After long-standing denials, the CIA has finally admitted that its personnel “improperly accessed” computers belonging to the Senate Intelligence Committee to spy on the details of a report they were compiling on the CIA’s use of torture.
Improperly accessed in this case means illegally hacked, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D – CA) dubbed the spying a violation of the “understanding” the committee had with the CIA as well as a violation of constitutional separation of powers.
Other Senators concurred, with Saxby Chambliss (R – GA) calling it a “very, very serious” matter and several urging the ouster of CIA Director John Brennan.
Brennan, who publicly denied that any such spying took place as recently as March, has now issued an apology to the committee for “misleading” them on the issue.
The Justice Department, as always, is shrugging off the news of Executive Branch power abuse, insisting they would not conduct any criminal investigation over the matter. The White House likewise dismissed the story, praising Brennan for his “instrumental role” in the global war on terror.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D – CA) refused to publicly criticize the CIA for spying on Congress for fear of retaliation, noting they “really come after you” if you talk about them in public adding “there’s a price to pay.”
Will John Brennan be fired by the Obama regime? Of course not. Will he be brought up on perjury charges for lying to congress? No, that's only for the non-elite.
Does anyone do anything at Justice? How many lazy bums are getting paid hundreds of thousands to do nothing. I bet they're going after law-abiding citizens and obsessing about homosexuals.
Pelosi's comment can be interpreted as: "We live in a police state now, you better not speak ill of it, or else."
The price you pay now is having your private investigations snooped on. When does it become "neutralization" ? http://www.audioenglish.org/dictionary/neutraliza…
What a thoroughly pathetic comment Pelosi's. What's the lesson, threaten her and she's yours? Truth be known Pelosi has just revealed the core of her being: Fear. Just what we need to free our country of the filth that own bacteria like her.
The CIA threatened to reveal the cost of her government-paid botox treatments. The horror!
Send this BOZO to the circus before someone gets hurt…. He NEEDS a net….
No wonder non in the senate disagree or want for CIA to be closed, CIA simply knows to much of senators privet or political or anything in between life. Ron Paul is the only one demanding for CIA to be closed because he is a honest man and CIA have nothing on him, and I don't care if he is from the right or left.
This is worse than Watergate. Where are the special prosecutors? Need one for Brennan and one for Eric cover-ups-are-my-mission Holder.
"…for “misleading” them on the issue…"
Is that the same as a lie? Or did he go to the same school as "least untruthful manner" Clapper?
Every day it gets a little worse…. A little crazier!! Pathetic suck-up morons only in it for their OWN gratification…. Billions, trillions on projects that benefit all the welfare cases who our your tax money to spy on us, buy our elected leaders…. It will only end when they have destroyed America and it's once constitutional form of government… The entire enterprise is rotten, from the sadistic cops to the power mad Supreme court… Did I forget "O" …… Our half Machiavellian psychopath leader and his band of Trojan whores, like this clown Brennan….. What was it Ron Paul said..???
Here is William Binney, the highest placed whistle blower in intelligence before Snoden…… He tells us what it's all about….
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The dragnet spying agency has become the second government within the USG, which is nothing new they have operated this way since Vietnam war and now the USG/senate either have to close it down or give them more power to do what they do 10 times over. What people should ask is why Barack Hussein Obama appointed John Brennan as head of CIA knowing who he is and knowing his background.