Posted on 11/02/2018 10:23:19 PM PDT by blam
The intercepts occurred under CIA Director John Brennan and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. The new disclosures are contained in two letters of “Congressional notification” originally written to key members of Congress in March 2014, but kept secret until now.
In the letters, then-Intelligence Community Inspector General Charles McCullough tells four key members of Congress that during “routing counterintelligence monitoring of Government computer systems,” the CIA collected emails between Congressional staff and the CIA’s head of whistleblowing and source protection. McCullough states that he’s concerned “about the potential compromise to whistleblower confidentiality and the consequent ‘chilling effect’ that the present [counterintelligence] monitoring system might have on Intelligence Community whistleblowing.”
The idea that the CIA would monitor communications of U.S. government officials, including those in the legislative branch, is itself controversial. But in this case, the CIA picked up some of the most sensitive emails between Congress and intelligence agency workers blowing the whistle on alleged wrongdoing.
John Brennan, former Obama CIA Director and Homeland Security Adviser
“Most of these emails concerned pending and developing whistleblower complaints,” McCullough states in his letters to lead Democrats and Republicans on the House and Senate Intelligence Committees at the time: Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-California) and Saxby Chambliss (R-Georgia); and Representatives Michael Rogers (R-Michigan) and Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Maryland). McCullough adds that the type of monitoring that occurred was “lawful and justified for [counterintelligence] purposes” but
“I am not confident that Congressional staff fully understood that their whistleblower-related communications with my Executive Director of whistleblowing might be reviewed as a result of routine [CIA counterintelligence] monitoring.”–Intelligence Community Inspector General 2014
The disclosures from 2014 were released late Thursday by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa).
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They spied on more than just whistle blowers, and I’m pretty sure they’re still doing that throughout government. Its not like you can get into trouble for illegally spying on people, so why stop?
Don’t we have two whistleblowers dead, who were allegedly going to rat on John Brennan’s activities as station chief in Saudi Arabia prior to 9/11? Could this be how they were identified?
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Please ping this to Drudge, someone. (I would but I am on phone instead of PC.)
We all know what they have done, it is up to us to make sure they all face the music together, I hope Trump does just that and gives the order
The story of driving around with a passive listening device in 1997 is difficult to believe. They would have to be near the victim and traveling in same direction since cell phones are alway hunting for the best cell tower. In 1997 they would also have very sophisticated equipment to pickup the cell signal. This was military technology back then.
You write as if Congress were a monolithic body.
They are not.
The CIA and the Media and the Democrats are more closely linked together, ideologically, than is Congress.
With support of more than 50% of the members of Congress for the past 50 years, the CIA never had to worry.
Obama: “Nobody In My Administration Got Indicted”
Bttt.
5.56mm
With a 50% vote, Congress could strip the CIA of civil service protection, and allow the President to fire a whole list of people, and replace them with whoever he chose.
Article says ‘sourced from zerohedge which of course is always sourced from somewhere else, in this case, Sharyl Atkisson so let’s give credit where credit’s due eh?
Always try to find the original source. Sharyl is one of the few real investigative journalists we have and she was affected by the obama regime so she deserves exposure - the good kind.
Michael Hastings comes to mind, along with a few other names I can’t mention.
Perhaps history will tell the true story about the depth of corruption in the Obama Regime. The media certainly will not.
>> Grassley adds that he repeated his request to declassify the letters under the Trump administration, but that Trump intelligence officials failed to respond. The documents were finally declassified this week after Grassley appealed to the new Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson. <<
The swamp remains, I repeat, the swamp remains
The dead fed prosecutor rolling up on a beach in DWS’s district has somehow vanished from discussion. It’s part of the ‘no scandal’ thing.
Think of the dead bodies around them all. Clinton’s not the only one cleaning up details.
Example: I quit counting dead bankers on a spreadsheet I had-at 36. I did something similar to beheadings and quit counting when ISIS obviously genocides Christians and Jews, wherever ISIS is-including the US now. In the UK, FGM now occurs from 10-29 seconds, but nah, that’s not conquest.
During the last years of Obama the top four bureaucrats in the CIA served as Democrat Party hacks. The CIA deserves a housecleaning as well as the FBI. Its recent failures are legion.
Another hard-to-believe event from around that time period was the ‘accidental’ death on April 27, 1996 of Colby.
Reading some of the accounts of his death at the time, one has to question the official story...
2014 was when leaker James A Wolfe [whose wife is an FBI official] was commended by the Senate Select committee on Intelligence for his “hard work” on CIA interrogations of terrorists. Meanwhile James Wolfe was leaking like a sieve to 3 journalists....
and one of them was the reporter who broke a story in 2014 that the CIA was spying on the Senate.
Keep digging, Sharyl.
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