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The CIA’s Espionage and Obama’s Secrets
http://watchingamerica.com/News/235823/the-cias-espionage-and-obamas-secrets/Accused of having spied on the Senate, the CIA is asking the president for help. Obama must decide what to do. Otherwise, there is the risk of new revelations coming out
The CIAs Espionage and Obamas Secrets
Panorma, Italy
By Michele Zurieni
Translated By Sabrina Chapman
12 March 2014
Edited by Gillian Palmer
When we enter the labyrinthine game of mirrors that is politics and espionage, there is the risk of finding ourselves in front of a door that doesnt open. The right path is either next to us or behind us. But the shadows, the lights and the reflected images have been misleading. Constantly moving, even so, sooner or later we will find it and leave maybe after we have found another door, one that we were not looking for. The U.S. Senate, the CIA and the White House are all struggling with this game. It is up to us to work out where it is leading.
Dispute between the Senate and the CIA
Since yesterday, a serious constitutional crisis looms over Washington. Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat, has accused the CIA of spying on employees of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, trying to steal documents and putting undue pressure on her staff. This is the culmination of an almost year-long arm-wrestle between Langley and the governmental organization that has investigated the CIAs activities since 9/11. But it is only another quarter of the match; it is not the end.
The point of contention is a 6,300-page report that the committee drafted over three years, from 2009 to 2012. The report was completed in December 2012 and approved with a majority vote: nine in favor and six against. After this vote, the CIA sent a 120-page memorandum to contest the foundations of the report: Years of coercive methods in the fight against terrorism have not produced a single bit of (useful) information for Intelligence. Kidnappings, torture, imprisonments: all useless. To defeat the enemy, more is (was) needed.
The Report on the CIAs Prisons
The committee has always refused to change these foundations. It has made them on the basis of thousands of CIA documents contained in a classified database. Names; dates; events; methods used in interrogations. Paperwork that should have only been in the hands of those at the head of the CIA instead ended up on the computers of senators. The pressure started then. Langley sought to find those responsible for these documents, telling the committees staff members that they committed a crime the moment they came into possession of them. The dispute had been going on behind closed doors when Dianne Feinstein decided to make it public.
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The CIA’s Espionage and Obama’s Secrets (Original Post)
unhappycamper
Mar 2014
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orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)1. This is why JFK saw the danger in such an enity .
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)2. I'll bet that this shit goes back to Bush, his dad, Cheney and Rumsfeld.
My bet is that they had the CIA checking on Dems in general and it's gone on from then and now it's protecting it's own ...a blue code of their own.