Posted on 02/21/2022 2:22:15 PM PST by Mount Athos
The CIA has a secret, undisclosed data repository that includes information collected about Americans, two Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee said. While neither the agency nor lawmakers would disclose specifics about the data, the senators alleged the CIA had long hidden details about the program from the public and Congress. Sens. Ron Wyden of Oregon and Martin Heinrich of New Mexico sent a letter to top intelligence officials calling for more details about the program to be declassified. Large parts of the letter, which was sent in April 2021 and declassified Thursday, and documents released by the CIA were blacked out. Wyden and Heinrich said the program operated "outside the statutory framework that Congress and the public believe govern this collection."
There have long been concerns about what information the intelligence community collects domestically, driven in part by previous violations of Americans' civil liberties. The CIA and National Security Agency have a foreign mission and are generally barred from investigating Americans or U.S. businesses.
In 2013, Wyden asked then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper if the NSA collected "any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans." Clapper initially responded, "No." He later said, "Not wittingly."
Clapper would later apologize in a letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee, calling his response to Wyden "clearly erroneous."
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Defund.
They'll say "We can't defend you against terrorists unless we can spy on you!"
And I say, honestly: "I don't care. You're a bigger threat than any terrorist. I'd rather a thousand Americans die from terrorist attacks than you fascist monsters have any power at all. There are many threats and we have to rationally rank them all in terms of menace, and you assholes have managed to put yourselves at the top of the list."
You're the dangerous ones. You're the ones with the schemes to enslave us.
Foreign terrorists can't enslave us. They can kill some of us, a bunch of us if they get very lucky, but they can't enslave us. They can't control us in our daily lives.
But you can.
And you want to.
The DOJ, FBI, and CIA are the Axis of Evil that most threatens the safety and liberty of the American people.
The government doesn’t spend a hundred billion on data collection centers recording all Metadata on all Americans and not put it to good fun in politics.
There is right and wrong but there are no good guys, not me, not you, not them. There are one’s own kind and there are others.
Everything you say, everything you do, everywhere you go, everything you buy, everything you spend money on and on what, everyone you know, when you get up, when you go to sleep, how many pets you have, where you shop for various things, what kind of fuel you use in your vehicle, who you vote for, everyone you talk to, what brands you buy, everything about you personally in detail, all your tax information, your medical information your sexual proclivities, etc etc etc etc etc. There is nothing they don’t know — except what you’re thinking — and they’re working on that.
Thanks to Google, the NSA, and the CIA, there is no privacy anymore.
“There is no privacy anymore…”
Worth repeating
“…. about the program”… more like the political pogrom
Washington Post Has Always Been A CIA Asset!
greatgameindia.com ^ | FEBRUARY 21, 2022 | GGI Staff
The Washington Post has always been a CIA asset!
The United States does not have a media. It has a propaganda service for the military/security complex, the pharmaceutical industry, and the global elite. It is impossible to wring one word of truth out of the US media.
How Washington Post Protects CIA Secrets, March 15, 2014
Journalism has entered highly dangerous terrain.
A tip-off is that the Washington Post refuses to face up to a conflict of interest involving Jeff Bezos — who’s now the sole owner of the powerful newspaper at the same time he remains Amazon‘s CEO and main stakeholder. This is how Washington Post protect CIA secrets.
How Washington Post Protect CIA Secrets:
The Post is supposed to expose CIA secrets. But Amazon is under contract to keep them. Amazon has a new $600 million “cloud” computing deal with the CIA.
The situation is unprecedented. But in an email exchange early this month, Washington Post executive editor Martin Baron told me that the newspaper doesn’t need to routinely inform readers of the CIA-Amazon-Bezos ties when reporting on the CIA. He wrote that such in-story acknowledgment would be “far outside the norm of disclosures about potential conflicts of interest at media organizations.”
But there isn’t anything normal about the new situation. As I wrote to Baron, “few journalists could have anticipated ownership of the paper by a multi-billionaire whose outside company would be so closely tied to the CIA.”
The Washington Post ‘s refusal to provide readers with minimal disclosure in coverage of the CIA is important on its own. But it’s also a marker for an ominous pattern — combining denial with accommodation to raw financial and governmental power — a synergy of media leverage, corporate digital muscle and secretive agencies implementing policies of mass surveillance, covert action and ongoing warfare.
Digital prowess at collecting global data and keeping secrets is crucial to the missions of Amazon and the CIA. The two institutions have only begun to explore how to work together more effectively.
https://greatgameindia.com/washington-post-cia-asset/
For the CIA, the emerging newspaper role of Mr. Amazon is value added to any working relationship with him. The CIA’s zeal to increase its leverage over major American media outlets is longstanding.
After creation of the CIA in 1947, it enjoyed direct collaboration with many U.S. news organizations. But the agency faced a major challenge in October 1977, when — soon after leaving the Washington Post — famed Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein provided an extensive expose in Rolling Stone.
Citing CIA documents, Bernstein wrote that during the previous 25 years “more than 400 American journalists… have secretly carried out assignments for the Central Intelligence Agency.” He added: “The history of the CIA’s involvement with the American press continues to be shrouded by an official policy of obfuscation and deception.”
Bernstein’s story tarnished the reputations of many journalists and media institutions, including the Washington Post and New York Times. While the CIA’s mission was widely assumed to involve “obfuscation and deception,” the mission of the nation’s finest newspapers was ostensibly the opposite.
During the last few decades, as far as we know, the extent of extreme media cohabitation with the CIA has declined sharply. At the same time, as the run-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq attests, many prominent U.S. journalists and media outlets have continued to regurgitate, for public consumption, what’s fed to them by the CIA and other official “national security” sources.
The recent purchase of the Washington Post by Jeff Bezos has poured some high-finance concrete for a new structural bridge between the media industry and the surveillance/warfare state. The development puts the CIA in closer institutionalized proximity to the Post, arguably the most important political media outlet in the United States.
At this point, about 30,000 people have signed a petition (launched by RootsAction.org) with a minimal request: “The Washington Post’s coverage of the CIA should include full disclosure that the sole owner of the Post is also the main owner of Amazon — and Amazon is now gaining huge profits directly from the CIA.” On behalf of the petition’s signers, I’m scheduled to deliver it to the Washington Post headquarters on January 15. The petition is an opening salvo in a long-term battle.
By its own account, Amazon — which has yielded Jeff Bezos personal wealth of around $25 billion so far — is eager to widen its services to the CIA beyond the initial $600 million deal. “We look forward to a successful relationship with the CIA,” a statement from Amazon said two months ago. As Bezos continues to gain even more wealth from Amazon, how likely is that goal to affect his newspaper’s coverage of the CIA?
Norman Solomon for Huffpost. Norman is co-founder of RootsAction.org.
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Norman Solomon is a far left writer. Not trustworthy at all.
Sen. Wyden is a MARXIST, closet-type and always has been!
The CIA has been corrupted and needs a total enema, as does the FBI and NSA, particularly at the top levels. Same for DOJ. Never been so corrupt in our history.
Any housecleaning has to be very targeted and thorough.
Who writes those titles, a stuttering imbecile?
The CIA are not good guys.
And who corrupted our entire government?
The Kenyan from Indonesian that the Constitution says CANNOT be President.
And who corrupted our entire government?
The Kenyan from Indonesian that the Constitution says CANNOT be President.
The Clintons started the more modern corruption of the government. Read The American Spectator, April 1997, Byron York, article “Let’s Be Friends” about the Clintons and the Mafia, Arthur Coia Sr. and esp. Junior, LIUNA labor union, and Attorney General Janet Reno.
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