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Date: November 27, 2023 at 07:54:45
From: aqira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: FOIA release: Senator Dianne Feinstein Communications with the CIA |
URL: https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/senator-dianne-feinstein-communications-with-the-cia/#google_vignette |
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John Greenewald, Jr.:
New #FOIA: It took more than 9 years to get a small batch of
correspondence letters between the now late Senator Dianne Feinstein and
the CIA.
So weird when requests take THAT long.
Take a look at what came up at:
Senator Dianne Feinstein Communications with the CIA
John GreenewaldNOVEMBER 27, 2023
The following documents are communications between the office of Senator
Dianne Feinstein and the CIA.
Document Archive
Senator Dianne Feinstein Communications with the CIA [38 Pages, 9.5MB] –
In this Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) release, documents were disclosed
that shed light on the communications between the office of the late Senator
Dianne Feinstein and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The FOIA
request, filed on March 14, 2014, sought to uncover communications from
January 1, 2014, through circa March 2013. The CIA, after a comprehensive
search, found seven documents, of which two were released in full and five
with redactions due to FOIA exemptions.
A central theme in these documents is the respect for the Constitution’s
separation of powers, as highlighted in a letter dated January 27, 2014, from
the CIA Director. This letter acknowledges the critical importance of this
principle for the effective functioning and oversight of government
operations.
The correspondence also reveals concerns raised by Senator Feinstein
regarding unauthorized searches conducted by the CIA. In a letter, Feinstein
describes the CIA’s actions at an offsite facility assigned exclusively to the
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) staff. These searches were
to locate specific documents related to the CIA Detention and Interrogation
Program. Feinstein underscored the potential constitutional issues arising
from these unauthorized searches, indicating a possible breach of the
separation of powers.
The matter escalated when Senator Feinstein, in a letter dated January 17,
2014, requested the CIA to suspend all searches of the Committee network.
This request was subsequently agreed upon by the CIA, aligning with
previous written agreements between the agency and the Committee.
Further emphasizing the seriousness of the issue, the SSCI, on March 13,
2014, voted to formally request detailed responses from the CIA regarding
their search of the computer network at the CIA-leased facility. This was in
the context of the Committee’s investigation into the CIA’s Detention and
Interrogation Program.
Overall, the FOIA release provides a rare glimpse into the interactions
between a key Senate oversight committee and the CIA. It highlights the
complexities and sensitivities involved in maintaining legal and constitutional
boundaries in the realm of intelligence and national security.
released documents:
https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/cia/F-2014-01062.pdf
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Date: November 27, 2023 at 09:10:28
From: blindhog 6th sense, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re the Leadership of the CIA, Some More Food for Thought |
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From theintercept.com
"IN 1974 CALL TO ABOLISH CIA, SANDERS FOLLOWED
IN FOOTSTEPS OF JFK, TRUMAN
John F. Kennedy famously described his desire
to "splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces
and scatter it into the winds" after the
disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.
Jon Schwarz
February 22 2016, 6:13 p.m.
According to an article in Politico, Bernie
Sanders, during his 1974 campaign for the
Senate on Vermont’s Liberty Union Party
ticket, called the Central Intelligence Agency
“a dangerous institution that has got to go.”
Sanders complained that the CIA was only
accountable to “right-wing lunatics who use it
to prop up fascist dictatorships.”
Jeremy Bash, a former CIA chief of staff who
is now an adviser to Hillary Clinton’s
campaign, told reporter Michael Crowley that
Sanders’ comment “reinforces the conclusion
that he’s not qualified to be commander in
chief.” Bash explained: “Abolishing the CIA in
the 1970s would have unilaterally disarmed
America during the height of the Cold War and
at a time when terrorist networks across the
Middle East were gaining strength.” Bash was
chief of staff for Leon Panetta at both the
CIA and Defense Department, and now runs a
consulting firm called Beacon Global
Strategies.
But Sanders’ position is not that radical:
Many prominent politicians, including two
previous Democratic commanders in chief, have
called for the CIA to be dismantled or
severely constrained.
John F. Kennedy famously described his desire
to “splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces
and scatter it into the winds” after the
disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. Peter
Kornbluh points out in his book Bay of Pigs
Declassified that the State Department at that
same time proposed the CIA be stripped of its
covert action capacity and renamed. However,
the CIA escaped any serious repercussions —
partly because, as Kornbluh explains, the
CIA’s then-director, John McCone, made sure
that most of the copies of a damning report on
the Bay of Pigs by the agency’s own inspector
general were literally burned.
Then in 1963, after Kennedy’s assassination,
Harry Truman wrote a newspaper column
explaining that “I never had any thought that
when I set up the CIA that it would be
injected into peacetime cloak and dagger
operations. … I, therefore, would like to see
the CIA be restored to its original assignment
as the intelligence arm of the president … and
that its operational duties be terminated or
properly used elsewhere.”
Beyond the two presidents, Truman’s Secretary
of State Dean Acheson wrote in his 1969
memoirs that upon the CIA’s creation he “had
the gravest forebodings about this
organization and warned the president that as
set up neither he, the National Security
Council, nor anyone else would be in a
position to know what it was doing or to
control it.”
In 1975 — that is, after Sanders’ statement —
a congressional investigation of the CIA by
senators including Walter Mondale and Gary
Hart declared that “policy and procedural
barriers are presently inadequate to insure
that any covert operation is absolutely
essential to the national security. These
barriers must be tightened and raised or
covert action should be abandoned as an
instrument of foreign policy.” (My italics.
The Politico article does mention and quote
the investigation’s findings.)
In both 1991 and 1995, then-Sen. Daniel
Moynihan, D-N.Y., called for the CIA to be
abolished. Hillary Clinton would later be
elected to Moynihan’s senate seat, and on his
death she stated, “We have lost a great
American, an extraordinary senator, an
intellectual and a man of passion and
understanding about what really makes this
country great.”
IMO, the leadership in the CIA is descended in
ideology from the leadership in the OSS, whose
ideology was the preservation of the ideology
of the Third Reich, hense, most recently we've
see the same unencumbered tactics of the
Hitler like brown shirt activities of BLM,
ANTIFA, government agency hired J6
infiltrators and provocateurs, and paid bribes
(maybe even killings) of medical analysts re
the secret labs and the human manipulation in
the creation of Covid-19*.
*from nypost.com
"CIA tried to pay off analysts to bury
findings that COVID lab leak was likely:
whistleblower
By Josh Christenson
Published Sep. 12, 2023, 10:38 a.m. ET"
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Date: November 27, 2023 at 09:20:58
From: blindhog 6th sense, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Isn't it Interesting That the Most Likely Winner of Moynihan's Seat... |
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...would have been the son of the man who
wanted to splinter the CIA, John F Kennedy Jr,
but for his untimely death...hmmm
Then, let's not forget how the insiders in the
DNC seemingly colluded with Hillary to insure
her win against Sanders...hmmm
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