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CIA Admits Spying On Senate Computers
It's not been a good day for the CIA. First, the State Department slams them for brutally treating terror suspects after the 9/11 attacks, noting that "no American is proud" of CIA tactics. And now, as The NY Times reports, an internal investigation has found that its officers improperly penetrated a computer network used by the Senate Intelligence Committee in preparing the report on the CIA's detention and interrogation program. Of course, this is not the first time the CIA has hacked Senate networks but do not fear American citizenry, CIA Director has apologized for his staff "acting inappropriately" and is setting up an internal accountability board to review the matter.
The report is damning... (via AP)
The State Department has endorsed the broad conclusions of a harshly critical Senate report on the CIA's interrogation and detention practices after the 9/11 attacks, a report that accuses the agency of brutally treating terror suspects and misleading Congress, according to a White House document.
"This report tells a story of which no American is proud," says the four-page White House document, which contains the State Department's preliminary proposed talking points in response to the classified Senate report, a summary of which is expected to be released in the coming weeks.
The Senate report concludes that CIA's techniques on al-Qaida detainees captured after the 2001 attacks were far more brutal than previously understood. The tactics failed to produce life-saving intelligence, the report asserts, and the CIA misled Congress and the Justice Department about the interrogation program.
So it is no wonder the CIA decided it was above the law and hacked the Senate's PCs... (via NY Times)
In a statement issued Thursday morning, a C.I.A. spokesman said that agency’s inspector general had concluded that C.I.A. officers had acted inappropriately by gaining access to the computers.
The statement said that John O. Brennan, the C.I.A. director, had apologized to the two senior members of the Senate Intelligence Committee and that he would set up an internal accountability board to review the matter. The board will be led by former Senator Evan Bayh, Democrat of Indiana.
The statement gave almost no specifics about the findings of the report, written by David Buckley, the agency’s inspector general.
Officials said there was a tense meeting earlier this week when Mr. Brennan briefed the two senators — Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California and Saxby Chambliss, Republican of Georgia. The officials said Ms. Feinstein had confronted Mr. Brennan about past public statements on the issue, in which he defended the agency’s actions.
Of course Brennan denied it all when Feinstein first lost her temper over it...
When the C.I.A.'s monitoring of the committee became public in March Mr. Brennan said, “When the facts come out on this, I think a lot of people who are claiming that there has been this tremendous sort of spying and monitoring and hacking will be proved wrong.”
Nope - you lied... and once again there is no accountability
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Hilarious.
Why stop there? Waterboard the Senators!
Inappropriate yes, against the law........ not so much.
See 'Patriot Act" for any further questions on said topic.
P.S. Dear America, eventually you get the government you deserve.
I bet nobody goes to jail for the "improper penetration". This is CIA, FFS.
Another day, another limited hangout from a corrupt bureaucracy.
The CIA was supposed to only spy on foreign interests. I think that changed with the Patriot Act, but even if it didn't, there are around 27 Congressmen and 13 Senators who currently hold dual citizenship with Israel to keep the CIA spooks busy.
Senate:
•Senator Barbara Boxer (California)
•Senator Benjamin Cardin (Maryland)
•Senator Russ Feingold (Wisconsin)
•Senator Al Franken (Minnesota)
•Senator Dianne Feinstein (California)
•Senator Herb Kohl (Wisconsin)
•Senator Frank Lautenberg (New Jersey)
•Senator Joe Lieberman (Connecticut) (Independent)
•Senator Carl Levin (Michigan)
•Senator Bernard Sanders (Vermont) (Independent)
•Senator Charles Schumer (New York)
•Senator Ron Wyden (Oregon)
House of Representatives:
•Representative Gary Ackerman (New York)
•Representative John H. Adler (New Jersey)
•Representative Shelley Berkley (Nevada)
•Representative Howard Berman (California)
•Representative Steve Cohen (Tennessee)
•Representative Susan Davis (California)
•Representative Eliot Engel (New York)
•Representative Bob Filner (California)
•Representative Barney Frank (Massachusetts)
•Representative Gabrielle Giffords (Arizona)
•Representative Alan Grayson (Florida)
•Representative Jane Harman (California)
•Representative Paul Hodes (New Hampshire)
•Representative Steve Israel (New York)
•Representative Steve Kagen (Wisconsin)
•Representative Ronald Klein (Florida)
•Representative Sander Levin (Michigan)
•Representative Nita Lowey (New York)
•Representative Jerry Nadler (New York)
•Representative Jared Polis (Colorado)
•Representative Steve Rothman (New Jersey)
•Representative Jan Schakowsky (Illinois)
•Representative Adam Schiff (California)
•Representative Allyson Schwartz (Pennsylvania)
•Representative Brad Sherman (California)
•Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Florida)
•Representative Henry Waxman (California)
•Representative Anthony Weiner (New York)
•Representative John Yarmuth (Kentucky)
and then this takes things to a whole new level of wtf:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/11/nsa-americans-personal-data...
so, does israhell get a direct feed on intel from congress critters... rhetorical question...
'Merca! Fuck yeah!
Is anyone here the least bit surprised by this?
pods
we should disband these drug dealers, the only reason to keep the cia around is to feed the prison system their low level dealers, i guess thats a money maker for someone since we have more people locked up than china, i'm thinking the bush cheney types. but haven't we made them rich enough already?
I don't think this list is current. Weiner hasn't been around for a while
Israel gets the Ultra HD broadcast of C-SPAN courtesy of their cable provider (the NSA).
The USSA had to agree to provide this information after it suffered a loss of life in the attack on USS Liberty. To cover up its heinous crime and its flagrant violation of international law in permitting its citizen soldires to die in the unprovoked attack, the USSA was forced to make amends by supplying a foreign power with detailed intelligence on US citizens.
This is the small price the USSA must pay for being the worlds sole super power.
You know what is fucked up? In states that have "closed primary" elections, you can only vote in ONE party's primary. The theory being that someone could be deliberately fucking with the "integrity" of the election. BUT? These fucking scumbags can be ctizens of one country AND hold office in another! Is that bullshit or what?
And if somebody tried to pass a law preventing this where would the bribes come from? LOL! (It isn't funny) Question: how many other countries have dual citizens in the USSA? Hmmm?
Fuck off. FUck shit FUCK! FUCK. FOCK OFF! And I am a racist and support the holocaust for being against this? FUCK!
I feel like the presence of Wyden and Grayson on this list, not to mention Bernie Sanders, is pretty weird.
Wyden and Grayson are two of the only congress persons I see doing any kind of real oversight at all.
Such as?
Louis McFadden
Sound bytes.
Or is that bites?
Why is dick-pic Weiner on the list?
Jewish people comprise ~2% of the U.S. population.
Assuming this list is correct, then at least 12% of the Senate is Jewish, and at least 7% of the House of Reps is Jewish.
Huh.
And someone was asking in another thread about why the U.S. continues to plow foreign aid into Israel despite major policy disagreements...
Including former & deceased.
As its main proponets all down the years Jews should also enjoy the fruits of Affirmative Action. http://irishsavant.blogspot.ie/2014/03/common-justice-demands-affirmative.html
Not if the case is tried in Texas, they have strict laws against that kinky stuff.
check this out
http://nypost.com/2014/07/31/1-dead-1-critically-injured-in-chicagos-ban...
I don't miss the cubicle farms, old computer geeks are ticking time bombs.
Did I tell you I know Fortran and still know how to use an IBM 029??
YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT!?
Well... Do ya punk!?
Jesus, you go back further than me! We must be the only two left who used Fortran or punched up code on an 029.
Hollerith cards and paper tape FTW!
The whole purpose of having so many laws on the books is so that anyone can be convicted of a crime when the State deems a show trial to be in order.
This demonstrates just how low on the totem pole Fienswine is- she doesn't even have the juice can't get Kweku Adoboli's cousin out of the CIA and into a Club Fed prison.
'The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws'.
- Tacitus
Inappropriate yes, against the law........ (Remove "not so much") YES.
See (remove 'Patriot Act") the US constitution for any further questions on said topic.
P.S. Dear America, eventually you get the government you deserve.
i agree, waterboard the senators. it's totally legal.
CIA has become a rogue agency of the United States of America, Corporation. Are the Pentagon protecting the out of control Zionist run USA, Inc or is there any hope of them restoring America and arresting the traiters in the US Gov and it's plethora of rogue agencys?
The only hope is a massive national economic collapse. Only that will activate the lardasses and ungle them from their lobotomy tubes.
"Why stop there? Waterboard the Senators!"
OOOOOH!!! I'm all for that! Why stop there? There are many more CONgress scum, the Marxist in Chief, and all his czar scum friends to waterboard as well. Not to mention the TSA, DHS, CIA, NSA, EPA, FDA, FBI, etc., etc., etc. The traitors and home grown, domestic government terrorists to waterboard are limitless in America these days unfortunately.
Pretty warped sense of humor you have.
Do you drown kittens for kicks, or is it just puppies ?
more shadow puppet theater....
CIA attacks NSA using mole snowden.
NSA attacks CIA with secret torture document leak and senate computer spying revelations.
It's called a War in Heaven.
shadow boxing kabuki mindfuk smoke and mirrors who's gonna make the rules today baby gong show.
enjoy.
I thought that waterboarding, drilling teeth to a nubbon, yanking on fingernails, shocking testicles, shoving chopsticks in ear drums, and so on...was not torture; merely Truth Seeking.
Yep, make CIA look bad so NSA can be the heroes. I want the CIA to protect me from the NSA. Or maybe I want them all to fuck off and die.
Remember that the NSA got rid of Petraeus by spying on the CIA.
Brennan to staff: "Get rid of those shock boxes for now. Put them in storage outside America."
Inconvenient news flash. The Intelligence community runs the show and they do it by spying on everyone. You're either compromised or a compromiser.
Guess it would be rayciss to see her in blackface with him...
http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/09/08/interview-star-treks-nichelle-nich...
Dr Evil in 1 million Dollars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKKHSAE1gIs (1:57)
Dr. Evil & Mini Me - Hard Knock Life HD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jZiKFLL6MI (2:01)
hahahaha, that's great. of course the Doc was right
"improperly penetrated"
Doesn't the American government do that to us each and every day?
Sometimes on CIA orders.
pretty entertaining when the shadow government gets caught with its hand in the cookie jar.
Far more interesting is that it's being discussed at all. Really makes you wonder WTF this is a limited hangout/cover for.
I halfway wonder between the NSA and CIA disclosures if this isn't building to something bigger, where we reform the intelligence agencies into the new Stasi.
my thought is that the 'hidden hand' fully intends to unleash armed chaos in North America, to dramatically change everything here. Destroying the legitimacy of the current government seems to have a long term goal that has played out well, just look at government gridlock and congress' approval ratings.
besides, nothing new really... wasn't this all done in Rome and various other countries throughout history, and hasn't it been reflected in popular culture repeatedly (chancelor palpatine, please save the republic....)
"They" can come up with the real birth certificate whenever they desire for starting things up.
Well the militarization of the police, the raft of dictatorial legislation, seizing ordinary citizens' guns and throwing open the borders tell me that something big is planned, and that it's going to go down pretty soon.
I was wondering the same, like the concept of the "bad bank" that gets bankrupted and all the bad debt goes with it while another entity with the good assets gets to go forward and continue doing business, I am wondering if the CIA is being thrown under the bus as the "bad spooks." The "good spooks" are already doing business and they will be even less visible and transparent because they are going to be even more self sufficient.
I love to watch the monster eat itself.
Its all fun & games 'til the monster falls on you...
I'll show them an improper penetration!
-Bubba in cell C4.
pods
that was funny
I bet by the time he realized his error you had already signed for him and blocked him out of being able to edit his post.
When nothing happens other than some stern words from the elected "representatives," it will again be clear who is really in charge.
Sorry LTER. I believe it's been crystal clear to you, me and everyone else here on ZeeHedge who is running this Demonic Monkey Show. And it isn't anyone we've seen in public. We only see the big name kabuki thesbians, never the off-stage directors.
where r u????
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzyhZ39BX3s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPVrFIP0CMs
You put computers in the hands of that many porn monkeys, and eventually they'll download some kind of CIA monitoring app - it's just the odds... I'm sure when the facts come out, it will just be a simple misunderstanding. As I finish typing that, I forget if I was trying to be facetious.
And the NSA spies on everyone and then gives it to that shitty little country in the middle east. And Obummer will still be the Fall Guy before this is over. The job pays well, but could have a drawback attached to the agreement.
the NSA spies on everyone and then gives it to that shitty little country in the middle east.
They also give it (and more) to UK, Canada, Australia and NZ. Parts of it to many others.
And, by the way, there are a dozen or more shitty countries in the ME. And, come to think about it, there are shitty guvs everywhere.
how many people do think had any difficulty figuring out who the "shitty little country in the middle east" is?
CH1 had no problem knowing which country.
NO. Just Israel, part of the "Special Relationship".
I thought he was Hand of the King to one of the Targaryens? No>?
Learn something every day here on the 'hedge, yo.
With a piece of shit like Feinstein who do you expect to hold the CIA accountable?
I wish that cunt would die already. Traitor.
Evil doesn't die, it just takes a different form.
She sure has done well financially from being a traitor.
CIA wanted to make sure that the Senate was doing what they were told to.
Preventive tech support prompted by upgrade to Windows 8.
All I keep thinking is that it is time for a 1000-Bulldozer "March" on DC. Level the whole fucking place (plus Langley and a few other associated facilities)! As a bonus plan, each of those 1000 bulldozers should be towing one of kchrisc's world-famous, Made-In-America guillotines.
Guillotines, don't forget the guillotines.
"improperly penetrated"
I always ask first. Of course, the duct tape muffles the response, but I do ask...
mwanm wamnmns umm
'I'll take that as a yes."
- pods
yer slippin' a little today...lol
This country is coming apart at the seams before our very eyes. This statement is not hyperbole.
Obvious to me that you're correct but a lot of Americans I talk to seem to think it's going fine. Admittedly they've done very well on stocks!
Scatter it to the wind.
Obama's first job out of college was working for a CIA front company. So he has always played ball with the CIA unlike John Kennedy who threatened to shatter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds. Instead his brains were shattered as Jackie valiantly tried to retrieve them from the trunk of the Presidential limousine:
Obama administration drops investigation into CIA spying on US Senate
By Patrick Martin12 July 2014
The US Department of Justice announced Thursday that it would not investigate charges that the CIA had spied on members of the staff of the Senate Intelligence Committee, whitewashing the brazenly illegal actions of the US intelligence apparatus. “The department carefully reviewed the matters referred to us and did not find sufficient evidence to warrant a criminal investigation,” read the Justice Department statement.
The department will also not investigate countercharges by the CIA that Senate staffers had gained unauthorized access to CIA documents, effectively equating the two and prompting the corporate-controlled media (which has largely buried the story) to portray the action as a neutral, “hands-off” position in a murky dispute between the Senate and the CIA.
The CIA surveillance of the activities of the Senate committee—which is charged by law with oversight of the CIA—was such a flagrant violation of the constitutional separation of powers that the panel’s chairman, Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, took the extraordinary step of denouncing the agency in an hour-long speech on the Senate floor on March 11.
A longtime hardline defender of the intelligence apparatus, Feinstein was visibly disturbed by what she had learned of the CIA’s actions, which she said “may well have violated the separation-of-powers principle embodied in the United States Constitution,” and also “the Fourth Amendment, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, as well as Executive Order 12333, which prohibits the CIA from conducting domestic searches or surveillance.”
The conflict arose over the four-year campaign by the CIA to stall the Senate committee’s inquiry into torture of prisoners at secret CIA-run prisons (“black sites”) between 2002 and 2006 under the Bush administration. Dozens of prisoners captured in Afghanistan, Iraq and other countries were taken to these secret prisons in a half dozen countries—Thailand, Romania and Poland among them—and subjected to waterboarding and other forms of torture.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/07/12/cias-j12.html
Was Jacqui retrieving brain matter or running from the driver/shooter of JFK's vehicle as Bill Cooper (murdered) claimed?
Behold a Pale Horse.
LoL it's always Feinstein selling us this SKYNET wish list in one hand, now shit in the other.
She wants more prisons and bike trails, just not in her backyard.
IRS targeting ok, CIA snooping not. - wapo, nyt
CIA snooping ok, IRS not. - fox
These are tough choices. Glad we have some.
Loophole 101, CIA was on foreign country soil to legally screen domestic intelligence.
/sarc
Ok this begs the question: who is really in control in America?
Graduates of Skull and Bones who are part of the Illuminati calling shots from the Bohemiam Grove who are a faction of the evil zionist Rothschild clan.
I've been reading ZH comments too long.
Well, we can certainly count out the senate.
Puppets, all.
Who runs Bartertown? The Fugs have an idea:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW9cCWm53H4
who is really in control in America?
No one!
The big crooks (MIC, Intel, Banks, politicians) are doing their best to rob and controll, but they fight amongst themselves too.
The productive people of N. America could control everything, but they don't believe that they have any right to control anything... not even their own lives.
don't ask these questions...it hurts the sheeple's head
REPTILLIANS
We do, they fear lost control under a coup d'état. Under the Constitution, our rights are preserved. Treason activities hang over their head. The fear hamster wheel is the last card they have to keep agenda moving forward. You have heard Obama using the Forward statement.
Congressional IT secuirty department is the CIA... who knew... I mean its says they monitor key strokes on the login banner.
We should probably repeal whatever obscure law everyone keeps using that says when a government employee commits a crime they can't be punished in any way as long as they apologize.
Why that would be none other than the executive bum in charge, executive order 12333.
Banksters corporation
Spying on the Senate has as much taste as taking an upskirt photo of Nancy Pelosi. It also yields about the same level of information.
http://www.newsweek.com/israel-wont-stop-spying-us-249757
....
Senate Intel Committee Chair Feinstein to Investigate Israeli Spying Claims
Crazy. Beyond Thunderdome Crazy.
so is this:
Why is Israel Providing 'Security' to US Nuke Plants & Air Force Bases?What's up, clueless!
Run the data through Israel and everyone has legal immunity for unconstitutional practices.
High finance works the exact same way.
Damn. Thanks for the 'security' link (if not the aneurism)...
Beyond Thunderdome Crazy indeed. An Israeli dual citizen investigating whether Israel spied. Couldn't make it up.
Its not that they hacked into the computers...I want to know what they found out????
Throw that deviate into prison. Try him for treason.
But Feinstien, if you only knew what the CIA knew then you would understand and support their actions.
Didn't you say something similar to that to the american people when justifying NSA operations once they became public?
Fuck the report. This government is something no American is proud of.
So that means the CIA was most likely, intimidating, and blackmailing everyone in the senate to vote however the CIA wanted them to....NSA as well....it's one big fuck fest.
The CIA is getting a severe enema right now....Lets see how long they can hold on to that water before they give up and flood the offices.
Taking bets?
Well he did say he was sorry!! I'm sure won't do that again.
Extortion, blackmail, arm twisting, and subtle threats of "you too can be disappeared" or "beware of nail guns" has probally been whispered in every ear of CONgress at some time or another...why is this so suprising?
I'd say one of the biggest and most terrifying risks is having the Agency, unknown to you, download child porn or some such onto your computer. Then they make sure it's 'discovered' but promise to keep quiet about it. Unless.......
The U.S.A is sooo F'd!
and the CIA reports to the...............CFR.
The SIS.
(and I'm not referring to any the 14 intelligence abbreviations you can find named in Wikipedia, so why isn't the 15th listed?)
and they cant find Lerner's missing emails?
Bollocks.
Her fucking dog ate her emails. And all the copies that have ever existed on every recipients email inbox. And all the servers the emails crossed. What don't you understand about how logical and likely this is? Jeez!
Tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theorists.
Israeli art students Spying Mossad OP < - Repeating the past. See below.
Israel Spying on the US Before 9/11| Four part series.
Are we speaking of the people who are still being detained indefinitely without a trial?
I thought so...
so who goes to jail?
don't mind me, I'll just wait here.
Jail, or even criminal inquiry is reserved only for peasants that smoke weed and speed. Justice at the Federal Government has been dripping with corruption since at least November, 1963 when it was officially entrenched.
Wow, the ultra-fascist spy-state advocate Diane Feinstein feigns anger over fascist spy-state activities. Red meat for the voters back home.
Well, she's likely pissed that SHE got spied on, anyone else getting spied on is fine.
I hope Brennan shoved a broomstick up Feinstein's twat.
She prefers anal for pleasure.
Jew hags don't do anal...that's saved for the schiksas (preferably 10 and under)
"If she's not doing anything wrong, she has nothing to worry about."
Residents of Texas, I hear on the news today that citizens of Texas will now, or will soon, have to provide ALL 10 fingerprints to the department of public safety if they wish to renew their drivers license.
Residents of other states...bend over..., cause your next...
Is it too late to kill this latest population control measure?
Seems like there is a new one every f*@king week.
People think Texas is some sort of haven from statism, until they move here. They've been taking thumbprints for over a decade, and you have to do an automated eye test, so it is likely recording biometrics there as well. They already have my prints (conceal carry, NFA weapons, etc.) but it still pisses me off.
End the CIA. Prosecute every last son of a bitch past and present still alive for crimes committed.
No excuses, no exceptions, f--k them up.
As if all they did was peek inside a look around a bit.
They are doing things much worse than simply peeking. Think about it. The stuff they admit to is pretty bad. Its what they are still hiding thats bad.
The clues are there.
Cornered rats eating each other. Does the end draw nigh?
I give ya one more clue. Whatever the stated goal of any branch you can be sure thier actions are the opposite.
Yea, we got caught spying again. But don't worry, we'll set up an in-house investigation and find the lone underling responsible for it.'
The 100% redacted report gave no indication of the findings or actions, if any, being taken as this entire event has now been classified as a matter of nation security.
Diane Feinswine could be heard grunting with satisfaction as her trough was now overflowing with swill courtesy of her global masters.
She leads a Schweinerei.
Is anybody today not a 'spy?'
It appears Ron Paul is becoming "right-er and right-er" on more and more geopolitical and domestic issues as time goes on.
Was there ever much doubt?
So, DiFei, publish the fucking Senate report already. NO REDACTIONS.
Oh she will. When hell freezes over.
So, let's say the globalists get their dream and we have a one world technocrat led fascist government. What then does the CIA do for a day job?
A. They are no longer needed
B. They know too much about those who would crown themselves emperors
Do they become the UN police and walk a beat?
"It appears Ron Paul was right."
It appears Ron Paul was right AGAIN
There , Fixed it for ya
One word, treason.
"Treason doth never prosper; what's the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason."
Sir John Harrington, about 400 years ago.
It was the discovery of the Feinstein sex tape that so offended the CIA that it preferred to admit spying than have to retain that material in its possession even one day lobger.
Feinstein was not furious. That is all for show. She knows fools will think that because of her hawkish reputation when she says she is furious at the CIA she means it. So fools reason: they need to do nothing since even Feinstein is upset. So fools do nothing. Meanwhile Feinstein delays, obscures, changes the subject--from torture (at a minimum) to hacking!--makes sure nobody looses their job, and somehow gets credit for standing up against Langley. You are a fucking fool if you think Feinstein was doing anything other than making sure that the status quo is 100% maintained. Like all those pyschos in DC, when she raises her voice and acts really indignant, she is telling her biggest lies. She lost her temper?! Lolol. Funniest shit I've heard all day.
+100
Explain to me why we still need the CIA (or for that matter, any other agency with a three letter acronym).
We don't, our handlers do.
http://newamerica-now.blogspot.com/2014/06/we-cannot-have-our-political....
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