Una dintre principalele critici sustinute de republicani si sustinatorii CIA cu privire la reperul studiat de cinci ani al Comitetului de Informatii al Senatului asupra programului de tortura al CIA a fost costul pentru contribuabili: 40 de milioane de dolari.
Implicarea acestor critici este ca democratii din Senat, care au condus ancheta, au fost responsabili pentru cheltuielile asociate cu productia raportului lor voluminoasa, care a concluzionat ca utilizarea CIA a asa-numitelor „tehnici de interogare imbunatatite” nu a fost eficienta si nu a produs inteligenta „unica” si „valoroasa”.
Intr-adevar, directorul CIA, John Brennan, a declarat in cadrul unui interviu cu Andrea Mitchell, de la NBC News, anul trecut, la Consiliul pentru relatii externe, ca comitetul a investit „multi bani” in redactarea „acestui raport”. Ca parte a unei incercari mai largi de a discredita concluziile raportului, CIA a difuzat puncte de discutie – unele dintre acestea au atins cheltuielile imprudente ale Senatului – fostilor oficiali ai agentiei, care apoi au vorbit public impotriva raportului.
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Dar VICE News a obtinut in exclusivitate peste 100 de pagini de documente contractante [pdf de mai jos] care arata ca au fost oficialii CIA care au insistat sa externalizeze lucrarile legate de revizuirea Senatului – si ca CIA a platit mai mult de 40 de milioane de dolari catre unul dintre contractori de lunga durata pentru sprijin administrativ si alte sarcini legate de activitatea Senatului. Aceste sarcini includeau compilarea, revizuirea, redactarea si apoi postarea pe un server infiintat de catre contractant a peste 6 milioane de pagini de cabluri CIA extrem de clasificate si alte documente despre angajatii Comitetului de Informatii din Senatul programului de tortura care au fost examinati pe parcursul sondei lor. .
Documentele CIA au fost preluate ca raspuns la o actiune VICE News din Legea privind libertatea informatiilor (FOIA) depusa in comun anul trecut la Ryan Shapiro, istoric si candidat la doctorat la Institutul Tehnologic din Massachusetts, specializat in cercetarea securitatii nationale.
Identitatea contractantului CIA care lucreaza alaturi de Senat, deoarece sondeaza eficacitatea programului de tortura al CIA a fost pazita din 2009. Insa VICE News poate dezvalui ca compania care a recoltat caderea este Centra Technology, din Burlington, Massachusetts, care se afla in apropiere. , Inc. De la fondarea sa in 1997, Centra a beneficiat de peste 200 de milioane de dolari in contracte guvernamentale. Centra este, de asemenea, unul dintre contractantii de pre-aprobare de elita a guvernului, ceea ce inseamna ca, ori de cate ori guvernul are o nevoie stringenta de externalizare, poate solicita Centra sa o indeplineasca imediat.
Centra si filialele sale au oferit sprijin militar si de informatii fortelor americane din Afganistan si Irak, prin sprijinirea „activitatilor informatice guvernamentale americane folosind instrumente si metode de ultima generatie”. S-a scris foarte putin public despre companie si activitatea acesteia.
Intr-o declaratie transmisa VICE News, senatoarea Dianne Feinstein, fosta presedinta a Comitetului de Informatii, a declarat ca acordul dintre CIA si Centra este o cheltuiala inutila.
„Aceste documente confirma si ofera contextul pentru ce am spus in decembrie: CIA a cheltuit aproximativ 40 de milioane de dolari pentru a impiedica raportul Comitetului de Informatii al Senatului privind programul de detentie si interogare CIA, in timp ce comitetul a functionat in cadrul bugetului sau existent”, a spus Feinstein. “Nu numai ca aceasta a fost o pierdere de dolari pentru contribuabili, dar insistenta ca personalul comisiei sa calatoreasca intr-o instalatie CIA din afara locului a permis CIA sa spioneze lucrarile comisiei. Sunt multumit ca aceste documente sunt eliberate, astfel incat publicul sa inteleaga exact ce s-a intamplat si speram ca aceste informatii vor ajuta la asigurarea unei astfel de obstacole a supravegherii congresului nu se va mai repeta “.
CIA a angajat anterior unii dintre cei mai buni oficiali Centra, inclusiv directorul de acces global Margaret “Peggy” Lyons, care a lucrat la Serviciul National Clandestin al CIA, care a condus programul de interogare al agentiei (potrivit Newsweek, Lyons a fost acuzat de anchetatorii federali intr-un alt caz de a avea „acasa cartus ilegal zeci de documente CIA clasificate”); James Harris, vicepresedintele diviziei de cercetare si analiza a informatiilor Centra, care a petrecut doua decenii la CIA gestionand programele de analiza; si directorul executiv al Centra, Harold Rosenbaum, care a fost un „membru activ” al directorului Comitetului consultativ pentru stiinte si tehnologie al Centrului de Informatii, potrivit bio-ului sau.
Un purtator de cuvant al Centra nu a raspuns la cererile de comentarii cu privire la activitatea sa pentru CIA. La scurt timp dupa publicarea acestei povesti, Centra a scos bios-ul directorilor sai de pe site-ul sau web. Compania a inlocuit bio Rosenbaum cu un „Mesaj de la CEO” care nu-si citeaza activitatea pentru Comitetul consultativ stiintific si tehnologic al CIA.
Site-ul Centra se mandreste cu faptul ca clientii sai includ trei sucursale ale armatei; FBI; Serviciul Secret; Departamentul Securitatii Interne; departamentele de aparare, justitie si energie; NATO; NASA; si multe alte agentii federale.
Absent de pe lista este CIA.
Contractul dintre CIA si Centra spune ca este neclasificat, dar „dezvaluirea este pe baza de cunoastere”. S-a extins in 2013, dar a facut parte dintr-un contract mai mare, existent, intre CIA si Centra, care dateaza din iunie 2007. Contractul, care a fost modificat de mai mult de zeci de ori, spune ca a fost finantat de „DCIA” – Oficiul directorului a Agentiei Centrale de Informatii
Urmariti interviul VICE News cu fostul director adjunct al CIA, Michael Morell.
Feinstein a scris mai multe scrisori catre CIA in ultimii cinci ani obiectand la utilizarea de catre CIA a contractorilor externi. Ea a spus ca costurile ridicate pe care le-a suportat CIA s-au datorat si crearii unei retele de calculatoare de sine statatoare pentru utilizarea comitetului, RDINet, un acronim pentru predare, retinere si interogatoriu, unde au fost stocate documentele CIA.
CIA spokesman Ryan Trapani disputed VICE News’ “interpretation” of the Centra contract.
“A significant portion of the contract cost pertained to services completely distinct from, and wholly unrelated to, the Senate Intelligence Committee review,” Trapani said, backtracking on the agency’s statements last year that the $40 million the agency spent was due entirely to “the committee’s demands of CIA in this investigation.” “In terms of the services performed in support of the committee review, CIA dedicated substantial resources to provide the committee unprecedented access to millions of pages of documents as expeditiously as possible, consistent with the security requirements for such highly classified, sensitive documents.”
Trapani said he could not disclose details about the other services the $40 million Centra contract supported nor could he provide VICE News with a breakdown on the money the agency spent specifically to fund the Senate’s work because that information is classified. The CIA withheld details from the contract turned over to VICE News and Shapiro that would have likely answered those questions, citing nearly every exemption under FOIA, including a threat to national security, and the exposure of trade secrets, intelligence sources, and methods.
The claim that the Senate torture report cost $40 million appears to have first surfaced in the “minority views” response prepared by Republicans on the Intelligence Committee who, in a footnote in their report, cited a November 6, 2012 letter from CIA Associate Deputy Director V. Sue Bromley to support their assertion.
According to the heavily redacted documents, the contract the CIA awarded to Centra was known as a “firm fixed price level of effort” contract. Under that type of deal, the government agrees to pay the contractor a set dollar amount and the contractor agrees to provide “a specified level of effort, over a stated period of time, on work that can be stated only in general terms” and cannot be clearly defined.
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Such contracts, according to government documents, are “suitable for investigation or study in a specific research and development area.” These types of contracts are usually used when the contract price is $150,000 or lower unless approved by the chief of the contracting office, according to government contracting guidelines.
When the Senate Intelligence Committee announced in 2009 that it had launched an investigation into the CIA’s detention and interrogation program, then-CIA Director Leon Panetta said that he, too, planned to review it. He announced the formation of a Director’s Review Group for Rendition, Detention, and Interrogation, whose investigation would run parallel to the one being conducted by the Senate Intelligence Committee. The Director’s Review Group was also tasked with compiling the same documents the intelligence committee reviewed and writing up summaries about some of the more noteworthy findings on which the Intelligence Committee would likely focus. Those summaries became known as the Panetta Review.
A September 14, 2009 “Statement of Work” in the contracting documents titled “Collection, Review, and Redaction Program” says the scope of the contract calls for Centra to provide “integrated programmatic support” and full-time personnel to support the CIA “Director’s Group for Rendition, Detention and Interrogation’s (DRG-RDI) collection, review, and posting of responsive materials” to a classified computer network for the Senate Intelligence Committee.
A second statement of work document dated May 31, 2012, is nearly identical but says the contract is for “DRG Support,” and that in addition to providing CIA detention and interrogation documents to Congress, the documents are also sent to the Department of Justice. At the time, a federal prosecutor had been conducting a criminal investigation into the deaths of detainees in custody of the CIA. The statement of work says DRG “serves as the primary focal point for the collection, review, and production of CIA documents to DOJ and Congress” and “manages all requests from the investigations and ensures CIA’s compliance with the requirements of these investigations.”
The documents reveals that the contracting officer at the Office of Director of National Intelligence approved the cost increases of the Centra contract, which eventually reached $42 million in 2012. The astronomical expenses are laid bare in one document, which shows that Centra sent the CIA an estimate of $123,017.44 for labor costs during one week in September 2009, though the CIA redacted what that work entailed. The contract says the “principal place of performance will be at a Government facility located in Northern Virginia.” The CIA redacted the name of the building.
The CIA also redacted the number of contracting employees who were granted access to documents, briefed about the program, and assigned to work on the Senate’s review. CIA additionally redacted the minimum and maximum number of “labor hours” the contractors were supposed to work.
“I’m unsure why that contract type was used, because generally it is used in instances when work cannot be clearly defined,” Scott Amey, the general counsel for the Project on Government Oversight (POGO), told VICE News after reviewing the CIA contracting documents. “This [CIA] contract, however, had a very specific statement of work. It is fixed price, but the labor rate and specified number of labor hours could be ripe for abuse if the CIA and the Senate aren’t watching. Operating contracts in the dark can be problematic without proper oversight.”
The CIA blacked out descriptions about the contract’s “statement of objectives, tasks, schedule, personnel, deliverables, and place and period of performance.”
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Left intact, however, was one multimillion-dollar task associated with the contract: that Centra was to provide to the CIA an administrative officer “to support… an array of administrative and logistical duties in support of the DRG-RDI mission,” such as greeting staff and escorting visitors and guests; drafting and proofreading office correspondence; ordering supplies; maintaining electronic and paper files to ensure “continuity of data”; and “plan, prepare, and coordinate the daily transportation schedule of RDI’s exclusive driver.”
The CIA could have saved a lot of money by having a public servant perform the administrative tasks, according to Amey:
“It’s a less risky option both from a security standpoint and a financial standpoint.”
Follow Jason Leopold on Twitter: @JasonLeopold
UPDATE, July 28, 2015: A quote from CIA spokesman Ryan Trapani was added to this story.
