Posted on 08/04/2020 10:16:17 AM PDT by bitt
ODNI recently refused to answer if U.S. spy agencies monitor lawmakers, saying any admission could reveal methods.
The dramatic disclosure earlier this year that the Obama administration sought to unmask ex-National Security Adviser Mike Flynn's conversations intercepted overseas is reviving a long-unanswered question: Do U.S. spy agencies also monitor members of Congress?
That question has lingered at least since May 2017, when Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) demanded to know whether his conversations overseas while running for president in 2016 were umasked by the Obama administration.
Now, the question has been renewed by the Project for Privacy and Surveillance Accountability (PPSA), a non-profit where former House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) works as a senior adviser.
The group in February filed a Freedom of Information Act request demanding that the Office of Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) release information related to whether U.S. intelligence has been surveilling past and current U.S. senators and House members.
Specifically, the group asked ODNI whether the spy agencies it supervises unmasked the identities of current and past lawmakers known to have been caught up in foreign surveillance, and whether the names of these members were searched through what is known as the "upstream" phone database. The request covered a bipartisan group of 48 current and former lawmakers and their potential surveillance from Jan. 1, 2008 to Jan. 15, 2020.
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Well duh. Of course they spy on Congress. 535 corrupt morons.
“Who hired Craig Livingstone?”
It’s time for our ‘spy’ agencies to come clean...
It's time for out "spy" agencies to be shut down and everyone and I mean every single person be sent on their merry way. And no we don't owe these clowns a retirement.
I’m of the belief that the only ones successful at getting information is Judicial Watch.
He who unmasks last unmasks best.
Thanks bitt.
This is what burns me up... we have spy agencies focusing on “right wing extremism” to the point they can’t find a Chinese spy in Feinstein’s office for 20 years.
Sounds a lot like an early American description of the mo
<><> IRS targeting inoocents (enraging legions of IRS haters)
LESSON OF THE DAY --- don't elect a kingpin of organized Chicago criminal politics to run the govt.
Eminent signs of a cunning con artist. A "cool, smooth talker" ran a monstrous govt we the people lived under---a police state capable of extraordinary crimes against its people:
<><> Obama drove up govt wiretaps rose 71% during one year of Obama's reign
<><> Obama used drones to shoot down Americans
<><> Obama's state dept's cover-up of sex scandals---obstructing justice---scrubbing investigations
<><> Obama's DOJ labeling journo Rosen a criminal; charging him, spying on his family--
<><> Obama monitored the Asso Press,
<><> Obama via Verizon spied on the USSC via their blackberries
<><> Obama spied on Congress via Verizon blackberries
Sounds a lot like an early American description of the mo
<><> IRS targeting inoocents (enraging legions of IRS haters)
LESSON OF THE DAY --- don't elect a kingpin of organized Chicago criminal politics to run the govt.
Eminent signs of a cunning con artist. A "cool, smooth talker" ran a monstrous govt we the people lived under---a police state capable of extraordinary crimes against its people:
<><> Obama drove up govt wiretaps rose 71% during one year of Obama's reign
<><> Obama used drones to shoot down Americans
<><> Obama's state dept's cover-up of sex scandals---obstructing justice---scrubbing investigations
<><> Obama's DOJ labeling journo Rosen a criminal; charging him, spying on his family--
<><> Obama monitored the Asso Press,
<><> Obama via Verizon spied on the USSC via their blackberries
<><> Obama spied on Congress via Verizon blackberries
I can answer that. Of course they do. They spy on everyone everywhere.
This response is completely unacceptable BS. Sources and methods? That's BS.
Sec. 1.7. Classification Prohibitions and Limitations. (a) In no case shall information be classified, continue to be maintained as classified, or fail to be declassified in order to:
(1) conceal violations of law, inefficiency, or administrative error;
So, the ODNI must know there is lawful monitoring-- and that can be revealed in a SCIF under the provisions in the same order that allows for REVIEWS and CHALLENGES.
Fire the DNI and find someone that knows the CORRECT answer.
“ODNI recently refused to answer if U.S. spy agencies monitor lawmakers, saying any admission could reveal methods.”
Disgusting. No different than Stasi or NKVD spying against the government.
Congress can and should zero out their budget for running spy operations against the Legislature and any white House they disapprove of.
Our intelligence agencies are not trying to protect the nation, they are focused AGAINST anything to do with the Republic the founders gave us.
translation: They’ve been spying on Congress for years, and we the citizens have absolutely no idea which of the laws we are living under are the result of blackmail by spooks.
The Bush era was no better. The uniparty in DC loves the intel community. After 9/11 they were unleashed against the American people, and we are not the targets. The dreaded white nationalists and TEA types are heavily targeted.
islamists are on their team, carefully watching to make sure nothing ever looks at them.
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