Report of Investigation Agency Access to the Ssci Shared Drive on Rdinet

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III. (U) BACKGROUND

(U) Review of the Rendition, Detention, and Interrogation Program

4. (U//FOUO) On 26 March 2009, the SSCI informed the CIA that the SSCI planned to conduct a thorough review of the CIA's RDI Program $ ^{1} $ . On 22 June 2009, the SSCI staff began their review. The review necessitated access by SSCI staff to a large volume of sensitive, classified, and compartmented CIA documents. In order to provide the documents to the SSCI staff and ensure pertinent information was provided, the CIA established a review process. Initially, the SSCI staff provided search terms to the CIA RDI Review Team ("RDI team") $ ^{2} $ to identify responsive documents. The RDI team tasked Agency components with searching their databases for the requested material and collected the potentially responsive documents. The CIA tasked components of the Agency to conduct additional searches of their holdings for potentially responsive documents that were then provided to the RDI team. The RDI team reviewed the documents for responsiveness, removed information designated as Executive Privilege information, and provided the SSCI staff with access to the documents via the RDINet.

5. (U//FOUO) In an effort to understand the information the Agency had released and continued to release to the SSCI staff, the RDI Special Review Team (SRT) was created in May 2009. The SRT created documents known as Weekly Case Reports (WCRs), among other documents, at the request of then D/CIA Leon Panetta for the purpose of summarizing for CIA management the information being produced to the SSCI. In approximately February or March 2010, WCR production was halted by members of the Agency staff in response to a Department of Justice investigation led by Assistant U.S. Attorney John Durham. Agency staff interviewed by CIA OIG interpreted the "Panetta Review" (a.k.a. Panetta Report) as a compilation of the WCRs.

(U) RDINet System

6. (U//FOUO) To facilitate SSCI staff access to the large number of released documents, the CIA created a computer network called RDINet. RDINet was established in a secure CIA vault in the of the CIA's building, with separate physical locations for CIA analysts to review and redact responsive documents and a physical "reading room" for SSCI staff to review responsive documents. The SSCI Majority and Minority staffs

$ ^{1} $ (U//FOUO) The Senate has historically referred to this as a study on the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program. The study was launched following then D/CIA Michael Hayden's disclosure of the program to the SSCI in September 2006. On 5 March 2009, the SSCI voted to initiate a comprehensive review of the program. $ ^{2} $ (U//FOUO) The RDI Review Team has had several historical names, including the Director's Review Group and the Office of Detainee Affairs. The team included attorneys from the Office of General Counsel that oversaw the RDI review performed by SSCI and an information technology team that supported the RDI system used for review. $ ^{3} $ (U//FOUO) In January 2008, Assistant U.S. Attorney John Durham was appointed by the DOJ to lead an investigation into the destruction of videotapes of the interrogation of detainees. In mid-2009, the Durham task force was expanded to include a review of the detention and the use of various interrogation techniques by the Agency.