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[[File:Obama-brennan-white-house-540.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Obama and CIA Director John Brennan meet in the White House to discuss the Torturegate coverup.<ref>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/11/john-brennan-torture_n_6310704.html </ref> Brennan had been heavily involved in the CIA's torture program,<ref>https://www.ncronline.org/news/peace-justice/american-impunity-shielding-officials-involved-torture-has-decades-long-precedent </ref> and when the Congress investigated,<ref>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/01/does-it-matter-if-john-brennan-was-complicit-in-illegal-torture/266918/ </ref> the CIA spied on and hacked into its Senate overseers computers who were investigating the CIA's use of torture.<ref>
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/01/05/bob-baer-if-russian-hacking-story-is-political-there-should-be-a-criminal-investigation/?utm_source=akdart </ref> Brennan needed Obama's assurance the Justice Dept. would not prosecute himself or anyone else involved in the torture program.]]
