CIA爲監控參議院僱員電腦道歉
The CIA has apologised to the Senate intelligence committee after it admitted spying on computers used by staffers to compile a soon-to-be-released report on torture by the intelligence agency.
美國中央情報局(CIA)承認，曾監控過參議院僱員使用的電腦，併爲此向參議院情報委員會(Senate Intelligence Committee)道歉。這些電腦是參議院僱員用來編輯一些即將發佈的報告的，報告的內容涉及中情局的刑訊逼供情況。John Brennan, director of the CIA, acknowledged that an internal investigation discovered CIA staff had breached an agreement with the Senate committee and had investigated the computers being used by staffers.
中情局局長約翰•布倫南(John Brennan)承認，在一次內部調查中，中情局僱員被發現違反了與參議院情報委員會的協議，調查過參議院僱員使用的電腦。
The admission follows a bitter public dispute between the CIA and the committee after its chair Senator Dianne Feinstein accused the agency of potentially violating the constitution by removing documents from the computers.
就在布倫南做出這番表態之前，中情局和參議院情報委員會之間正處於激烈的公開爭論之中。爭論的起因是該委員會主席黛安•范斯坦(Dianne Feinstein)參議員指控說，中情局從參議院電腦中刪除了多份文件——此舉有違憲嫌疑。
In an extraordinary speech in the Senate in March, she accused the CIA of trying to intimidate the intelligence committee, which has compiled a 6,300-page report on the agency’s “enhanced interrogation” programme in the years immediately after the 9/11 attacks.
今年3月，在參議院一次非同尋常的講話中，她指控CIA試圖恐嚇參議院情報委員會，該委員會曾編纂過一份長達6300頁的報告，報告的內容就是中情局在9·11襲擊隨後幾年中開展的“強化審訊”項目。At the time, the CIA vehemently denied the accusations, with Mr Brennan insisting that “nothing could be further from the truth” and saying that he was “dismayed” that senators would make “spurious allegations about CIA actions”.
當時，中情局斷然否認了這一指控。當時，布倫南堅稱“沒什麼能比事實走得更遠”，並表示多名參議員“對中情局行爲的虛假指控”令他“失望”。In response to the initial accusation, the CIA asked the Justice department to investigate whether Senate staffers had illegally got hold of an internal CIA document.
作爲對這一初步指控的迴應，中情局曾要求司法部調查參議院僱員是否曾非法獲取中情局內部文件。However, in a statement released on Thursday, the CIA said that Mr Brennan had apologised to Ms Feinstein and to Saxby Chambliss, the leading Republican on the committee.
然而，在週四發佈的聲明中，中情局表示布倫南已向該委員會兩位頭號共和黨議員——范斯坦和薩克斯比•錢布利斯(Saxby Chambliss)——道過歉。The agency had set up an accountability board to be conducted by a retired senator to investigate the case which could potentially lead to disciplinary measures, the CIA said.
中情局表示已成立一個問責小組，該小組由一位退休參議員領導，負責調查這一案件，調查結果很可能會導致機構的懲處。The dispute has raised questions about the continued tenure at the CIA of Mr Brennan, who was previously a close aide to President Barack Obama and the White House’s counter-terrorism chief. Mark Udall, a Democratic senator, said Mr Brennan had “misled the public”.
這次爭端引發了人們對布倫南是否應繼續擔任中情局局長的質疑。在此之前，布倫南曾是美國總統巴拉克•奧巴馬(Barack Obama)的親密助手、白宮反恐活動的頭號人物。民主黨參議員馬克•尤德爾(Mark Udall)表示，布倫南“誤導了公衆”。Ms Feinstein said that the statement vindicated her March accusation and called the apology a “positive first step”.
范斯坦表示，該聲明證明她3月份提出的指控完全屬實，並稱這次道歉是“積極的一步”。
