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White House Knew CIA Snooped On Senate, Report Says
The Huffington Post ^ | Thursday, January 15, 2015 | Ali Watkins

Posted on 01/15/2015 2:18:03 PM PST by kristinn

Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan consulted the White House before directing agency personnel to sift through a walled-off computer drive being used by the Senate Intelligence Committee to construct its investigation of the agency’s torture program, according to a recently released report by the CIA’s Office of the Inspector General.

The Inspector General’s report, which was completed in July but only released by the agency on Wednesday, reveals that Brennan spoke with White House chief of staff Denis McDonough before ordering CIA employees to “use whatever means necessary” to determine how certain sensitive internal documents had wound up in Senate investigators’ hands.

Brennan’s consultation with McDonough also came before the CIA revealed the search to then-Senate Intelligence Committee chair Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), whose staff was the target of the snooping.

The new information suggesting the White House was aware of -- and did not stop -- the CIA’s computer snooping is unlikely to improve the existing distrust between Senate committee members and the executive branch. Feinstein has said that the CIA's computer search likely violated the constitutional separation of powers, an allegation the White House has declined to directly address.

The Oval Office’s prior knowledge of the controversial computer review will no doubt worsen the tensions that have erupted over the matter between the executive branch, its chief intelligence agency and the lawmakers tasked with their oversight.

In January 2014, agency personnel became concerned that a set of sensitive, internal CIA documents known as the Panetta Review had somehow made their way into the hands of Feinstein’s investigators, who were working at a secure, off-site CIA facility to compile a 6,600-page study on the CIA's post-9/11 torture program...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government
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To: kristinn

J. Edgar Hoover would Never have put up with this crap.


21 posted on 01/15/2015 3:13:10 PM PST by Joe Boucher (The F.B.I. Is a division of holders Justice Dept. (Nuff said))
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To: kristinn

So Dianne, what are you going to do about it now since Brennan and McDonough obviously lied to you?


22 posted on 01/15/2015 3:37:02 PM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: kristinn

This is not much different than Nixons plumbers.


23 posted on 01/15/2015 3:40:46 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: kristinn
After six years of lawlessness

what difference does it make?

24 posted on 01/15/2015 4:09:03 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/


25 posted on 01/15/2015 6:06:37 PM PST by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: gaijin; rarestia; Old Sarge; brucecw; EnigmaticAnomaly; KylaStarr; Califreak; kalee; milford421; ...
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Article, and #'s 4, 5, 6.

This ping list knew a long time ago that our elected officials were compromised, and they are directly responsible for the terrible mess in our US government, and country. They should be hanged at dawn for treason.

26 posted on 01/15/2015 6:46:16 PM PST by LucyT
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To: gaijin; kristinn; LucyT; null and void; KC_Lion

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3247252/posts?page=6#6

Maybe that’s how Brennan got his job, told 0 to hire him or else that info (that leiutenant quarles harris stole for him) goes public.


27 posted on 01/15/2015 6:53:27 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2001)
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To: null and void; KC_Lion

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3247252/posts?page=4#4

Pinging y’all to this, also #5 & 6.


28 posted on 01/15/2015 6:56:27 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2001)
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To: lee martell
Of course ‘The White House knew’. Who do you think ordered it? Just as the IRS was utilized by the White House for an election advantage in 2012 and since then just for spite.

Who's the useful idiot over at the FCC that's going to make net neutrality law?

29 posted on 01/15/2015 6:59:30 PM PST by GOPJ (NYT "Free Speech" - ISIS can post severed heads to twitter but we can't post Mohammed cartoons.)
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To: kristinn

BTTT


30 posted on 01/15/2015 7:14:26 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: kristinn

Poor Feinstein.

Two words:

Ha! Ha!


31 posted on 01/16/2015 5:32:12 AM PST by baltimorepoet
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To: kristinn; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; Travis McGee; ..
The biggest killer of mankind

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...


32 posted on 01/16/2015 6:24:09 AM PST by null and void (The aggregate effect of competitive capitalism is indistinguishable from magic)
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To: kristinn

I’m sure Di Fi is just outraged over this.......


33 posted on 01/16/2015 6:30:39 AM PST by CAluvdubya (<------- has now left CA for NV, where God and guns have not been outlawed! Molon Labe)
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To: kristinn

Lots of muzzies in this story.


34 posted on 01/16/2015 9:31:50 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: kristinn

The trail will always end with Jarrett. That’s her job.


35 posted on 01/16/2015 9:33:49 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: cripplecreek
"His company was found to have breached candidate passport files back in the 08"

Yup.

Back in March 2008, the State Department launched an investigation of improper computer access to the passport records of Barack Hussein Obama, and days later those of Hillary Clinton and John McCain. The investigation centered on one employee: a contract worker for a company that was headed by John O. Brennan, a key Obama campaign adviser who later became assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism.

Then, a month later, the key witness in this case was murdered. Leiutenant (sic) Quarles Harris, Jr., 24, was shot in the head in his car, in front of his church.

During the 2008 presidential election, I ran a number of stories at my website, AtlasShrugs.com, on the breach of Obama's passport. Fast-forward to four years later, and there is no new information. Why is this murder case not being pursued? Who at the State Department is covering up Obama's passport breach? Lt. Harris told federal investigators before he was murdered that he received "passport information from a co-conspirator who works for the U.S. Department of State." What became of the "co-conspirator"? Why wasn't he/she brought to trial?

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2012/07/obamas_passport_breach_unanswered_questions_and_an_unsolved_murder.html

Clearly, there was something to hide (or destroy) within Barry's passport files.

36 posted on 01/16/2015 10:22:56 AM PST by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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Back to the thread, check out #36.

Also see tagline at # 29.

Thanks, rxsid.

37 posted on 01/16/2015 3:40:14 PM PST by LucyT
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To: null and void

It’s the Chicago way


38 posted on 01/16/2015 6:57:22 PM PST by Nifster
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To: kristinn

I’m sure not-so-Fine-stein will have a few things to say, oh wait, wait, her husband just made a BILLION dollar deal with the Feds and she’s worth $70 million alone...hit the snooze as none of our leaders are saying a thing or when they are they look like sick baboons.


39 posted on 01/17/2015 12:15:43 PM PST by Karliner ( Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28- 8:38"...this is the end of the beginning."WC)
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To: kristinn

Spying on reporters

Spying on the legislative

Publicly condeming the Supreme Court

Harassing the Tea Party

Ignoring laws he dislikes

How is he not a dictator?


40 posted on 01/18/2015 7:57:52 AM PST by gaijin
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