Feinstein publicly accuses CIA of spying on Senate computers - LAT

The ironies in this story are delicious. Even the CIA response to the committee is "classified".

http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-feinstein-cia-20140311,0,4351864.story#axzz2vfVvPz6Z

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, escalated a behind-the-scenes dispute with the CIA by publicly accusing the spy agency of secretly searching a Senate computer system, an act she said undermines congressional intelligence oversight and may have violated the law.

The expanding dispute has opened a rift between the CIA and the Senate committee that oversees it and often has defended it. Already, some CIA officers could face criminal prosecution as a result of a Justice Department investigation of the incident.

At some point during their work, Senate staff members gained access to the draft of an internal review the CIA had done of the interrogations. Senators say that internal review, which remains classified, was far more critical of the CIA than the agency’s official responses to their questions had been.

Feinstein’s comments raise the stakes of the dispute that has surrounded the committee's study of the CIA's actions. The committee report on interrogation practices has not been made public, but people who have read it say it amounts to a blistering indictment of the CIA program that many consider to have involved torture.