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“Cloak Of Darkness” Grows As US Widens Surveillance Dragnet To ‘Homegrown Violent Extremists’<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n
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In the last months of President Obama’s ‘reign’, <\/strong>Reuters reports<\/a> that, thanks to a presidential executive order, bypassing congressional and court review, a Department of Defense manual on procedures governing its intelligence activities permits the collection of information about Americans for counterintelligence purposes even “when no specific connection to foreign terrorist(s) has been established.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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As Reuters exclusively details,<\/em><\/a> the change last year to a Department of Defense manual on procedures governing its intelligence activities was made possible by a decades-old presidential executive order, bypassing congressional and court review.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The new manual, released in August 2016, now permits the collection of information about Americans for counterintelligence purposes \u201cwhen no specific connection to foreign terrorist(s) has been established,\u201d<\/strong> according to training slides created last year by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI).<\/p>\n

Executive order 12333, signed by former President Ronald Reagan in 1981 and later modified by former President George W. Bush, <\/strong>establishes how U.S. intelligence agencies such as the CIA are allowed to pursue foreign intelligence investigations. The order also allows surveillance of U.S. citizens in certain cases, including for activities defined as counterintelligence.<\/p>\n

Under the previous Defense Department manual\u2019s definition of counterintelligence activity, which was published in 1982, the U.S. government was required to demonstrate a target was working on behalf of the goals of a foreign power or terrorist group.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In August 2016, during the final months of former President Barack Obama\u2019s administration, <\/strong>a Pentagon press release announced that the department had updated its intelligence collecting procedures but it made no specific reference to \u201chomegrown violent extremists.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>The revision was signed off by the Department of Justice\u2019s senior leadership, including the attorney general, and reviewed by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, a government privacy watchdog.<\/p>\n

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