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White House Tried To Mediate Dispute Between Senate, CIA Panel: Source -- Reuters
(Reuters) - The White House's top lawyer has tried to mediate between the Senate Intelligence Committee and the CIA, which are making increasingly bitter mutual charges of spying on each other about a Bush-era program of harsh interrogation, a source familiar with the discussion told Reuters.
The involvement of Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler indicates White House interest in ending the battle, in which the Central Intelligence Agency and the Senate panel have essentially accused each of spying on the other.
Ruemmler has attempted to "de-escalate" the tension, the source said. The fight burst into the open on Monday when the committee chair Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein said the CIA had possibly broken the law by spying on Congress.
CIA Director John Brennan denied that the spy agency had engaged in such activities, saying "Nothing could be further from the truth."
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My Comment: Mediate?!?!?!? This is complete nonsense .... the White House runs the CIA .... they do not have to mediate anything. The real issue is that the executive (i.e. the White House) is not permitting Congress to do it's necessary oversight .... an oversight that is mandated by law. This is rapidly becoming a constitutional crisis .... and the media has gone AWOL (again). If this was being done by the previous Bush administration .... there would be wall - to - wall news coverage and protests.
Update #1: With this CIA scandal now becoming public, why does this not surprise me .... Obama threatens vetoes of bills requiring him to follow the law -- Washington Examiner
Update #2: It looks like the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee has a mole in the CIA .... Did secret CIA whistle-blower leak to the Senate? -- Christian Science Monitor
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"the White House runs the CIA " They can never admit that, for it would put all the other scandals at their door step in self admission.
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