The vote comes as the CIA has acknowledged four former officers were embedded with the New York City Police Department, despite a ban on the agency’s involvement in domestic spying. According to The New York Times, one of the officers helped conduct local surveillance but justified his role because he on an unpaid leave of absence. The findings were contained in a summary of an internal CIA probe in 2011 that cleared the CIA and NYPD of wrongdoing after their collaboration was revealed. In the years after 9/11, the CIA helped the NYPD develop a so-called “Demographics Unit” that used informants to spy on Muslims. The Electronic Privacy Information Center, which helped obtain the probe’s findings, said: “Despite the assurances of the CIA’s press office, the activities documented in this report cross the line [into domestic surveillance] and highlight the need for more oversight.”