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WASHINGTON. — The Central Intelligence Agency secretly removed classified documents from a computer system used by Congress, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California) said yesterday, and may have violated the United States Constitution as a result.Feinstein — the chair of the United States Senate Intelligence Committee — critiqued the CIA’s supposed conduct on the floor of the US Capitol Building and said that the agency’s alleged actions may have violated the constitutional principle of congressional oversight, as well as both the Fourth Amendment and a presidential executive order that prohibits the CIA from engaging in domestic search and surveillance.
The chairperson’s unexpected remarks came amid multiple requests for the Department of Justice to investigate allegations of misconduct between the chairperson’s panel and the secretive spy agency.
According to the Associated Press, Sen Feinstein said the CIA improperly searched a stand-alone computer network at the agency’s Langley, Virginia, headquarters that was put in place so that Intelligence Committee staffers could view sensitive documents. — RT.
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