"The CIA unconstitutionally spied on Congress by hacking into Senate intelligence committee computers.
"The CIA unconstitutionally spied on Congress by hacking into Senate intelligence committee computers," Senator Mark Udall, a Democrat from Colorado, said on Thursday, calling on Brennan to step down.
He had committee computers seized and used Secret Service agents and a computer expert from General Dynamics to determine whether and how the Democrats' computer files were hacked into as part of a possible improper political operation.
"Unfortunately, the CIA responded by trying to hide the truth from the American people about this program and undermine the Senate intelligence committee's oversight role by illegally searching committee computers".
"CIA personnel inappropriately searched Senate intelligence committee computers in violation of an agreement we had reached, and I believe in violation of the constitutional separation of powers," she said.
The decision was made to search committee computers, and someone should be found responsible for those actions".
In her statement, she states the CIA may have violated the law when it searched committee computers at the CIA facility.
Even Dianne Feinstein, the committee's chair, often considered the "senator from national security," was moved to offer an extraordinary denunciation on the floor of the Senate of the CIA's interference with committee computers.
meet with Brennan, who states that the CIA had conducted a "search" of committee computers at the CIA facility in order to determine whether the committee staff had obtained a copy of the Panetta Review.
In America, a congressional committee for computer security has given failing grades to many of the federal bodies it scrutinises.
Today, Dr. Lidin of the Nobel committee said, computer simulations have become as informative as the experiments.
