Posted on 05/01/2020 7:34:31 PM PDT by CaptainK
The acting Director of National Intelligence has ordered all 17 of the intelligence community agencies to immediately review whether their handling and sharing of information that identifies U.S. persons — such as citizens and those with permanent residency — are in compliance with strict privacy policies and procedures, according to a memorandum exclusively reviewed by CBS News.
Richard Grenell, who became the acting intelligence chief in February, signed the memorandum with the subject, "Protecting the Privacy and Civil Liberties of U.S. Persons," on April 29. It directs agencies including the CIA, the NSA, military intelligence and Homeland Security to report back findings, and identify specific actions that will ensure the rules are followed, within 30 days.
The memo does not make clear the catalyst for the broad review. But Grenell wrote, "As the Acting Director of National Intelligence, I serve as the approving official for dissemination of unmasked congressional identity information...I have become increasingly concerned with intelligence reports that inconsistently apply the policies and procedures governing how U.S. person identities are masked."
continued, "To that end, I am directing all IC (Intelligence Community) elements to review their implementation of the applicable standard for disseminating U.S. person identifying information and, as necessary, modify internal procedures to ensure the rules..are consistently applied."
In the course of intelligence collection, an agency may conduct surveillance on a target or gather their communications. In the process, the intelligence may also incidentally capture an American citizen's name or job title, and there is an obligation to "minimize" or hide it.
wrote that while the "guidelines might use slightly different words and phases, the rules generally provide that our disseminated intelligence products should only include U.S. person identifying information if it is necessary, or reasonably believed to become necessary, for the recipient to understand, assess or act on the information."
In 2017, the House Intelligence Committee, then led by Republican Devin Nunes, launched an investigation into these identifications or so-called "unmasking." Among witnesses called were former National Security Adviser Susan Rice and former UN Ambassador Samantha Power. All transcripts from the closed door sessions have not been publicly released by the committee's current Democratic Chairman Adam Schiff.
The two-page memo also emphasized that, "It is critical that we afford the same rigorous privacy and civil liberties protections to all U.S. persons regardless of whether they are a private citizen, Member of Congress, or an official serving within our Government's Executive Branch."
The memo continued, "Moving forward, all IC (Intelligence Community) Elements should, by default, characterize U.S. person identities in disseminated intelligence reporting in a sufficiently generic manner to mask their identity, consistent with existing law and policy."
On Tuesday, a Senate confirmation hearing is scheduled for President Trump's nominee to replace Grenell, Republican congressman John Ratcliffe.
and orders broad review...
i wouldn’t mind reviewing a broad right about now
I think Richard Grenell had a plan. Just not sure what it is, but if it makes the Intel agencies nervous it can’t be bad.
Remember when FISA judge found that in 2015 massive raw data from the NSA about US citizens who were unmasked were shared to third-parties?
Obama was spying on people and sharing it
I believe Edward Snowden already told us about this.
Day late and a dollar short.
Plan is make the dirty cops realize that the only thing worse (for them) than confirming Radcliffe ...
is not confirming Radcliffe
What was it, hammer that he was using on US citizens since at least 2012?
One of Obama’s last acts was purporting to legalize this.
And I/we at FR have learned that private/foreign contractors working INside the Intelegence agencies, handle this information.
Wow. A sternly worded memo.
L
Or selling it?
That too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGgZ5M6KMt8
Maxine Waters Confirms ‘Obama’s Big Brother’ Database 2013
“Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) praised President Barack Obama for putting together a campaign database that “will have information about everything on every individual.” “
This wasn’t/isn’t a “campaign database”. This was a system built by the Intel Community and used by the dems for their own political/blackmail purposes.
He’s identifying the gaps that congress needs to fill and doing as much as he can under present laws. You can’t lock people up when they have too much wiggle room.
“This wasn’t/isn’t a “campaign database”. This was a system built by the Intel Community and used by the dems for their own political/blackmail purposes.”
The Hammer!
I hear Nanzi is available for review.
I don’t think I appreciate getting this rather serious information from CBS.
If this was a planned notice for public viewing, it should have gone to a more reliable, trustworthy avenue for our enlightenment.
I don’t believe CBS and I know many others who do not.
The rather repulsive woman who “ does not want Kayleigh to Lie,” is a perfect example of just who is doing the lying around here.
LOL
I’d take a farm animal first.
She hasn’t looked human in 15 years.
Yeah, I know, but Nanzi is Italian, dp0622 is Italian, just figured ...
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