Senate staffers slipped secret CIA documents from agency’s headquarters

WASHINGTON — Congressional aides involved in preparing the Senate Intelligence Committee’s unreleased study of the CIA’s secret interrogation and detention program walked out of the spy agency’s fortress-like headquarters with classified documents that the CIA contended they weren’t authorized to have, McClatchy has learned.

After the CIA confronted the panel in January about the removal of the material last fall, panel staff concluded that the agency had monitored computers they had been given to use in a high-security research room at the CIA campus in Langley, Virginia a McClatchy investigation found.