Posted on 02/10/2022 4:43:08 PM PST by RandFan
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., both members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, called for new transparency about bulk surveillance conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency, following the release of documents that revealed a secret bulk collection program and problems with how the agency searches and handles Americans’ information.
Wyden and Heinrich requested the declassification of a report by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board on a CIA bulk collection program, in a letter sent April 13, 2021. The letter, which was declassified and made public today reveals that “the CIA has secretly conducted its own bulk program,” authorized under Executive Order 12333, rather than the laws passed by Congress.
The letter notes that the program was “entirely outside the statutory framework that Congress and the public believe govern this collection, and without any of the judicial, congressional or even executive branch oversight that comes from [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] collection.”
“FISA gets all the attention because of the periodic congressional reauthorizations and the release of DOJ, ODNI and FISA Court documents,” said Senators Wyden and Heinrich in response to the newly declassified documents. “But what these documents demonstrate is that many of the same concerns that Americans have about their privacy and civil liberties also apply to how the CIA collects and handles information under executive order and outside the FISA law. In particular, these documents reveal serious problems associated with warrantless backdoor searches of Americans, the same issue that has generated bipartisan concern in the FISA context.”
Wyden and Heinrich called for more transparency from the CIA, including what kind of records were collected and the legal framework for the collection. The PCLOB report noted problems with CIA’s handling and searching of Americans’ information under the program.
“While we appreciate the release of the ‘Recommendations from PCLOB Staff’ which highlights problems associated with the handling of Americans’ information, our letter also stressed that the public deserves to know more about the collection of this information. The DNI and the CIA Director have started this process. We intend to continue to urge them to achieve the transparency the American people deserve.”
All of Fedzilla is completely out of control.
CIA, FBI, NSA, FISA, you name it.
Ron just got put on a list.
They’ve got six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.
This is in the constitution, right?
Yep.
The senators need to stop whining & do something about it...
Oh, they're plenty transparent: I can see right through 'em. They are far more agency than intelligence. They are bureaucrats and their goal in life is keeping patriots in their place while swinging and missing on the intel that could do us some good vs the Chinese
Something big must be getting ready to be exposed. These senators are trying to get ahead.
This is huge. Lefties like this don’t suddenly do 180-degree flips. Something big is coming and these people don’t want to be in front of that locomotive.
never mind all these (expletivs)’committees’ that are nothing but circummuscularmassageandejaculationgrouptherapymeetings!
how about screaming 4th Amendment violations, huh?????
Blatantly illegal.
Lets see if politicians ever try to stop CIA/FBI overreach. I kind of doubt it.
“The senators need to stop whining & do something about it...”
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Trump should have at least begun starting the job of dismantling the secret police agencies (CIA, FBI, DHS, Capitol “Police” etc.) when he had the chance.
Of course, JFK wanted to bring them to heel and found out about that 6 ways to Sunday thing bigtime.
CIA doesn’t need tax dollars to operate. They hold many patents from alien technology, including velcro.
FISA warrants, eh?
As in spying on President Trump, Mike Flynn, and numerous others......
There are federal statutes that preclude the CIA from conducting ANY domestic intelligence.
I say we put the bastards in prison, or hang them on the Capitol steps...after a fair trial, of course.
Trump should have at least begun starting the job of dismantling the secret police agencies (CIA, FBI, DHS, Capitol “Police” etc.) when he had the chance.
How was he going to do that? Senators from his own party threatened to impeach him if he fired Mueller. Sorry, both parties would have ganged up on him.
That’s the usual argument for the failures; “he was helpless, nobody will let him do anything. Why even try? Better to surrender from the start.”.
The Constitution ceased to have meaning when they put the Kenyan from Indonesia in.
No, it’s not giving up, I’m not giving up. I’m saying being realistic and doing what can be done until we can do what we want.
Theater. Wyden 100% supports this spying and government expansion. He is a lying snake of the worst kind.
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