Reid Orders Computer Review to Defend Senate Committee in Rift With the C.I.A.
By DAVID S. JOACHIM, NYT, MARCH 20, 2014
WASHINGTON — The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, said on Thursday that he had ordered a forensic examination of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s computer equipment to answer what he called the C.I.A.’s “absurd” claims that the committee’s staff had hacked into the agency’s network.
Mr. Reid’s order is the latest round of an escalating fight between the C.I.A. and the Intelligence Committee, which has oversight authority over the agency.
Last week, Senator Dianne Feinstein, the chairwoman of the committee, accused the C.I.A. of monitoring computers used by committee staff members to complete their investigation of the agency’s detention and interrogation programs — an action she said may have broken the law. She said that the agency had also improperly removed documents from the committee’s computers on two other occasions in 2010.
In a Jan. 27 letter to Ms. Feinstein that became public last week, the C.I.A. director, John O. Brennan, did not directly accuse the committee of computer hacking. He said that documents “may have been improperly obtained and/or retained” on a part of the C.I.A.’s computer network that had been designated for the committee’s use.
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WASHINGTON — The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, said on Thursday that he had ordered a forensic examination of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s computer equipment to answer what he called the C.I.A.’s “absurd” claims that the committee’s staff had hacked into the agency’s network.
Mr. Reid’s order is the latest round of an escalating fight between the C.I.A. and the Intelligence Committee, which has oversight authority over the agency.
Last week, Senator Dianne Feinstein, the chairwoman of the committee, accused the C.I.A. of monitoring computers used by committee staff members to complete their investigation of the agency’s detention and interrogation programs — an action she said may have broken the law. She said that the agency had also improperly removed documents from the committee’s computers on two other occasions in 2010.
In a Jan. 27 letter to Ms. Feinstein that became public last week, the C.I.A. director, John O. Brennan, did not directly accuse the committee of computer hacking. He said that documents “may have been improperly obtained and/or retained” on a part of the C.I.A.’s computer network that had been designated for the committee’s use.
(More here.)
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