CIA Secretly Searched Congressional Computers

by JASmius

The Hopenchange dictatorship rolls on, unfettered and unimpeded.  The genuine news story today is that it is getting so indiscriminate in who and what it steps on that now it's even tromping its own:

Senator John McCain had strong words for CIA Director John Brennan and said an independent investigation might be needed to determine whether the CIA improperly accessed Senate computers.

"I have never had a great deal of confidence in Mr. Brennan," McCain said, according to NBCNews.com.

If this were all there was to the story - one RINO and however many other members of the minority issuing complaints into an ocean of crickets - it probably wouldn't have made the media's radar at all.  But, remarkably enough, this time the outrage seems to ostensibly be bipartisan:

McCain's comments come amid a firestorm of outrage from the Senate over allegations the CIA searched a congressional computer network. The search was a possible violation of the separation of powers between the branches of government, said the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee Dianne Feinstein in a dramatic speech on the Senate floor.... 

Feinstein angrily denounced the CIA's actions, saying it appeared to be a bid to intimidate lawmakers from holding the spy agency accountable.

"I have grave concerns that the CIA's search may well have violated the separation of powers principles embodied in the United States Constitution," Feinstein said.

The Intelligence Committee did not hack into CIA computers to obtain an internal report on the agency's interrogation and detention program, Feinstein said. "The committee clearly did not hack into CIA computers to obtain these documents, as has been suggested in the press," she said.

How apparently heap big deal is this?  Even Dirty Harry Reid is suddenly jumping on the "separation of powers" bandwagon, and Pat "Leaky" Leahy of Vermont, now Senate President Pro Tempore, called Feinstein's the most important speech he'd ever heard in the Senate.

I qualify these declarative statements because I frankly don't buy Senate Dems' sudden rediscovery of Congress's constitutional prerogatives.  Until they start objecting to O's blizzard of Executive decrees on everything from extralegally imposing amnesty to endlessly re-writing ObamaCare in flagrant contravention of Article I, Section I - i.e. taking constitutional stands where False Messiah's usurpations of the legislative power advances their agenda - DiFi's "historic" Senate floor speech and all the hosannas from her co-partisans are just more of the usual mendatious jibber-jabber.

Although I suppose it is noteworthy that they still remember how to speak constitutionese.  Kind of like how the devil often assumes a pleasing shape.