{"id":40101,"date":"2018-11-03T11:04:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T16:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40101"},"modified":"2018-11-03T11:04:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T16:04:26","slug":"cia-secretly-intercepted-congressional-communications-about-whistleblowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40101","title":{"rendered":"CIA secretly intercepted Congressional communications about whistleblowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"fix \">\n<aside class=\"post-meta\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/sharylattkisson.com\/2018\/11\/02\/cia-secretly-intercepted-congressional-communications-about-whistleblowers\/\">CIA secretly intercepted Congressional communications about whistleblowers<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/aside>\n<\/header>\n<div id=\"single-media\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"woo-image\" title=\"CIA secretly intercepted Congressional communications about whistleblowers\" src=\"https:\/\/sharylattkisson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-02-at-12.52.51-AM-960x365.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2018-11-02 at 12.52.51 AM\" width=\"960\" \/><\/div>\n<section class=\"entry col-left\">\n<ul>\n<li><em>CIA intercepted Congressional emails about whistleblowers in 2014<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Inspector General expressed concern about \u201cpotential compromise to whistleblower confidentiality\u201d and \u201cchilling effect\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Newly-declassified documents show the CIA intercepted sensitive Congressional communications about intelligence community whistleblowers.<\/p>\n<p>The intercepts occurred under CIA Director John Brennan and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.\u00a0The new disclosures are contained in two letters of \u201cCongressional notification\u201d originally written to key members of Congress in March 2014, but kept secret until now.<\/p>\n<p>In the letters, then-Intelligence Community Inspector General Charles McCullough tells four key members of Congress that during \u201croutine counterintelligence monitoring of Government computer systems,\u201d the CIA collected emails between Congressional staff and the CIA\u2019s head of whistleblowing and source protection. McCullough states that he\u2019s concerned \u201cabout the potential compromise to whistleblower confidentiality and the consequent \u2018chilling effect\u2019 that the present [counterintelligence] monitoring system might have on Intelligence Community whistleblowing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The idea that the CIA would monitor communications of U.S. government officials, including those in the legislative branch, is itself controversial. But in this case, the CIA picked up some of the most sensitive emails between Congress and intelligence agency workers blowing the whistle on alleged wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4746\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4746\" src=\"https:\/\/sharylattkisson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-15-at-11.36.08-PM.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sharylattkisson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-15-at-11.36.08-PM.png 480w, https:\/\/sharylattkisson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-15-at-11.36.08-PM-252x300.png 252w\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"571\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Brennan, former Obama CIA Director and Homeland Security Adviser<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cMost of these emails concerned pending and developing whistleblower complaints,\u201d McCullough states in his letters to lead Democrats and Republicans on the House and Senate Intelligence Committees at the time: Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-California) and Saxby Chambliss (R-Georgia); and Representatives Michael Rogers (R-Michigan) and Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Maryland). McCullough adds that the type of monitoring that occurred was \u201clawful and justified for [counterintelligence] purposes\u201d but<\/p>\n<div class=\"woo-sc-quote\">\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI am not confident that Congressional staff fully understood that their whistleblower-related communications with my Executive Director of whistleblowing might be reviewed as a result of routine [CIA counterintelligence] monitoring.\u201d\u2013Intelligence Community Inspector General 2014<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CIA secretly intercepted Congressional communications about whistleblowers CIA intercepted Congressional emails about whistleblowers in 2014 The Inspector General expressed concern about \u201cpotential compromise to whistleblower confidentiality\u201d and \u201cchilling effect\u201d Newly-declassified documents show the CIA intercepted sensitive Congressional communications about intelligence community whistleblowers. The intercepts occurred under CIA Director John Brennan and Director of National Intelligence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3306,4102,22762,135,19399,4885,2540,725,1796,22761,2848],"class_list":["post-40101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-barack-obama","tag-central-intelligence-agency","tag-charles-mccullough","tag-cia","tag-director-of-national-intelligence","tag-james-clapper","tag-john-brennan","tag-sharyl-attkisson","tag-us-congress","tag-us-inspector-general","tag-whistleblowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40102,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40101\/revisions\/40102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}