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Is CIA A Shadow Government? video and pictures

Thursday, March 13, 2014 13:33
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John F. Kennedy once said he wanted to “splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds. ” He reached that conclusion after CIA officials, including Director Allen Dulles, had misled him on many of the planning details of the disastrous April 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion. With the revelations that the CIA has been aggressively obstructing the work of the Senate Intelligence Committee, even to the point of spying on Senate staff conducting a long overdo review of its “detention and interrogation” program, we see the CIA has not changed its ways.

The Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, called the committee’s current battle with the CIA “a defining moment for the oversight role of our intelligence committee . . . and whether we can be thwarted by those we oversee.”

“Besides the constitutional implications,” Feinstein noted, “the CIA’s search [of the committee staff's files] may also have violated the Fourth Amendment, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, as well as Executive Order 12333, which prohibits the CIA from conducting domestic searches or surveillance.” MOREHERE

 

 

 

 

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