CIA's
Senate Ally Accuses Agency of
Spying on Congress
The Central Intelligence
Agency may have just lost one of its closest allies on Capitol Hill
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who has long been one of the most
staunch defenders of the U.S. intelligence community, accused the CIA of s**oping through congressional computers in an act of intimidation.
Feinstein, who chairs the
Senate intelligence committee, said the CIA had ******* important documents from congressional computers on which staffers had been compiling a report on the agency's detention program that took place during President George W. Bush's administration. The senator said the CIA may have violated the Fourth Amendment, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the committee's right to executive oversight and an executive order that prohibits the
Agency from conducting domestic searches and surveillance.
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