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grasswire

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Fri Jan 16, 2015, 10:11 PM Jan 2015

Andrew Sullivan: CIA Kicks Its Outgoing IG In The Nuts

http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2015/01/15/the-cia-kicks-its-outgoing-ig-in-the-nuts/


Jan 15 2015 @ 12:07pm

I wrote a little about this yesterday, but the actual details of the fallout of the CIA’s spying on its Senate overseers are jaw-dropping. The CIA “Accountability Review Board” (try not to burst out laughing) put out a report over some Senators’ objections exonerating everyone at the CIA and castigating the CIA’s out-going inspector general, David Buckley, for finding fault with the spying on the Senate ordered by John Brennan, Obama’s duplicitous, self-serving CIA chief. Buckley announced he was quitting only last week.

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Andrew Sullivan: CIA Kicks Its Outgoing IG In The Nuts (Original Post) grasswire Jan 2015 OP
If this Opening Post was true, it would indicate the CIA is overstepping their authority Jeffersons Ghost Jan 2015 #1
NSA is the National Spy Agency blkmusclmachine Jan 2015 #2
Actually, according to most news sources, FBI and NSA agents were ordered to spy on US citizens... Jeffersons Ghost Jan 2015 #3

Jeffersons Ghost

(15,235 posts)
1. If this Opening Post was true, it would indicate the CIA is overstepping their authority
Fri Jan 16, 2015, 10:23 PM
Jan 2015

Obviously, only the National Security Agency and Chinese satellite teams are allowed to spy on US Senators and Congress-people.

Jeffersons Ghost

(15,235 posts)
3. Actually, according to most news sources, FBI and NSA agents were ordered to spy on US citizens...
Fri Jan 16, 2015, 10:54 PM
Jan 2015

NSA and FBI ntelligence gathering activities included spying on senators and congress-critters; however, unlike FBI agents, NSA teams were chastised in media, then ordered to cease and desist.

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