New revelations, said the ACLU, 'raise serious questions about what information of ours the CIA is vacuuming up in bulk.'
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."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.
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."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.
Sean Vitka, senior policy counsel with the progressive advocacy group Demand Progress, said the new information was troubling if not surprising. "While we appreciate the release of the ‘Recommendations from PCLOB Staff’ which highlights problems associated with the handling of Americans' information," the lawmakers said,"our letter also stressed that the public deserves to know more about the collection of this information."
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