CIA: You know when we said we didn't spy on Senate staffers? Funny thing, it WAS us. Sorry

From CNN:


CIA Director John Brennan apologized to the Senate Intelligence Committee today and admitted the agency spied on computers used by its staffers who prepared an investigation of the controversial post-9/11 CIA interrogation and detention program.

The episode was the subject of an unusual public dispute between the panel and the spy agency over access to classified information.

The CIA had accused the committee staffers of getting access to internal agency documents and of improperly handling classified material.

The Justice Department looked into it at the request of the CIA and decided there wasn't enough evidence of a crime to warrant further investigation.

But the CIA's inspector general, a watchdog, found that some agency employees "acted in a manner inconsistent with the common understanding" reached between the intelligence panel and the CIA in 2009 regarding access to information, the CIA said in a statement.