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Post 11 Mar 2014, 3:16 pm

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/m ... ittee-live

A developing story, but it seems that the Senate (not just Feinstein) are mightily annoyed at the CIA for apparently interfering in their oversight of... the CIA.

Today the CIA denied wrongdoing in searching Senate computers. But the agency has argued on at least one recent occasion that it had no authorized access to the Senate material.

In a recent court case, the CIA argued that the Senate’s inquiry into CIA torture was the exclusive property of the Senate, Guardian national security editor Spencer Ackerman (@attackerman) reports. The argument was intended to deny the ACLU’s effort to force disclosure of the classified, 6300-page report by the Senate intelligence committee.

Oregon senator Ron Wyden said in a statement Tuesday that the CIA can’t have it both ways. “The CIA’s own recent court filing makes clear that the work product on these computers was and is ‘the property of the Committee.’ Wyden said.


And Feinstein has been putting this EFF sticker on Senate computers:
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Sidebar - when I started playing diplomacy online, it was using the automated judges. The most reliable ones were hosted by the Electronic Freedom Foundation.
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Post 12 Mar 2014, 2:20 pm

Its interesting that Feinstein is upset at her staff being monitored, but wasn't that upset about the NSA operations.
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Post 12 Mar 2014, 3:50 pm

rickyp wrote:Its interesting that Feinstein is upset at her staff being monitored, but wasn't that upset about the NSA operations.
Sometimes it takes something close to home to bring these issues to someone's mind. At least Congress is taking more of an interest in NSA spying (our own Parliament seemingly could not give a stuff)