CIA's Senate Ally Accuses Agency of Spying on Congress

The Central Intelligence Agency may have just lost one of its closest allies on Capitol Hill

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who has long been one of the most staunch defenders of the U.S. intelligence community, accused the CIA of snooping through congressional computers in an act of intimidation.

Feinstein, who chairs the Senate intelligence committee, said the CIA had removed important documents from congressional computers on which staffers had been compiling a report on the agency's detention program that took place during President George W. Bush's administration. The senator said the CIA may have violated the Fourth Amendment, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the committee's right to executive oversight and an executive order that prohibits the agency from conducting domestic searches and surveillance. Read more...