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• "the Senate Intelligence Committee - approved to conduct an expansive - and full review !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

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• "of CIA’s - detention program !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "the committee’s preference was - for the CIA to turn over - all responsive documents !"

 

 

 

 

• "to the committee’s office - as had been done - in previous committee investigations !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "director Panetta - proposed an alternative arrangement - provided literally millions of pages !"

 

 

 

 

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• "of operational cables - internal emails - memos - and other documents !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "pursuant to the committee’s - document requests - at a secure location !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "the committee agreed - but insisted on several conditions - and protections !"

 

 

 

 

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• "to ensure the integrity - of this congressional investigation !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "per an exchange of letters - then-vice chairman Bond - then-director Panetta !"

 

 

 

 

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• "and she - agreed in an exchange of letters !"

 

 

 

 

 

• "that the CIA was to provide a - "stand-alone computer system" - with a "network drive"  !"

 

 

 

 

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• ""segregated from the other networks" - for the committee !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "that would only be accessed - by information technology personnel - at the CIA !"

 

 

 

 

 

 

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• "the CIA - then had hired a team - of outside contractors !"

 

 

 

 

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• "who otherwise would not had had - access to these sensitive documents !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "read - multiple times - each of the 6.2 million pages - of documents produced !"

 

 

 

 

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• "before provided them - to fully-cleared committee staff - conducting the committee’s oversight work !"

 

 

 

 

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• "the CIA started - making documents available electronically - to the committee staff !"

 

 

 

 

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• "at the leased facility - the number of pages ran quickly - to the thousands - tens of thousands !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "the hundreds of thousands - and then into the millions !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "the documents - that were provided - came without any index !"

 

 

 

 

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• "and without - organizational structure !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "it was a true - "document dump"  !"

 

 

 

 

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• "that the committee staff - had to go through - and make sense of !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "first - they asked the CIA - to provide an electronic search tool !"

 

 

 

 

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• "second - when the staff found a document - that was particularly important !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "or that might be referenced - in the final report - they would often print it !"

 

 

 

 

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• "or make a copy of the file - on their computer - so they could easily find it again !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "there were thousands - of such documents - in the committee’s secure spaces !"

 

 

 

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• "then the committee staff - noticed - that certain documents !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "that had been provided - for the committee’s review !"

 

 

 

 

• "were no longer - accessible !"

 

 

 

 

 

 

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• "initially the CIA personnel - which was approached by the staff - at the offsite location !"

 

 

 

 

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• "had denied - that this documents - had been removed !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "then CIA personnel had blamed - information technology personnel !"

 

 

 

 

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• "who were almost all contractors - for removing the documents - themselves !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "without direction or authority - after a series of meetings - she learned that on two occasions !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "CIA personnel - electronically removed - committee access !"

 

 

 

 

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• "to CIA documents - after providing them - to the committee !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "this was done without the knowledge - or approval - of committee members or staff !"

 

 

 

 

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• "and in violation - of the written agreements !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "that included draft versions - of what was called the - "Internal Panetta Review"  !"

 

 

 

 

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• "she believed these documents - were written by CIA personnel - to summarize !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "and analyze the materials - that had been provided to the committee - for its review !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "in fact - the documents appeared to be based - on the same information !"

 

 

 

 

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• "already provided to the committee - what was unique !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "was their analysis - and acknowledgement - of significant - CIA wrongdoing !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "after the committee staff identified - and reviewed the - "Internal Panetta Review" - documents !"

 

 

 

 

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• "access - to the vast majority of them - was removed by the CIA !"

 

 

 

 

 

 

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• "the "Internal Panetta Review" summary - corroborated critical information !"

 

 

 

 

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• "in the committee’s - 6,300-page study !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "that the CIA’s official response - either objected to - denied - minimized - or ignored !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "unlike the official response - of the CIA - these Panetta Review documents !"

 

 

 

 

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• "were in agreement - with the committee’s findings !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "that was what made them - so significant - and important to protect !"

 

 

 

 

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• "when the "Internal Panetta Review" documents - disappeared from the committee’s - computer system !"

 

 

 

 

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• "shortly thereafter - CIA director Brennan - requested an emergency meeting !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "claimed CIA personnel - had conducted a - "search"  !"

 

 

 

 

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• "that was John Brennan’s word - of the committee computers - at the offsite facility !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "this "search" also involved - the "stand alone" - and "walled-off" - committee network drive !"

 

 

 

 

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• "containing the committee’s - own internal work product - and communications !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "based on what director Brennan - had informed her - she had grave concerns !"

 

 

 

 

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• "that the CIA - may have violated - the separation !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "of powers principles - embodied in the Constitution !"

 

 

 

 

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• "including the speech - and debate clause !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "and it may have undermined - the constitutional framework - essential !"

 

 

 

 

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• "to effective congressional oversight - of intelligence activities !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "as well as Executive Order 12333 - which prohibits the CIA !"

 

 

 

 

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• "from conducting domestic searches - or surveillance !"

 

 

 

 

 

 

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• "the final revisions to the report - were made !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

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• "so that parts of it - could be declassified - and released to the people !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "of CIA - programmes !"

 

 

 

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• "that never - never - never - should have existed !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "it is about the oversight - of the intelligence community !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "the Congress - must respond - in a responsibleful way !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

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• "where the intelligence committee - is effectively - in monitoring !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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