The CIA has referred the case to the Department of Justice, presumably to see if Senate staff members can be prosecuted for their actions. Feinstein claims that this is an attempt to intimidate her committee and that the CIA is in turn liable to charges that it has violated the Fourth Amendment through an illegal search of the committee’s computers.
Feinstein pointedly noted that the acting CIA chief counsel, identified in the press as Robert Eatinger, was the chief lawyer for the interrogation effort and is mentioned by name in the Senate report more than 1,600 times. Mr. Eatinger and other CIA officials provided false information to the Intelligence Committee regarding the interrogations, Feinstein alleged.
“And now this individual is sending a crimes report to the Department of Justice on the actions of congressional staff,” Feinstein said.
