However, the letter was never sent. The CIA threw out its Inspector General’s report on the breach and instead charged the Senate of immodesty and carried out an in-house “investigation” clearing the CIA of illegal behavior. The letter was never sent or signed by Brennan. In the hope that the letter would never been seen again, it was filed somewhere away in the CIA’s archives. However, it was accidentally handed over to Jason Leopold much to the CIA’s embarrassment resulting in additional humiliation. No official confirmation has come yet from CIA regarding any wrongdoing (such as the document it did not want to be released but entered into the public record), and still, there’s an acknowledgement of guilt in the hands of the public. Senator Feinstein asserted that everything that could be violated in a single act was violated making it a little difficult to defend actions. We declined the CIA’s request. It looks like someone in the CIA already knew that what it did was clearly wrong and also probably illegal; however, the top management was persistent on not accepting it, as a result, that it even did not send an apology letter. It would have remained a complete secret had not someone mistakenly goofed up and handed over the unsigned letter in a FOIA response deposit. “Second,” her letter continued, “the search may have violated the Fourth Amendment, the Speech and Debate Clause of the Constitution, various statutes (including federal criminal statutes, such as the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and Executive Order 12333,” which says it’s unlawful for the CIA to conduct domestic spying. Source: Techdirt
