Senator Mark Udall (D-CO) talks to the media after former CIA Director David Petraeus testified at a Senate Intelligence Committee closed hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, November 16, 2012.
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Obama Knew CIA Secretly Monitored Intelligence Committee, Senator Claims -- The Guardian
White House declines to comment after Mark Udall says agency spied on staffers preparing scathing report into CIA torture after 9/11
A leading US senator has said that President Obama knew of an “unprecedented action” taken by the CIA against the Senate intelligence committee, which has apparently prompted an inspector general’s inquiry at Langley.
The subtle reference in a Tuesday letter from Senator Mark Udall to Obama, seeking to enlist the president’s help in declassifying a 6,300-page inquiry by the committee into torture carried out by CIA interrogators after 9/11, threatens to plunge the White House into a battle between the agency and its Senate overseers.
McClatchy and the New York Times reported Wednesday that the CIA had secretly monitored computers used by committee staffers preparing the inquiry report, which is said to be scathing not only about the brutality and ineffectiveness of the agency’s interrogation techniques but deception by the CIA to Congress and policymakers about it. The CIA sharply disputes the committee’s findings.
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My Comment: If President Obama knew .... that would have meant that he had approved this spying operation. This is an explosive accusation that will need to be answered by the White House or clarified by US Senator Mark Udall.
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