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Down the rabbit hole

Fear and Loathing at Langley

Kerry and Clapper's last-minute gambit

No one at the CIA was ever held accountable.

its lead investigator has revealed for the first time.who led the probe into the CIA's detention and interrogation program following 9/11, has revealed the drama behind theauthored by Spencer Ackerman and published over the weekend by The Guardian.From 2008 to 2014, Jones and his colleagueseventually authoring a 6,700-page classified reportSpeaking to the media for the first time, he spoke of how, and how the man who set him on his career path - Denis McDonough, the White House chief of staff - sided with the CIA in"They redacted all references to Allah," Jones said. "Like, really? Under what national security concern?"Backed by the White House, the agency insisted onfrom the declassified report, both for theThat made itfrom one "black site" to another. "You couldn't follow the narrative arc," Jones told The Guardian.Redactions followed a, Jones explained. First the CIA and the White House would claim they were. When the committee staff argued otherwise, they would say "this will really, this is a morale issue ... as if that was a reasonable response to making something classified," Jones said.Both the CIA and the White House were adamantly opposed to revealing thatThe final public document contained only oblique language suggesting the possibility.Jones and his colleagues were first tasked to look into, following a December 2007 revelation by the New York Times that a senior CIA official named Jose RodriguezJones and his colleagues found documents describing how Abu Zubaydah wasamong other things."I don't think the CIA even knew what they were giving us, to be honest," Jones said.When Jones presented the committee with a preliminary report, in February 2009, both Republicans and Democrats were. By March, the committee had voted to expand the investigation to review the entire program.Agreeing to review the documents inside an office provided by the CIA, using a separate computer set-up, Jones and his colleagues started digging. By March 2010, they noticed theyAn internal CIA probe discovered thatfrom the committee on two occasions.With this in mind, in the summer of 2013 Jones took a printout of a document, prepared by the CIA for then-director Leon Panetta,The so-calledwas never made public, and it should still be in the Senate Intelligence Committee safe."It's a final findings document. It has 13 findings. And one is, basically, they providedJones said. "They're topic oriented: 'These are the inaccurate things we told the president'."When Colorado Senator Mark Udall, a Democrat,of this document at a December 2013 hearing, theaccusing Jones of hacking into their computers even as agents broke into the computer system set up for the Senate staff to spy on their work.The CIA's Inspector-General later established that at least five agency officials wouldduring January 2014, even readingtrying to establish how the Panetta Review made it onto that computer system in the first place.CIA Director John Brennan met with the committee leadership on January 15, 2014, demanding that staffers who accessed the documentSenator Diane Feinstein (D-California), who chaired the committee at the time,Instead, sheas improper. In the heated war of words between the CIA and the Senate, the agency even referred Jones to the Department of Justice,- which the DOJ eventually declined to pursue.On April 3, 2014, the committee voted toof the torture report. The CIA overreaction had apparently convinced the minority Republicans - who had long opposed such a move - to change their mind.In June 2013, the CIA had sent a long response to the committee,of the report's first draft. Jones had incorporated that response - and the comments and footnotes rebutting it - into the final draft, which grew to 6,700 pages as a result. The final executive summary that was made to the general public amounted to 525 pages, with Jones having toAt one point, Feinstein even accused the White House of, knowing that the Democrats would lose the midterm election and the report would never see the light of day under a Republican-led committee.In December 2014, Secretary of State, because it mightin the Muslim world andagainst Islamic State. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper followed up,ThatThe Guardian reported, saying that multiple sources indicated theby the apparent efforts by the Obama administration to suppress the report.The so-calledIt describedmaking themleaving at least one of themas bubbles rose from their open mouths; andwhile claiming it was necessary for delivering nutrients.""People who played a significant role in this program, who are in the report, continue to play significant roles in sensitive programs at the agency," said Jones.