Infosecurity: Senator Dianne Feinstein, head of the Senate Intelligence Committee that oversees the US intelligence services, took to the floor Tuesday and denounced the CIA. Her actions are all the more stunning given her general support of the NSA’s mass surveillance programs – but it immediately shows signs of the very fear she expressed: a battle for supremacy between Congress and the CIA.
“I come to the Senate floor reluctantly,” she said; but “the increasing amount of inaccurate information circulating now cannot be allowed to stand unanswered.” The root of the issue lies within two ‘reports’ – her committee’s 6000+ report into the “CIA [torture and interrogation] program that never, never, never should have existed;” and the internal CIA comments, now known as the ‘Panetta review,’ that seem to support her committee’s findings and go against the official CIA conclusions.
