The Conservative Cave
Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: zeitgeist on January 15, 2015, 08:29:04 PM
-
Line right up and pitch a ring ladies and gentlemen at who knew what when where and why. But make no mistake O'blameless knew nothing. Circle the wagons.
Major damage control is underway at the DUmp and probably other places as well as the truth of the Senate staff CIA document theft bungling is beginning to oozing out. This is why the report was rushed out and trumped so loudly by DiFi as a pre emptive strike. Staffers should be going to jail. Think worse than Watergate crimes or the Plame affair.
http://upload.democraticunderground.com/1014989355
okaawhatever (6,636 posts)
White House Knew Of CIA Snooping on Senate, Report Says
Source: HuffPo
WASHINGTON -- 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.
SNIP
The following day, the lawyer wrote that Brennan informed him that he had “discussed the possible security breach with ... McDonough.†The director reiterated his previous orders that the lawyer should do whatever was needed to find out how staffers had accessed the documents. Although Brennan apparently told the lawyer he wanted to inform Feinstein and the Senate Intelligence Committee of the computer search as soon as possible, the CIA chief said that conversation couldn't happen until the agency was sure of how committee staffers had accessed the document.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/15/cia-senate-spying_n_6478960.html
Cutting to the chase, most DUmmies have clue none about guarding classified information. Nor the problem with unauthorized leaking of the same.
TwilightGardener (44,007 posts)
1. Am I the only one who thinks this is deadly serious and troubling
for the Obama Presidency? There was almost no response on the GD thread about this. I only hope McDonough or Brennan didn't tell the President that the CIA was planning to spy on the Senate--because that would seem to be a grave executive branch overreach of power, to use the CIA against the legislative branch (BECAUSE it was exercising its proper oversight of the CIA's activities, no less).
Typical comments one will find at the DUmp, like most thieves, not the least bit concerned they stole, only that they got caught. The subliminal message is that the self righteous staffers where well within their rights to compromise security standards for the greater good. The means are always justified by the ends to a liberal social justice warrior. Damn the Constitution, full speed ahead.
And oh, Obie knew nuttin. He was sucking suds at the 19th hole I guess.
-
They wanted to know what was there to make sure no democrat was mentioned.