The CIA report story continues
The Senate Parliamentarian has vindicated former
Senate Intelligence Committee chair Dianne Feinstein against charges that the
California Democrat violated committee rules by sending the full, classified
version of her panel’s torture report out to the executive branch.
“There’s nothing there. They’re taking no action,”
Feinstein told HuffPost Tuesday.
The news marks a victory for Feinstein in a
short-lived but heated partisan feud kickstarted by newly minted Senate
Intelligence Committee chair Richard Burr (R-N.C.) upon taking over the panel’s
reins in January. Burr, who has made no secret of his disdain for Feinstein’s
massive study on the CIA’s post-9/11 torture program, sparked outrage from
Democratic colleagues when he suggested Feinstein had violated committee protocol
by sending out the report in December, just before relinquishing control of the
panel to Republicans.
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