Friday, January 16, 2015

CIA's Sham Self Investigation

The outrageous whitewash issued yesterday by the CIA panel John Brennan hand-picked to lead the investigation into his agency’s spying on Senate staffers is being taken seriously by the elite Washington media, which is solemnly reporting that officials have been “cleared” of any “wrongdoing“.

But what the report really does is provide yet more evidence of Brennan’s extraordinary impunity.

The panel concluded that CIA officials acted reasonably by scouring Senate computer drives in early 2014 when faced with a “potential security breach”. (That “breach” had allowed Senate staffers investigating CIA torture to access, more than three years earlier, a handful of documents Brennan didn’t want them to see.)

But the CIA yesterday also released a redacted version of the full report of an earlier investigation by the CIA’s somewhat more independent inspector general’s office. And between the two reports, it is now more clear than ever that Brennan was the prime mover behind a hugely inappropriate assault on the constitutional separation of powers, and continues to get away with it.

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/01/15/john-brennans-latest-fuck-you/

The same applies to FBI, which always clears itself of any wrongdoing after shooting a citizen, and the Federal Reserve System, which has never allowed outsiders to audit its activities.

Our government is incapable of properly investigating and correcting its own wrongdoers.

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