Senator Diane Feinstein took to the floor of the Senate yesterday to detail a long simmering conflict between the CIA and the Senate. The clash has constitutional, and institutional ramifcations. What's clear is that both sides were playing hardball when it came to a fight over documents that provided painstaking detail of the CIA torture and rendition programs. Associated Press lays out the basics of the argument: HOW IT STARTED: It begins with questions of torture. The Senate Intelligence Committee in 2009 began a wide-ranging investigation into CIA interrogation techniques during the Bush administration, including waterboarding of terrorism suspects at secret overseas prisons. The resulting 6,300-page report, completed in 2012, has never been publicly released. The current dispute centers on whether the CIA impeded the Senate's investigation, and whether the Senate improperly obtained or handled CIA documents along the way. THE DOCUMENT DUMP: The CIA responded...(Read Full Post)