Is the CIA spying on congressional computers?

Here’s what you need to know

By Andrea Peterson, WashPost, Updated: March 11 at 2:33 pm

Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) accused the Central Intelligence Agency of an "unauthorized search" of her committee's computers today — while the committee was performing oversight over the CIA itself. In doing the search, she says the CIA potentially violated the separation of powers as enshrined by the constitution, along with federal laws and an executive order.

Wait, that sounds really major. What happened?

This is actually a really long story, but it all starts with "enhanced interrogation."

You mean torture?

Well, President Obama called it that. As one of his first acts in office, President Obama signed an executive order reversing the interrogation and detention practices of the Bush administration. That same year, the Senate Intelligence Committee started work on a study of the CIA's now-defunct interrogation and detention program.

(More here.)