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C.I.A. Is Collecting in Bulk Certain Data Affecting Americans, Senators Warn
The Central Intelligence Agency has for years been collecting in bulk, without a warrant, some kind of data that can affect Americans' privacy, according to a newly declassified letter by two senators.
The C.I.A. kept censored the nature of the data when it declassified the letter. At the same time, it declared that a report about the same topic, which had prompted the letter, must remain fully classified, except for some heavily redacted recommendations.
That report, called "Deep Dive II," was part of a set of studies by a watchdog board scrutinizing intelligence community operations under Executive Order 12333, rules for intelligence activities that Congress has left unregulated by statute. The watchdog, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, and its staff members have access to classified information.
In March 2021, the Senate Intelligence Committee received a copy of the report. In a letter the next month, two Democrats on the panel, Senators Ron Wyden of Oregon and Martin Heinrich of New Mexico, urged Avril D. Haines, the director of national intelligence, and William J. Burns, the C.I.A. director, to declassify the activity and any internal rules about querying the data for information about Americans.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 15 2022, @02:39AM (2 children)
He did a smash and grab of a GB of data and dumped it all on the Chinese. There was a shit ton of stuff in there that was secret and legal and unknown to the Russians and Chinese. What about that stuff? He didn't do any culling of the data, he didn't make any case for what he did, he just dumped it all. If he was so concered with program X, Y, or Z, why didn't he take information on those programs, but no, he gave away the company store, then cries of persecution. He didn't even try going through the channels available to him to report his concerns for what he thought were violations. He was either turned, a useful idiot, or a narcissist with a hero complex. He's a guy who robbed a bank, took all its money, and dropped $100 in the hat of a homeless person, and you want to give him a parade for being a supporter of the poor and downtrodden. The blind hero worship of the ends-justify-the-means crowd is depressing. Its the same thing you see with people willing to try to overturn the democratic transfer of power and hail themselves as patriots: the obsessive fixation of one thing they use to justify and overlook everything else. I get modded down every time I even suggest that his shit doesn't stink, but who cares? Someone has to point out the naked emperor and let you know he deserves to sit in jail if he ever comes "home."
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 15 2022, @03:07AM
The problem is, we disagree from basic principles. We don't believe the ends justify the means, which is why we oppose surveillance, spying, and warmongering. You favor stability and governance. These outlooks are fundamentally incompatible.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 15 2022, @03:24AM
No culling? I want everything the NSA, CIA, and FIB have to be leaked. All the super secret programs, every zero day vulnerability. These are enemies of the people we're talking about.