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Document, they believe undercut a lot of the cias denials and they knew the cia wished the senate hadnt had access to. senate staffers, knowing that, took that document. they took it physically out of that secure location in northern virginia and they apparently took it here to the hart senate office building in washington, d.c., one of secure facilities in that building designed to handle secret intelligence information. apparently inside that building, they then locked it up in a safe. >> the ...

Reference, chris, the panetta review. i think its actually important to have some context about what this was and what this wasnt. at the time director panetta said hey, lets keep track inside the cia of every document, all the thousands, hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of documents that were being provided to the congressional committee. lets keep track of them. lets summarize them. lets write-up short gists of those documents. at a certain point when attorney general holder authorized a ...

Problem. when california senator dianne feinstein took to the floor yesterday to accuse the central intelligence agency of spying on the senate intelligence committee and secretly removing controversial documents, one of the darkest chapters in american history was reopened. right in broad daylight. in the hours since the allegations were first made public, a crisis over constitutionality and the separation of powers has unfolded. one between the cia and the very body designed to oversee it. b...

Surveillance. >> this story began when diane feinstein became the chair of the senate intelligence committee in 2009, the first year of the obama presidency, in a strong bipartisan vote the committee decided to do a full review of the cias so-called detention and interrogation program. president obamas new cia director leon panetta suggested that for the security of the documents involved, the committee staff would be examining panetta and the cia would provide a special secure location in north...

Cia have functioned basically as partners. colluding to withhold information about the activities of the agency from the american people. maybe now that theyve declared war on each other, well actually learn about whats been happening in our name. joining me now is former cia analyst, nada bakos, a targeting officer on the cias team in iraq hunting for the now deceased al qaeda linked militant abu musab al zarqawi. nada, what is your reaction of what played out today? >> chris, i think you summe...

Is pushing for parts of the report to be declassified. the white house says it supports her effort. the cia doesnt agree. last summer, cia director john brennan wrote 122-page rebuttal challenging specific findings and the reports overall conclusion about the programs value. in other words, the senate committee found that torture was ineffective. the presidents cia chief doesnt agree with that finding. members of the senate intelligence committee fought back. in a hearing late last year, senator...

Heard things about her remarks but until i have a chance to actually take a look at them and talk with her, i reserve judgment. >> are you prepared to have the senate disclose everything that happened on your watch when you were involved in the interrogation practices during the bush years. >> there is a need for the senate to conclude its work and were going to work with them. there have to be appropriate steps taken to make sure that we protect individuals that are involved and to make sure th...

Msnbc is the place for politics, and on the hill today senator dianne feinstein made major waves when she accused the cia of violating federal law. the head of the senate intelligence committee said the agency searched staff computers for internal document related to the interrogation program. >> i have grave concerns that the cias search may well have violated the separation of powers principles embodied in the united states constitution. i have asked for an apology and a recognition that this ...

Of committee computers. i have grave concerns that the cias search may well have violated the separation of powers principles embodied in the united states constitution. >> the actions may not only have been unconstitutional, but an attempt to undermine her panel, which is investigating controversial detention and interrogation program. she also defended the committee from allegations that it obtained documents illegally. >> there is no legitimate reason to allege to the justice department that ...

Agency of secretly removing documents from the computer system used by her staff at an agency facility in northern virginia where the intelligence committee was working on an investigation of the cia detention and interrogation program. take a listen. >> without prior notification or approval, cia personnel had conducted a search that was john brennans word, of the committee computers. i have grave concerns that the cia search may well have violated the separation of powers, principles embodied ...