United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

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The United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) is a congressional committee of the US Senate , who along with his partner committee in the United States House of Representatives , the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence , supervision of the legislature over the United States Intelligence Community to ensure.

The committee was formed in 1975 at the suggestion of the Church Committee , which investigated the actions of the intelligence services . It mainly deals with the annual budget of the intelligence services, which is presented by the US President . He is preparing the legislation that will allow the various civil and military services to invest for the next year. This affects the Office of the Director of National Intelligence , Central Intelligence Agency , Defense Intelligence Agency , National Security Agency , National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency , National Reconnaissance Office , and also those parts of the Department of State , Federal Bureau of Investigation , Department of the Treasury and Department of Energy , who do intelligence work. The committee advises the Armed Forces Committee on issues related to intelligence aspects of the US Army , US Navy , US Air Force, and US Marine Corps . The Committee also examines programs and activities of the intelligence services on a regular basis.

In the 115th Congress leading Republican Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina the committee chair.

In 2014, the committee presented its so-called " Torture Report ", which examines the controversial interrogation methods of the Bush era. In their investigation for the report, members of the committee encountered an internal CIA assessment of the detention and interrogation methods. The CIA saw this as unauthorized access, and therefore a criminal offense, and then searched the computers that had been made available to the Senate Committee in a CIA facility for research purposes. The committee chairman, who had previously publicly defended the secret services, accused the CIA in a speech to the Senate of having removed documents from these work computers.

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  1. ↑ Torture methods of the CIA come to light - dpa via FAZ, April 2014
  2. ^ " Congressional aides involved in preparing the Senate Intelligence Committee's unreleased study of the CIA's secret interrogation and detention program walked out of one of the spy agency's top-secret facility with classified documents that the CIA contended they weren't authorized to have , McClatchy has learned. " (March 7, 2014)
  3. ↑ a b MARK MAZZETTI and JONATHAN WEISMAN: "Brennan told members of the committee did the agency had Carried out a search of computers used by committee investigators at a CIA facility in Northern Virginia, where the committee which examining documents the agency had made available for its report. " - NYT, March 11, 2014
  4. ↑ "... whether the CIA violated the Constitution or federal law by searching Senate computers, or whether Democratic staffers hacked into the CIA's system to obtain classified documents" Dianne Feinstein-CIA feud enters uncharted territory - March 2014
  5. ↑ CIA spies on members of the Senate of the Intelligence Committee. American intelligence officials are said to have spied on congressmen. The reason is said to have been investigations into controversial interrogation methods. In: Zeit Online. Zeit Online GmbH, July 31, 2014, accessed on August 1, 2014 .