PD m'dear, I smell a rat.

This is a United States Senate News Release of Diane Feinstein's statement on Intelligence Committee's CIA Detention, Interrogation Report. She claims that there has been a lot of misinformation in the news media about what has been going on about the "hacking" claims. Very interesting! I sure hope that information is declassified or somehow leaked. We all need to understand how criminal one of the nation's most powerful spy agency has undermined the laws of the United States. What was it they don't want us to know about? Must be pretty condemning. Now, the CIA is trying to claim that Feinstein's group broke the law. It's quite a battle of finger pointing. I sure hope something good comes out of this.

As I understand it, Congress, several years ago ordered the CIA to release their records and documents for the purpose of investigating them over the CIA Detention and Interrogation. The CIA responded by doing a massive unindexed document dump, 6.2 million records, of the requested information. This would make it very difficult to find CIA wrongdoing. Feinstein claims that her staff did not "hack" into CIA computers to obtain these documents as has been suggested in the press. The documents were identified using the search tool provided by the CIA to search the documents provided to the committee. There were also claims in the press and elsewhere that the markings on these documents should have caused the staff to stop reading them and turn them over to the CIA. Feinstein rejects that claim completely.

The following are select quotes from the statement:
note: this is long but Feinstein's statement is a lot longer.

Quote Feinstein:

"There are also claims in the press that the Internal Panetta Review documents, having been created in 2009 and 2010, were outside the date range of the committee’s document request or the terms of the committee study. This too is inaccurate."

"... the committee study includes significant information on the May 2011 Osama bin Laden operation, which obviously postdated the detention and interrogation program. At some time after the committee staff identified and reviewed the Internal Panetta Review documents, access to the vast majority of them was removed by the CIA."

"..some of these important parts that the CIA now disputes in our committee study are clearly acknowledged in the CIA’s own Internal Panetta Review. To say the least, this is puzzling. How can the CIA’s official response to our study stand factually in conflict with its own Internal Review?"

"Now, after noting the disparity between the official CIA response to the committee study and the Internal Panetta Review, the committee staff securely transported a printed portion of the draft Internal Panetta Review from the committee’s secure room at the CIA-leased facility to the secure committee spaces in the Hart Senate
Office Building."

"When the Internal Panetta Review documents disappeared from the committee’s computer system, this suggested once again that the CIA had removed documents already provided to the committee, in violation of CIA agreements and White House assurances that the CIA would cease such activities."

"As I have detailed, the CIA has previously withheld and destroyed information about its Detention and interrogation Program, including its decision in 2005 to destroy interrogation videotapes over the objections of the Bush White House and the Director of National Intelligence. Based on the information described above, there was a need to preserve and protect the Internal Panetta Review in the committee’s own secure spaces."

"Shortly thereafter, on January 15, 2014, CIA Director Brennan requested an emergency meeting to inform me and Vice Chairman Chambliss that without prior notification or approval, CIA personnel had conducted a “search” — that was John Brennan’s word — of the committee computers at the offsite facility. This search involved not only a search of documents provided to the committee by the CIA, but also a search of the ”stand alone” and “walled-off” committee network drive containing the committee’s own internal work product and communications."

"..the CIA just went and searched the committee’s computers. The CIA has still not asked the committee any questions about how the committee acquired the Panetta Review. In place of asking any questions, the CIA’s unauthorized search of the committee computers was followed by an allegation — which we have now seen repeated anonymously in the press — that the committee staff had somehow obtained the document through unauthorized or criminal means, perhaps to include hacking into the CIA’s computer network."

"As I have described, this is not true. The document was made available to the staff at the off site facility, and it was located using a CIA-provided search tool running a query of the information provided to the committee pursuant to its investigation."

"Besides the constitutional implications, the CIA’s search may also have violated 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."

http://cryptome.org/2014/03/feinstein-14-0311.pdf

Illinois, thanks to the Innocence Project, the group of Northwestern University journalism professors and their students that, since the early '90s, seeks to prove the innocence of the wrongly incarcerated and wrongly condemned, had released 18 inmates from death row before Governor George Ryan ended the death penalty in Illinois. The number of people excecuted in Illinois since the Supreme Court reinstated the practice in 1976 was 16. Thus there were more people proven to be wrongly condemned in Illinois since the reinstatement of the death penalty than there were executed. Fun factoid.

Time to take a blow torch to the Cold War! - AIW

Ken, the only the only thing crazier than thinking everything is a conspiracy is thinking everything is on the up and up, although I agree, it's more pleasant so it'll make you happier. I hear smoking opium is also a pleasant escapism.

But it really is funny, like Palindromedary said, here's a guy accusing everybody of paranoid conspiracy theorizing who started the thread saying Thom Hartmann is a Russian agent because he's on RT.

Ah! the old seppuku ploy, eh? Messy, though! Step 4 is the real killer. (ichi) (ni) (san) (shi!!! that hurt like the devil!!!) Don't try that at home, kids!

Make the Banksters seppuku since tonights topic is death!!! innocent untill proven guilty of course.

911 2jets 3 buildings lest we forget

Quote Aliceinwonderland:..Too often the "divine" you speak of translates to being a doormat or whipping post...

Easy FEAR FACTOR to the masses that's the attempt correct .

Nothing new, but I think it bears repeating even in the context of tonights blog. "Why do we kill people who kill people to show people that killing people is wrong?"

Perry has strong ties to evangelical groups.....commandment #6 ?????? Can't the folks from Austin do some sort of intervention on this poor soul?

stick I should say arrow is another poem of hope all the best Alice Cheers

I would like to dedicate this evenings poem to Alice may she have a Wonderland and an arrow too