{"id":40223,"date":"2018-11-07T08:47:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T13:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40223"},"modified":"2018-11-07T08:47:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T13:47:18","slug":"cias-surveillance-state-is-operating-against-us-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40223","title":{"rendered":"CIA’s \u2018surveillance state\u2019 is operating against us all\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

CIA’s \u2018surveillance state\u2019 is operating against us all\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Maybe you once thought the CIA wasn\u2019t supposed to spy on Americans here in the United States.<\/p>\n

That concept is so yesteryear.<\/p>\n

Over time, the CIA upper echelon has secretly developed all kinds of policy statements and legal rationales to justify routine, widespread surveillance on U.S. soil of citizens who aren\u2019t suspected of terrorism or being a spy.<\/p>\n

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The latest outrage is found in newly declassified documents from 2014. They reveal the CIA not only intercepted emails of U.S. citizens but they were emails of the most sensitive kind \u2014 written to Congress and involving whistleblowers reporting alleged wrongdoing within the Intelligence Community.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The disclosures, kept secret until now, are two letters of \u201ccongressional notification\u201d from the Intelligence Community inspector general at the time, Charles McCullough. He stated that during \u201croutine counterintelligence monitoring of government computer systems,\u201d the CIA collected emails between congressional staff and the CIA\u2019s head of whistleblowing and source protection.<\/p>\n

McCullough added that he was concerned about the CIA\u2019s \u201cpotential compromise to whistleblower confidentiality and the consequent \u2018chilling effect\u2019 that the present [counterintelligence] monitoring system might have on Intelligence Community whistleblowing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of these emails concerned pending and developing whistleblower complaints,\u201d McCullough stated in the letters to lead Democrats and Republicans at the time on the House and Senate Intelligence Committees \u2014 Sens. Dianne Feinstein<\/a><\/span> (D-Calif.) and Saxby Chambliss<\/a><\/span> (R-Ga.), and Reps. Mike Rogers<\/a><\/span> (R-Mich.) and Dutch Ruppersberger<\/a><\/span> (D-Md.).<\/p>\n

The March 2014 intercepts, conducted under the leadership of CIA Director John Brennan<\/a><\/span> and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper<\/a><\/span>, happened amid what\u2019s widely referred to as the Obama administration\u2019s war on whistleblowers<\/a> and mass surveillance<\/a> scandals.<\/p>\n

Is that legal?<\/p>\n

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CIA’s \u2018surveillance state\u2019 is operating against us all\u00a0 \u00a9 Getty Images Maybe you once thought the CIA wasn\u2019t supposed to spy on Americans here in the United States. That concept is so yesteryear. Over time, the CIA upper echelon has secretly developed all kinds of policy statements and legal rationales to justify routine, widespread surveillance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22762,135,725,4622,15519,827,15112],"class_list":["post-40223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-charles-mccullough","tag-cia","tag-sharyl-attkisson","tag-surveillance-state","tag-the-hill","tag-united-states","tag-us-intelligence-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40224,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40223\/revisions\/40224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}