Posted on 01/12/2017 11:26:31 AM PST by deplorableindc
President-elect Donald Trumps nominee to lead the CIA defended his proposal to create a "comprehensive, searchable" database of domestic personal records during confirmation proceedings Thursday.
But Rep. Mike Pompeo gave few specifics about his proposed repository of "publicly available financial and lifestyle information" and appeared to back off his call for legislation to allow for inclusion of domestic call records.
Several senators asked the Kansas Republican about the database proposal, outlined last year by Pompeo and attorney David Rivkin in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.
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No thanks, we’ve got enough “Big Brother” BS in this country already. We need to be rolling it back, not inventing more of it.
Can we just get rid of the CIA, like JFK suggested?
The CIA has no business gathering records of Americans.
These people must believe we’re really ignorant
NSA + Utah
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=nsa+utah&FORM=HDRSC2
Isn’t the CIA supposed to stay of of domestic spying?
Why all the flap NOW... it’s nothing more than the whole F’n Obamacare fiasco planned and accomplished, to some extent.
Typical spook a-hole. It was always illegal for the CIA to operate domestically. Now they openly admit to having stasi goals.
They have only caused misery and do not protect us. They should be disbanded.
I always think of Col Flagg from MASH when I hear CIA
"The President has put in place an organization with the kind of database that no one has ever seen before in life," Representative Maxine Waters told Roland Martin on Monday."That's going to be very, very powerful," Waters said. "That database will have information about everything on every individual on ways that it's never been done before and whoever runs for President on the Democratic ticket has to deal with that.
They're going to go down with that database and the concerns of those people because they can't get around it. And he's [President Obama] been very smart. It's very powerful what he's leaving in place."
— Congressperson Maxine Waters, 4 February 2013
Just give them the phone number for the NSA. I'm sure They'll work something out from what they already have on us.
#10-— MAXINE has said it all. /not humor
That’s where the crack is stored.
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