Carolyn Kaster, Associated Press

WASHINGTON — House Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday he is concerned over allegations of CIA snooping into computer files used by Senate investigators delving into allegations of past spy agency torture.

At the same time, Boehner said he would keep his fuller opinions to himself until an internal report is completed by the CIA's inspector general.

The Ohio Republican spoke one day after Sen. Dianne Feinstein said the CIA's actions appeared designed to hamper the Senate Intelligence Committee's probe and may have violated the Constitution and federal law. The California Democrat chairs the panel.

Boehner made his comment as the White House said top aides have been in touch with key senators in the past day about completing declassification of the Senate panel's report into the Bush-era treatment of detainees in the war on terror after the attacks of Sept. 9, 2011.

"The President wants to ensure the review is completed, declassified and its conclusions released so we can close this chapter," Caitlin Hayden, National Security Council spokeswoman, said in a statement.

So far, the controversy has brought Feinstein and other senators into conflict with the CIA, although it clearly has the potential to expand.

Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said, "Well, it's really been something that those two (Feinstein and CIA Director John Brennan) were working out. I didn't think it was my place to do that.

"Clearly, things have changed," he said.

Whatever their partisan differences or disagreements on policy, lawmakers generally are united when it comes to defending Congress' role as overseer of the executive branch of government.

Even before the day's developments, the episode had the markings of a classic Washington controversy as interpretations of facts diverge, some lawmakers choose sides, others suggest the new probe and the White House seeks a middle ground.





Several Democrats praised her, while some Republicans pointedly did not.





But he appeared to be in a minority within his party.





Carney said Obama wants the report's findings to be declassified eventually.








Associated Press writers Bradley Klapper, Donna Cassata, Stephen Braun and Julie Pace contributed to this report.