Senator Feinstein, the document leaker
US Senator Dianne Feinstein (Mar 11) - "Feinstein Statement on Intelligence Committee’s CIA Detention, Interrogation Report": http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=db84e844-... Wherein Senator Feinstein states:
We have no way to determine who made the [CIA's] Internal Panetta Review documents available to the committee. Further, we don’t know whether the documents were provided intentionally by the CIA, unintentionally by the CIA, or intentionally by a whistle-blower.
...and then explains why Senate staffers exfiltrated the documents from the CIA's secure facility:
Unlike the official response, these Panetta Review documents were in agreement with the committee’s findings. That’s what makes them so significant and important to protect.
Looks like this information wanted to be free? Quite a story emerging here. gf -- Gregory Foster || gfoster@entersection.org @gregoryfoster <> http://entersection.com/
On 3/11/14 12:03 PM, Gregory Foster wrote:
US Senator Dianne Feinstein (Mar 11) - "Feinstein Statement on Intelligence Committee’s CIA Detention, Interrogation Report": http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=db84e844-...
Wherein Senator Feinstein states:
We have no way to determine who made the [CIA's] Internal Panetta Review documents available to the committee. Further, we don’t know whether the documents were provided intentionally by the CIA, unintentionally by the CIA, or intentionally by a whistle-blower.
...and then explains why Senate staffers exfiltrated the documents from the CIA's secure facility:
Unlike the official response, these Panetta Review documents were in agreement with the committee’s findings. That’s what makes them so significant and important to protect.
Looks like this information wanted to be free? Quite a story emerging here.
An unusual flurry of activity on the CIA's YouTube channel, including a newly posted video (from December 2013) of embattled CIA Director Brennan and his wife delivering truckloads of toys for tots: https://www.youtube.com/user/ciagov Must have been keeping that one in the black bag... gf -- Gregory Foster || gfoster@entersection.org @gregoryfoster <> http://entersection.com/
[effaustin cross-posting allowed to stand, but will likely get a bounce] U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 6, reads The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States. They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place. The "Speech or Debate" clause is central here. Sen. Feinstein made her accusations on the floor of the Senate. In the Washington style, her accusations are a declaration of war. The first effect will be that she no longer gets information feeds from the Agencies, which is to say from the Executive Branch. That is a big deal; recall that when asked about what a President Obama would mean to the country's policies, soon-to-be-ex-President Bush said "He'll be fine as soon as he's reading what I'm reading." --dan
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