Internal CIA report concludes agency spied on Senate computers

Internal CIA report concludes agency spied on Senate computers
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Some time ago I wrote on Senator Dianne Feinstein's (D-Calif.) battle with the CIA. She is chair of the Senate Select Committee on intelligence, and in a dramatic speech on the floor of the Senate she accused them of spying on her staffers in an attempt to sandbag the committee's report on the CIA's torture program.

McClatchy reports today that an investigation by the CIA Inspector General has largely confirmed Feinstein's account:

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Ryan Cooper

Ryan Cooper is a national correspondent at TheWeek.com. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and the Washington Post.