Maybe you once thought the CIA wasn't supposed to spy on Americans here in the United States.
Over time, the CIA upper echelon has secretly developed all kinds of policy statements and legal rationales to justify routine, widespread surveillance on U.S. soil of citizens who aren't suspected of terrorism or being a spy.
They reveal the CIA not only intercepted emails of U.S. citizens but they were emails of the most sensitive kind - written to Congress and involving whistleblowers reporting alleged wrongdoing within the Intelligence Community.
The March 2014 intercepts, conducted under the leadership of CIA Director and Director of National Intelligence , happened amid what's widely referred to as the Obama administration's war on whistleblowers and mass surveillance scandals.
According to the CIA, the spy agency has been limited since the 1970s to collecting intelligence "Only for an authorized intelligence purpose; for example, if there is a reason to believe that an individual is involved in espionage or international terrorist activities" and "Procedures require senior approval for any such collection that is allowed."
It's just an accident or "Incidental," after all, if the CIA happens to pick up whistleblower communications with the legislative branch.
"The fact that the CIA under the Obama administration was reading congressional staff's emails about Intelligence Community whistleblowers raises serious policy concerns, as well as potential constitutional separation-of-powers issues that must be discussed publicly," wrote Grassley in a statement.
https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/414804-surveillance-state-is-alive-well-and-operating-against-us-all
Over time, the CIA upper echelon has secretly developed all kinds of policy statements and legal rationales to justify routine, widespread surveillance on U.S. soil of citizens who aren't suspected of terrorism or being a spy.
They reveal the CIA not only intercepted emails of U.S. citizens but they were emails of the most sensitive kind - written to Congress and involving whistleblowers reporting alleged wrongdoing within the Intelligence Community.
The March 2014 intercepts, conducted under the leadership of CIA Director and Director of National Intelligence , happened amid what's widely referred to as the Obama administration's war on whistleblowers and mass surveillance scandals.
According to the CIA, the spy agency has been limited since the 1970s to collecting intelligence "Only for an authorized intelligence purpose; for example, if there is a reason to believe that an individual is involved in espionage or international terrorist activities" and "Procedures require senior approval for any such collection that is allowed."
It's just an accident or "Incidental," after all, if the CIA happens to pick up whistleblower communications with the legislative branch.
"The fact that the CIA under the Obama administration was reading congressional staff's emails about Intelligence Community whistleblowers raises serious policy concerns, as well as potential constitutional separation-of-powers issues that must be discussed publicly," wrote Grassley in a statement.
https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/414804-surveillance-state-is-alive-well-and-operating-against-us-all
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