Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) disclosed in a fiery speech on Tuesday that Brennan told her in January that CIA personnel had conducted a search on computers at a CIA-leased facility that had been reserved for the use of committee staffers investigating the agency’s role in the Bush-era torture of detainees.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe Constitution clearly gives the legislative branch the authority to investigate the executive branch and not the other way around. More even than the act itself, some critics see Brennan’s lack of recognition of the extent of his violation of key constitutional principles to be the biggest cause for him to be fired. The recent revelations that CIA Director Brennan reported the surveillance directly to Chairman Feinstein is stunning, said Angela Canterbury, public policy director of the Project On Government Oversight (POGO). How can we hold such impunity accountable? Remove Brennan, for starters, she said. And then there must be a full investigation that is more independent than one might expect from DOJ.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbShahid Buttar, executive director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, said that the concerns about the Senate investigation that led Brennan to launch his search were ridiculous, as well as simply incorrect. Buttar continued: Given his false assurances to the Senate Intelligence Committee about CIA drone strikes, and his continuing failure to let the public finally know the facts about CIA torture, Brennan should resign or be removed from office so the Committee can examine and confirm new leadership.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbSome senators appeared to be close to calling for Brennan to go. I’ve lost confidence in Director Brennan, particularly because he won’t acknowledge the misdeeds and misconduct of the CIA, Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) said on MSNBC on Tuesday. He added: The CIA has an important role to play, but if the public doesn’t trust the CIA, if the Senate overseers don’t trust the CIA, I don’t know how Director Brennan can continue to lead the agency. Despite Director Brennan’s commitment to strengthen the trust’ between the CIA and the Intelligence Committee, the relationship between our respective bodies has only deteriorated during the first year of his tenure, Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M), said in a statement…<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tLa Maison-Blanche est jusqu’ici rest\u00e9e, sans surprise pour les observateurs qui savent observer, sur une prudente r\u00e9serve \u00e0 propos de cette affaire. Le porte-parole du pr\u00e9sident n’a fait que r\u00e9p\u00e9ter, sur le rythme du perroquet, que le pr\u00e9sident gardait toute sa confiance au directeur de la CIA, ce qui marque au moins une remarquable continuit\u00e9 dans une attitude marqu\u00e9e par une sorte de laisser-faire \u00e0 la fois indiff\u00e9rent et paralys\u00e9. Il sera int\u00e9ressant de voir si Obama fait quelque chose de consistant \u00e0 propos de cette affaire qui touche pourtant l’une des alli\u00e9es les plus fid\u00e8les de l’IC (Intelligence Community<\/em>), et d\u00e9fenderesse acharn\u00e9e de la NSA.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tIl appara\u00eet toujours plus \u00e9vident, c’est presque une remarque de routine, que l’attitude d’Obama, pour ce cas dans les affaires de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale mais \u00e9galement d’une fa\u00e7on g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, ne d\u00e9pend ni d’une politique, ni de pressions exerc\u00e9es sur lui, ni d’aucun autre type de machination, mais bien de cette influence g\u00e9n\u00e9rale que le Syst\u00e8me exerce sur lui comme sur la plupart des membres des directions politiques. Dans un tel contexte, la probabilit\u00e9 d’une action d\u00e9cisive d’Obama contre Brennan semble appara\u00eetre assez mince, et ne d\u00e9pendre que d’une modification de la forme de cette influence selon les r\u00e9actions accompagnant cette affaire, par exemple si elles conduisaient \u00e0 d\u00e9terminer qu’il y a plus \u00e0 perdre qu’\u00e0 gagner \u00e0 maintenir Brennan \u00e0 son poste.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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\tMis en ligne le 13 f\u00e9vrier 2014 \u00e0 09H16<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Brennan restera-t-il \u00e0 la CIA ? Le cas du scandale Feinstein\/CIA (voir le 12 mars 2014) est tellement \u00e9norme, tellement arch\u00e9typique d’un acte de violation de la Constitution des USA, qu’on devrait se demander non pas si Brennan restera \u00e0 la t\u00eate de la CIA, mais pourquoi il s’y trouve encore. Mais cette remarque vaut… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[3104,5355,7614,15680,5579,3014],"class_list":["post-73764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breves-de-crise","tag-cia","tag-demission","tag-feinstein","tag-obalma","tag-pression","tag-systeme"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}