CIA Accidentally Deleted and Destroyed Its Only Copy of Senate Torture InvestigationBy Andrew Emett Last summer, the Senate Intelligence Committee and the Justice Department were privately informed that CIA employees at the inspector generals office had both destroyed the disk and deleted the file containing the full Senate Torture Report. Despite the fact that the Justice Department ordered all copies of the classified document to be preserved, acting CIA Inspector General Christopher Sharpley was unable to locate another copy and eventually informed the Senate Intelligence Committee that his officers has mistakenly ruined their only copies. On November 9, 2005, CIA Director of National Clandestine Service Jose Rodriguez Jr. authorized the burning of 92 videotapes depicting the harsh interrogations of Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri. In response to the destruction of those tapes, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence voted to review the CIAs Rendition, Detention and Interrogation program on March 5, 2009. With access to over six million pages of CIA documents, the Committee merely provided a superficial summary without bothering to interview any participants or victims of the RDI program. After CIA employees were caught hacking into computers belonging to members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, CIA Director Brennan falsely accused the oversight committee of stealing classified files. Refusing to publicly apologize for his false accusations, Brennan later privately apologized to then-Chairperson of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Dianne Feinstein. Although then-CIA Inspector General David Buckley found his Agency guilty of hacking into the Senate Intelligence Committees computers, a CIA accountability panel later overturned his findings. Since the CIA announced Buckleys resignation early last year, his deputy CIA inspector general, Sharpley, has been serving as acting IG until the president finally appoints and the Senate confirms a new replacement. Its breathtaking that this could have happened, especially in the inspector generals office theyre the ones that are supposed to be providing accountability within the agency itself, CUNY School of Law Prof. Douglas Cox told Yahoo News. It makes you wonder what was going on over there? Instead of releasing the entire 6,700-page Senate Torture Report, Sen. Feinstein disclosed a roughly 500-page executive summary chronicling the CIAs kidnapping, torture, and blatant deception towards Congress and the American public. While referencing multiple human rights abuses, including waterboarding, forced rectal rehydration, and the murder of Gul Rahman, the summary neglected to mention the deaths of Abdul Wali and Manadel al-Jamadi under separate CIA interrogations or the rendition and torture of an Egyptian cleric named Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr. Immediately after replacing Feinstein as the new Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman, Sen. Richard Burr sent a letter to the White House and several other federal agencies in January 2015 demanding they return every copy of the Senates full 6,700-page torture report. While ignoring the Burrs ultimatum to return the classified document, no federal employee appears to have the courage to share the historical document with the American people. Ordered to preserve the document while not reading it, the CIA inspector generals office instead uploaded the file onto its internal classified computer system before destroying the disk and mistakenly deleting their only copy of the file. On Friday, Feinstein wrote a letter asking CIA Director Brennan to give the inspector generals office a new copy of the Senate Torture Report. Your prompt response will allay my concern that this was more than an accident, Feinstein wrote. The CIA IG should have a copy of the full Study because the report includes extensive information directly related to the IGs ongoing oversight of the CIA. While declining to comment on Feinsteins letter, Dean Boyd, the CIAs chief of public affairs, recently told Yahoo News, I can assure you that the CIA has retained a copy. Given the Agencys history of deception and Brennans refusal to provide the inspector generals office with another copy, the CIA once again appears to be operating without any oversight or accountability. Although the IG is responsible for independent oversight of the CIA, the IG actually reports to the Director of the CIA, accordingto the Agencys website. With the exception of former CIA contractor David Passaro, who beat a detainee to death with a metal flashlight, no CIA officer has yet been charged with committing torture, murder, or destruction of evidence. No charges are expected from the so-called Justice Department. Andrew Emett is a Los Angeles-based reporter exposing political and corporate corruption. His interests include national security, corporate abuse, and holding government officials accountable. Andrews work has appeared at TheFreeThoughtProject.com, where this article first appeared, on Raw Story, Alternet, selfnews Post, and many other sites. You can follow him on Twitter @AndrewEmett and on Facebook at Andrew Emett. Dont expect the tail to prosecute the dog. Liars. get rid of themthey are dangerous Having known people that work within the federal government, you can be absolutely certain that the (COG) Continuance Of Government policies have mandated, at least 3 copies of this data at separate, highly secure, climate controlled facilities. 