ICYMI| Big Brother is watching you. He gets your emails, your texts, your phone records, and who knows what else they have. If you don’t think the FBI, the CIA, and the DOJ aren’t the most corrupt government agencies of all time I want some of what you are smoking. In June of 2013, it was revealed that the NSA was collecting information from hundreds of millions of US citizens.
Sen. Ron Wyden (Ore.) and Martin Heinrich (N.M.) said:
(The CIA) “has secretly conducted its own bulk program” and “has done so entirely outside the statutory framework that Congress and the public believe govern this collection, and without any of the judicial, congressional or even executive branch oversight that comes with FISA collection.”
“This basic fact has been kept from the public and from Congress. Until the [Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board] report was delivered last month, the nature and full extent of the CIA’s collection was withheld even from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.”
“[W]hat these documents demonstrate is that many of the same concerns that Americans have about their privacy and civil liberties also apply to how the CIA collects and handles information under executive order and outside the FISA law. In particular, these documents reveal serious problems associated with warrantless backdoor searches of Americans, the same issue that has generated bipartisan concern in the FISA context.”
CIA privacy and civil liberties officer Kristi Scott said:
“CIA recognizes and takes very seriously our obligation to respect the privacy and civil liberties of US persons in the conduct of our vital national security mission, and conducts our activities, including collection activities, in compliance with U.S. law, Executive Order 12333, and our Attorney General guidelines. CIA is committed to transparency consistent with our obligation to protect intelligence sources and methods.”
Do you trust the CIA? If you do, send me two of whatever you are smoking. Their recent history shows that they can’t be trusted. And besides, do you want the CIA to know that you called your cousin Billy and told him that Aunt Minnie is a nympho? It could get really embarrassing especially after a couple of hundred CIA agents drop by to check on your Aunt Minnie.
