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The CIA has released a redacted version of a report addressing its own accessing of Senate Intelligence Committee computers.
The report, released Wednesday, cleared agency officials of any wrongdoing, stating, “The Board found that, while this was clearly inappropriate, it was a mistake that did not reflect malfeasance, bad faith, or the intention to gain improper access to SSCI confidential, deliberative material.”
In response to the report, Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Dianne Feinstein issued a statement saying, “I'm disappointed that no one at the CIA will be held accountable."
"The decision was made to search committee computers, and someone should be found responsible for those actions," she added.
The Senate staff had been using computers at a CIA facility to investigate documents detailing the CIA's use of “enhanced interrogation techniques,” commonly referred to as torture, after 9/11. The torture methods included rectal feeding, sleep deprivation, stress positions, and waterboarding.
Those documents formed part of a 6,000 page report released in December 2014 which concluded that the CIA had carried out "brutal" interrogations of al-Qaida suspects.
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