'This Invasion of Our Privacy Must Stop,' Says ACLU After CIA Domestic Spying Revelations

[Judi Lynn]

New revelations, said the civil liberties group, "raise serious questions about what information of ours the CIA is vacuuming up in bulk and how the agency exploits that information to spy on Americans."

JON QUEALLY

February 11, 2022

The ACLU was among those expressing grave concern Thursday night after a pair of Democrats in the U.S. Senate revealed troubling evidence that the CIA has conducted bulk surveillance of the American people without their knowledge and with little oversight.

Following release of a letter about the spy agency's bulk collection program declassified at the behest of Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Or.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), the ACLU said there should be serious concern that "the CIA has been secretly conducting massive surveillance programs that capture Americans' private information."

The previously undisclosed domestic spying by the CIA, added the group, "is done without any court approval, and with few, if any, safeguards imposed by Congress to protect our civil liberties."

According to a statement put out by Wyden and Heinrich, the two senators "requested the declassification of a report by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board [PCLOB] on a CIA bulk collection program, in a letter sent April 13, 2021. The letter, which was declassified and made public [Thursday] reveals that 'the CIA has secretly conducted its own bulk program,' authorized under Executive Order 12333, rather than the laws passed by Congress."

More:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/11/invasion-our-privacy-must-stop-says-aclu-after-cia-domestic-spying-revelations

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Executive Order 12333 - Ronald Reagan (probably pushed by GHWBush)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_12333

[IbogaProject]

2. I was just going to post the same link.

It likely made the whole Iran Contra crimes and scandal easier to perpetrate. In addition to domestic political opposition surveillance.

[dweller]

3. Executive order 12333

https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/CLPO/CLPO_Information_Paper_on_2008_Revision_to_EO_12333.pdf
Brought to you by Reagan, revised by GW BUSH


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[niyad]

4. Colour me sooooooo NOT surprised.

[cbabe]

5. Cointelpro. Democracy Now, March 9, 2021 story

on the 50th anniversary of the activists who broke into the FBI offices and exposed the illegal program.

[monkeyman1]

6. well shit , now we have the American KGB !! thank's to the republican's !

[Zorro]

7. Amazon, Facebook, Google all have your number already

They probably know you better now than you yourself.