Chaired by former Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Indiana, alongside former Obama White House attorney Bob Bauer and three senior CIA officers, the board was convened in August 2014 by CIA Director John Brennan and tasked with investigating the misconduct and putting forward recommendations to ensure that “future instances of the miscommunication and confusion that led to this controversy” do not arise again.
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According to the board, which finished its investigation in mid-December of last year, further stated that “none of the five individuals under review by the board was responsible for this mistake, and two of them — the most senior — had expressly counseled that care be taken to avoid accessing [Senate Intelligence Committee] work product.”
