CIA Director John Brennan said Wednesday that members of Congress who claimed the intelligence agency may have monitored Senate Intelligence Committee staffers were making unfounded allegations.
“I am deeply dismayed that some members of the Senate have decided to make spurious allegations about CIA actions that are wholly unsupported by the facts,” Brennan said in a statement obtained by The Guardian.
“I am very confident that the appropriate authorities reviewing this matter will determine where wrongdoing, if any, occurred in either the executive branch or legislative branch,” he added.
McClatchy and the New York Times reported earlier Wednesday that the CIA had begun an internal review into complaints that Senate Intelligence Committee staffers who were compiling on a report about the agency’s detention and interrogation program were monitored while working on computers provided to them at CIA headquarters.
