CIA Rendition, Detention and Interrogation: Senate Committee Face-Off with Obama, CIA on Constitutional Crisis | Global Research
What has received modest media attention and remains under the radar for
most Americans is a profoundly significant yet escalating
constitutional crisis between the President, the CIA and the Senate
committee. At issue are monumental statutory questions of whether the
CIA has the right to spy on Congress (albeit all Americans), to sabotage
a Congressional investigation into agency activities and to deny a
Congressional committee its Constitutional oversight obligations. The
Los Angeles Times referred to the clash as the ‘constitutional
equivalent of the Watergate breakin.”
