John Brennan Faces Calls to Resign After CIA Admits to Spying on Senate Torture Probe — Transcript

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1. 0:04the allegations of you know ci hacking
2. 0:07into you know senate computers nothing
3. 0:09could be further from the truth i mean
4. 0:10we wouldn't do that i mean that's that's
5. 0:13that's just beyond the uh you know the
6. 0:15scope of reason in terms of what we see
7. 0:17when the facts come out on this i think
8. 0:19a lot of people who are claiming that
9. 0:21there has been this tremendous sort of
10. 0:23spying and monitoring and hacking will
11. 0:25be proved wrong well cia director john
12. 0:29brennan reversed his stance this week
13. 0:31after an internal cia inquiry found the
14. 0:33spying indeed took place with the
15. 0:35involvement of 10 agency employees
16. 0:38brennan apologized to lawmakers in a
17. 0:40briefing earlier this week the cas also
18. 0:42retracted counter-allegations that
19. 0:44senate staffers illegally remove
20. 0:46classified information from a top-secret
21. 0:48facility the white house is standing by
22. 0:50brennan citing president obama's quote
23. 0:52great confidence in his leadership but
24. 0:54at least two members of the senate
25. 0:56intelligence committee democrats mark
26. 0:58udall of colorado and martin heinrich of
27. 1:00new mexico are calling for brennan's
28. 1:02resignation talk about this revelation
29. 1:05that you just exposed
30. 1:07so um after all of
31. 1:09this what had been this behind the
32. 1:12scenes battle unprecedented battle
33. 1:14between uh the uh cia and its senate
34. 1:17overseers apparently john brennan asked
35. 1:20his uh inspector general
36. 1:23david buckley to look into senator
37. 1:25feinstein's allegations that the cia had
38. 1:29in fact
39. 1:31without authorization and in breach of
40. 1:33an agreement with the senate staff had
41. 1:35intruded into a database that was for
42. 1:38the use by the senate staff only
43. 1:40apparently his or his david buckley came
44. 1:43back with his findings that a
45. 1:46number of cia
46. 1:48i.t specialists three it specialists
47. 1:51five
48. 1:52cia officers and i believe was two
49. 1:54attorneys uh had in fact either
50. 1:58without permission breached uh the
51. 2:00senate committee's database or caused it
52. 2:03to be breached uh we also find out that
53. 2:06the complaint that the cia
54. 2:08referred to the justice department uh
55. 2:10that uh containing allegations that the
56. 2:12senate staff had without permission
57. 2:14without authorization removed top secret
58. 2:17classified documents from the secret cia
59. 2:20facility in which they were doing their
60. 2:21work was apparently made on with on
61. 2:25with a uh incorrect information that it
62. 2:28was based it was not factually based so
63. 2:30that's gone away but although the cia
64. 2:33the justice department in fact had
65. 2:34dropped the case uh
66. 2:36beginning of last month although very
67. 2:39interestingly this the justice
68. 2:40department said that it had found no
69. 2:43reason to proceed with a criminal
70. 2:44investigation or insufficient evidence
71. 2:46to proceed with a criminal investigation
72. 2:48at this time so it's possible that the
73. 2:51justice department could take a new look
74. 2:53at all of this
75. 2:55we have to wait and see there have been
76. 2:56calls by some members of congress and
77. 2:59civil uh civil rights organizations that
78. 3:01this justice department ought to take a
79. 3:03new look at
80. 3:04what went on and you know the thing
81. 3:07about all of this is that i think
82. 3:08president obama the white house uh staff
83. 3:11the cia
84. 3:13a lot of people on capitol hill had
85. 3:15hoped to put this issue behind them once
86. 3:18the senate
87. 3:19intelligence committee's report is
88. 3:21issued and i don't think this is going
89. 3:22to go away anytime soon
90. 3:36you