An independent board found that CIA officers acted reasonably when they searched the computers of Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s aides during her time as the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee. CBS News,
The board’s report amounted to a remarkable turnabout in a long running dispute between Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the senior Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, and CIA Director John Brennan about whether Feinstein’s aides acted appropriately when they removed CIA documents they deemed highly incriminating — documents the CIA considered an internal review to which the Senate was not entitled.
The aides took the documents out of a Virginia facility run by the CIA which had been set up to allow Senate investigators to review classified material. The documents were redacted and taken to the Senate’s secure facility in the Hart building near the Capitol. They were not used in the Senate report on CIA interrogations, which was harshly critical of the agency…
The documents in question were stored on a shared drive in the Virginia facility. The system contained extremely sensitive documents, including the true names of covert operatives.
According to the board’s report, a message flashed on the screen that said, “Your use of this system may be monitored and you have no expectation of privacy.”
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