the Justice Department to investigate allegations of malfeasance at the spy agency in connection with a yet-to-be released Senate Intelligence Committee report into the CIA’s secret detention and interrogation program, McClatchy has learned.
The criminal referral may be related to what several knowledgeable people said was CIA monitoring of computers used by Senate aides to prepare the study. The monitoring may have violated an agreement between the committee and the agency.
The development marks an unprecedented breakdown in relations between the CIA and its congressional overseers amid an extraordinary closed-door battle over the 6,300-page report on the agency’s use of waterboarding and harsh interrogation techniques on suspected terrorists held in secret overseas prisons. The report is said to be a searing indictment of the program. The CIA has disputed some of the reports findings.
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Update: C.I.A. Employees Face New Inquiry Amid Clashes on Detention Program -- New York Times
My Comment: If these reports are true .... this is an unprecedented breakdown between the CIA and the politicians who provide the necessary CIA oversight. People do not only deserve to be fired .... but if laws have been broken .... they should then be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
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