Für den US-Geheimdienst CIA bleibt die Ausspähung eines Ausschusses im US-Senat wohl ohne Konsequenzen. Wie die New York Times berichtet, werde sich das zuständige Untersuchungsgremium offenbar gegen ein Bestrafung der Beteiligten aussprechen. Fünf CIA-Angestellte, die das Ausspionieren der Parlamentarier und ihrer Mitarbeiter angeordnet und durchgeführt hatten, waren zuvor identifiziert worden. Sie hatten das demnach als rechtmäßig verteidigt und erklärt, CIA-Chef John Brennan persönlich habe zumindest einige der Maßnahmen angeordnet.
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- Folterbericht: Ausspähung des Senats bleibt für CIA wohl ohne Konsequenzen (Heise Online, 22.12.2014)
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Im Frühjahr diesen Jahres war öffentlich geworden, dass die CIA jene Senatoren und ihre Mitarbeiter ausspioniert hatte, die im Auftrag des Parlaments die Foltermethoden des Geheimdiensts untersucht hatten. Wichtigstes Ziel waren jene Computer, an denen die Folter-Dokumente der CIA analysiert wurden. Bei einer Überwachung haben es die Geheimdienstler aber nicht belassen. Als Dianne Feinstein, die zuständige Vorsitzende des Geheimdienstausschusses, ihre schweren Vorwürfe gegen die CIA erhob, erklärte sie auch, auf den Computern seien sogar Dateien gelöscht worden. Mit diesem Eingriff in die Untersuchungen ihrer eigenen Vergehen habe die CIA die Gewaltenteilung verletzt. CIA-Chef Brennan entschuldigte sich später dafür.
siehe dazu:- Dianne Feinstein, CIA, NSA (Post, 09.08.2014)
Vor Tagen hat Feinstein im Senat in einer 40-Minuten-Rede der CIA vorgeworfen, von ihrem Komitee benutzte Computer durchsucht und mehr als 900 Dokumente „elektronisch entfernt“ zu haben. Besonders empört war sie über eine Anzeige von CIA-Rechtsberater Robert Eatinger beim US-Justizministerium gegen Mitarbeiter des Geheimdienstausschusses, die angeblich Geheimdokumente entwendet haben sollen. Eben dieser Eatinger sei von 2004 bis 2009 Rechtsberater des Anti-Terrorismus-Zentrums der CIA gewesen, des Teils der Behörde also, der das vom Komitee untersuchte Verhörprogramm gemanagt habe, so Feinstein. Sein Name komme mehr als 1.600-mal im Berichtsentwurf ihres Ausschusses vor. (Die Feinsinnige, Konrad Ege, der Freitag, 20.03.2014, Hervorhebungen und Link von mir)
Dianne Feinstein: CIA May Have Broken The Law To Spy On Senate Staff [4:28]
Veröffentlicht am 11.03.2014
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) delivered a devastating broadside against the CIA Tuesday, alleging that the agency was trying to intimidate Congress and may have broken the law in spying on Senate staffers.
Feinstein, head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, was responding to CIA charges that Senate staffers had hacked CIA computers to learn that the spy agency was in fact spying on the people charged with overseeing its activities. Those revelations surfaced last week, prompting the countercharge against the CIA, and a CIA complaint to the Justice Department.
But Feinstein, who is often a strong defender of the intelligence community, hammered the agency in a morning Senate floor speech, saying the CIA knew of every step the Intelligence Committee staffers took, and that the CIA provided all the documents that the agency later questioned.
To allege that staffers may have broken the law was dishonest, she said, and smacked of an attempt to bully civilians responsible for checking agency abuses.
"Our staff involved in this matter have the appropriate clearances, handled the sensitive material according to established procedures and practice to protect classified information, and were provided access to the [documents] by the CIA itself," Feinstein said. "As a result, there is no legitimate reason to allege to the Justice Department that Senate staff may have committed a crime. I view the [CIA's] acting counsel general's referral [to the Justice Department] as a potential effort to intimidate this staff, and I am not taking it lightly."
Feinstein also rattled her own saber, noting that the CIA official who referred the matter to the Justice Department was himself at the center of the very CIA interrogation techniques her committee is currently investigating. The Intelligence Committee has prepared a secret, 6,000-page report on the agency's interrogation programs that is expected to outline a number of illegal activities and bring into question the value of such programs.
The remarkable flare-up stems from an agreement between the CIA and the committee that the agency could monitor the committee's use of the agency's computers, which were provided to Senate staffers in a secure room at the CIA. Staffers were able to analyze millions of documents on the computers in order to create the report on CIA interrogation techniques.
Feinstein also said Tuesday that she is pushing the White House to find a way to release that classified 6,000-page report so that the public can learn what the CIA has done in its name.
Feinstein, head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, was responding to CIA charges that Senate staffers had hacked CIA computers to learn that the spy agency was in fact spying on the people charged with overseeing its activities. Those revelations surfaced last week, prompting the countercharge against the CIA, and a CIA complaint to the Justice Department.
But Feinstein, who is often a strong defender of the intelligence community, hammered the agency in a morning Senate floor speech, saying the CIA knew of every step the Intelligence Committee staffers took, and that the CIA provided all the documents that the agency later questioned.
To allege that staffers may have broken the law was dishonest, she said, and smacked of an attempt to bully civilians responsible for checking agency abuses.
"Our staff involved in this matter have the appropriate clearances, handled the sensitive material according to established procedures and practice to protect classified information, and were provided access to the [documents] by the CIA itself," Feinstein said. "As a result, there is no legitimate reason to allege to the Justice Department that Senate staff may have committed a crime. I view the [CIA's] acting counsel general's referral [to the Justice Department] as a potential effort to intimidate this staff, and I am not taking it lightly."
Feinstein also rattled her own saber, noting that the CIA official who referred the matter to the Justice Department was himself at the center of the very CIA interrogation techniques her committee is currently investigating. The Intelligence Committee has prepared a secret, 6,000-page report on the agency's interrogation programs that is expected to outline a number of illegal activities and bring into question the value of such programs.
The remarkable flare-up stems from an agreement between the CIA and the committee that the agency could monitor the committee's use of the agency's computers, which were provided to Senate staffers in a secure room at the CIA. Staffers were able to analyze millions of documents on the computers in order to create the report on CIA interrogation techniques.
Feinstein also said Tuesday that she is pushing the White House to find a way to release that classified 6,000-page report so that the public can learn what the CIA has done in its name.
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Amerika, das Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten! Freiheit und Demokratie? Nicht für die CIA. Und sie wird noch nicht mal dafür bestraft, daß sie auf die Verfassung scheißt!
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