https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/01/world/senate-intelligence-commitee-cia-interrogation-report.html

One official with knowledge of the report’s conclusions said the investigation also discovered that the officers created a false online identity to gain access on more than one occasion to computers used by the committee staff.

Creating a false identity means they had user creation access to the system, meaning they either hacked an IT manager account, or had someone working with them to create the account.

Is that where the Awan brothers come into play? I don’t know the intricacies of the senate or house IT system, but is it possible that they had management level access to the systems for both? If that is the case, they could have created the user for the CIA officers to gain access.

Just throwing a theory out there.

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Brennan was the quarterback

But anger among lawmakers grew throughout the day. Leaving a nearly three-hour briefing about the report in a Senate conference room, members of both parties called for the C.I.A. officers to be held accountable, and some said they had lost confidence in Mr. Brennan’s leadership. “This is a serious situation and there are serious violations,” said Mr. Chambliss, generally a staunch ally of the intelligence community. He called for the C.I.A. employees to be “dealt with very harshly.”

I’m really starting to think the Awan brothers were the “CIA officers” mentioned in the articles.

According to David B. Buckley, the C.I.A. inspector general, three of the agency’s information technology officers and two of its lawyers “improperly accessed or caused access” to a computer network designated for members of the committee’s staff working on the report to sift through millions of documents at a C.I.A. site in Northern Virginia. The names of those involved are unavailable because the full report has not yet been made public.