Mark Udall: CIA Took “Unprecedented Action” Against SSCI on Its Own Torture Report

By A Guy Called LULU on Wed, 03/05/2014 - 8:30am |

Mark Udall just wrote Obama a sometimes cryptic letter asking him to commit to declassifying the Senate Intelligence Report torture report. In it, he:

Asserts a significant amount of what has been declassified about the torture program is “misleading and inaccurate”

URL:

http://www.emptywheel.net/2014/03/04/mark-udall-cia-took-unprecedented-action-against-ssci-to-cover-up-torture/

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Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, a panel member, apparently was referring to the monitoring when he asked CIA Director John Brennan at a Jan. 9 hearing if provisions of the Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act “apply to the CIA? Seems to me that’s a yes or no answer.”

Brennan replied that he’d have to get back to Wyden after looking into “what the act actually calls for and it’s applicability to CIA’s authorities.”

The law makes it a criminal act for someone to intentionally access a computer without authorization or to go beyond what they’re allowed to access.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/03/04/220161/cia-monitoring-of-senate-co...

And some analysis/speculation,

http://www.moonofalabama.org/2014/03/cia-spies-on-its-overseers-subverts...

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/03/04/220161/cia-monitoring-of-senate-co...

by A Guy Called LULU on Wed, 03/05/2014 - 8:34am

From Emptywheel to the front page NYT:

...the C.I.A. took what Senator Mark Udall, Democrat of Colorado, on Tuesday called an “unprecedented action” against the committee.

The action, which Mr. Udall did not describe, took place after C.I.A. officials came to suspect that congressional staff members had gained unauthorized access to agency documents during the course of the Intelligence Committee’s years-long investigation into the detention and interrogation program.

Somebody was quoted as saying: 'Yeah, I support bringing Snowden to trail. After the members of the CIA who tortured people and then destroyed the video's and evidence.'

Does the CIA still think it's the 1960's? Oct. 1963, a month before JFK was assassinated, this Op-Ed by Arthur Krock, appeared with this statement in the NYT:

...The C.I.A.'s growth was "likened to a malignancy" which the "very high official was not sure even the White House could control . . . any longer." "If the United States ever experiences [an attempt at a coup to overthrow the Government] it will come from the C.I.A. and not the Pentagon." The agency "represents a tremendous power and total unaccountability to anyone."...

by NCD on Wed, 03/05/2014 - 9:13am

Update from Emptywheel.

http://www.emptywheel.net/2014/03/05/operation-stall/

by A Guy Called LULU on Wed, 03/05/2014 - 8:37pm

And some more from The Guardian.

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.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/05/obama-cia-senate-intelligen...

by A Guy Called LULU on Wed, 03/05/2014 - 9:00pm

Guardian:

...the agency spying on its Senate overseers who prepared their own inquiry potentially places the agency right back into the legal morass it has labored for years to avoid.

The CIA never labors to avoid a 'legal morass'. Since inception it operates in spite of the law. An administration in the early 60's tried to remedy that reality, it didn't end well.

by Anonymous ncd (not verified) on Wed, 03/05/2014 - 10:32pm

They killed JFK?

My local Pacifica station also seems to think they were involved in RFK's murder.

by Peter Schwartz on Thu, 03/06/2014 - 10:23am

Mark Udall: CIA Took “Unprecedented Action” Against SSCI on Its Own Torture Report

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