Thread: Two Democrat Senators Call for Resignation of Obama’s CIA Director

Two Democrat Senators Call for Resignation of Obama’s CIA Director

Tim Brown August 3, 2014


On Thursday, Democrat Senators Mark Udall(D-CO) and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) called for the resignation of Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan following revelations from the Inspector General that the CIA was spying on Senate computers. Apparently it wasn't just Democrats who were upset either.

McClatchy reports, "The rare display of bipartisan fury followed a three-hour private briefing by Inspector General David Buckley. His investigation revealed that five CIA employees, two lawyers and three information technology specialists improperly accessed or "caused access" to a database that only committee staff were permitted to use."
Politico reports:

Administration officials briefed the Senate Intelligence Committee's membership on Thursday afternoon about an inspector general report that revealed CIA officials improperly accessed computers used by Senate staffers to research a 6,700-page report on the agency's Bush-era interrogation and detention practices.

And while Brennan called Senate Intelligence Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) to apologize for the CIA's actions, that mea culpa wasn't enough for Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.), a civil libertarian locked in a difficult reelection campaign against GOP Rep. Cory Gardner, and freshman Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.).

"At this point it would probably be better for the agency, frankly, if he did step aside. I think that the level of trust between the committee and the director has hit a new low," Heinrich told reporters. He said he had not spoken to Brennan recently.

As we reported back in March, Feinstein's hypocrisy was laid bare as she complained that her rights, which are supposed to be protected by the Fourth Amendment, were violated by Brannan's CIA, even though she defended government surveillance for all other Americans, claiming that government snooping on them shouldn't raise such a concern because, after all, they are trying to stop a terrorist attack and all the people snooping have been vetted.

Senator Udall said that the CIA demonstrated a "tremendous failure of leadership."
"I have no choice but to call for the resignation of CIA Director John Brennan. The CIA unconstitutionally spied on Congress by hacking into Senate Intelligence Committee computers. This grave misconduct not only is illegal, but it violates the U.S. Constitution's requirement of separation of powers," Udall said. "There must be consequences."
I'm doubting Udall will get a resignation. After all, it has been alleged, based on eyewitnesses and former FBI Agent John Guandolo that Brennan converted to Islam in the 1990's while in Saudi Arabia, that he is a "bully of epic dimensions," and that he got his position via blackmail, possibly having the records that prove Obama is ineligible to hold office. In other words, Brennan is one that will not just be pushed around easily with words. It will take a lot more than that.
Keep in mind that this was Obama's assassination czar and that he and his agency stand accused using of tactics to keep agents silent regarding what took place in Benghazi. If these Democrat jersey wearing Senators believe he's just going to issue a resignation letter, they have another thing coming. However, I do agree they are right to call for it, they just need to do it with something that has a little more teeth in it than mere words.
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God for bid they are spying on the Senate computers but it is just fine for them to spy on ours.....

'Torture report’ delayed in CIA, Senate fight over redactions





By Julian Hattem - 08/04/14 11:09 AM EDT
The Obama administration’s attempt to redact some portions of an upcoming report on “enhanced interrogation techniques” is drawing ire from Capitol Hill and could delay the release of the detailed analysis for months.
That’s likely to increase hostilities between the Senate Intelligence Committee and the CIA, which are already riding high after the spy agency admitted to snooping on some Senate staffers in the run-up to the report’s release.



The Senate panel has been working for months to release an unclassified executive summary of its 6,800-page analysis of the Bush administration-era techniques, which some are calling the “torture report.”It was originally expected in coming days, but on Friday the committee received edits from the administration that redacted a significant chunk of the text in order to protect U.S. intelligence and security. Now, senators are pushing back, arguing that the redactions make the report essentially unreadable.
In the meantime, the report will be delayed for the foreseeable future.
“We need additional time to understand the basis for these redactions and determine their justification,” committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said in a statement late on Friday. “Therefore the report will be held until further notice and released when that process is completed.”
About 15 percent of the report was censored by intelligence officials, in a move that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said was critical to protect “sensitive classified information.”
“We are confident that the declassified document delivered to the committee will provide the public with a full view of the committee’s report on the detention and interrogation program, and we look forward to a constructive dialogue with the committee,” he added in a statement.
Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Intelligence panel who has supported reining in some agencies’ powers, said that the changes made the analysis entirely unintelligible.
“Try reading a novel with 15 percent of the words blacked out — it can't be done properly,” he said in a statement on Sunday evening. “Redactions are supposed to remove names or anything that could compromise sources and methods, not to undermine the source material so that it is impossible to understand.”
Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) also expressed concerns about the “excessive redactions” and said he was “committed to working with Chairman Feinstein to declassify the Senate Intelligence Committee's study to the fullest extent possible, correct the record on the CIA's brutal and ineffective detention and interrogation program, and ensure the CIA learns from its past mistakes.”
The Senate committee’s report has been eagerly anticipated by critics of the interrogation practices, such as waterboarding, which many consider to be forms of torture. The analysis is expected to show that the tactics were harsher and more systemic than was previously understood and did not provide meaningful contributions to the fight against terrorists.
That has ruffled some feathers among Republicans like panel Vice Chairman Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), who on Sunday chided it as a partisan “mistake.”
President Obama banned many of the practices when he took office and on Friday insisted that it was critical for the nation to closely scrutinize the controversial program’s history.
“I was very clear that, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, we did some things that were wrong,” he said in a press conference. “We did a whole lot of things that were right, but we tortured some folks. We did some things that were contrary to our values.”
“My hope is that this report reminds us once again that the character of our country has to be remembered in part not by what we do when things are easy, but what we do when things are hard,” he added.
The move comes on the heels of the CIA’s admission last week that five officials had spied on Senate staffers’ drives and emails during their ongoing work to compile and release an unclassified version of the report.
CIA Director John Brennan initially issued a resounding denial to the allegations when Feinstein first raised them in March, and confirmation of the charges has caused some lawmakers to call for him to resign.
So far, Obama has stood by the spy chief.
On Friday, he said that he still had “full confidence” in Brennan and pointed out that the CIA director had originally called for the internal watchdog to get involved.




Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/technology/214208-torture-report-delayed-in-cia-senate-fight-over-redactions#ixzz39RA8hGPP



Wow they sure have their panties in a twit..so much for ours though..

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