White House Knew CIA Snooped On Senate, Report Says

The Huffington Post ^ | Thursday, January 15, 2015 | Ali Watkins

[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...

[Joe Boucher]

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

[Timber Rattler]

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

[Georgia Girl 2]

This is not much different than Nixons plumbers.

[TigersEye]

After six years of lawlessness

what difference does it make?

[Nachum]

The list, Ping

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

http://www.nachumlist.com/

[LucyT]

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.

[WildHighlander57]

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.

[WildHighlander57]

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

Pinging y’all to this, also #5 & 6.

[GOPJ]

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?

[Jet Jaguar]

BTTT

[baltimorepoet]

Poor Feinstein.

Two words:

Ha! Ha!

[null and void]

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...

[CAluvdubya]

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

[bgill]

Lots of muzzies in this story.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

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

[rxsid]

"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.

[LucyT]

Back to the thread, check out #36.

Also see tagline at # 29.

Thanks, rxsid.

[Nifster]

It’s the Chicago way

[Karliner]

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.

[gaijin]

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?