In 2010, Senate staffers figured out that some documents they had already seen had been deleted from their special computer system. The CIA denied this at first, but eventually discovered that in fact more than 900 documents, or pages of documents, had been withdrawn in violation of the agreement between the agency and the Intelligence panel. In May 2010, the CIA’s congressional liaison apologized and said it would not happen again.
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CIA-Senate dispute 101: 9 questions about who's spying on whom
Did the Central Intelligence Agency spy illegally on Senate Intelligence Committee computers? Here are nine questions and answers about a complex story that starts with waterboarding and ends in a secret CIA facility in northern Virginia.
