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“It was also not clear whether another U.S. intelligence agency was performing the actual surveillance that supported the functioning of the CIA program, which isn’t unusual.” https://t.co/eDdQe7MCXe
— ???? ????????? (@alexrblackwell) February 11, 2022
completely unsurprising but what is surprising is that they willingly disclosed this to the public. we have known for a long time that the FBI and the NSA have massive domestic+ international law enforcement operations. https://t.co/KZMICYFTdC
— poss ?⬛ (@possumkratom69) February 11, 2022
Alternate headline: CIA Still CIA’ing https://t.co/KQoJLATDFF
— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) February 11, 2022
"Nothing will fundamentally change," he said. https://t.co/KtL0Us0vBi
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) February 11, 2022
Rogue agencies like the NSA, FBI, and CIA are a more serious threat to liberty in America than the enemies they claim to protect us from. https://t.co/nKEWZ9gROQ
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) February 11, 2022
CNN won’t cover this. It would implicate their top anchors. https://t.co/2Zs7ekoi69
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) February 11, 2022
I’m starting to think respect for the rule of law on the part of the US government may have diminished somewhat over time https://t.co/1Is3pGf6D9
— Lowering the Bar (@loweringthebar) February 11, 2022
You are about to witness an enormous political debate in which the spy agencies and their apologists on TV tell you this is normal and OK and the CIA doesn't know how many Americans are in the database or even how they got there anyway.
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) February 11, 2022
But it is not ok.https://t.co/KtL0Us0vBi
can't be any worse than what we give facebook and google for free https://t.co/6evY3RFaOg
— Josh Russell (@josh_emerson) February 11, 2022
The Wyden/Heinrich letter says the bulk collection by CIA involves information the general public would be prone to believe was governed by legislative reforms to FISA. Presumably that means USA FREEDOM, which was a response to NSA’s bulk telephony metadata collection.
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) February 11, 2022
Huge:
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) February 11, 2022
CIA mass ("bulk") surveillance has been carried out “entirely outside the statutory framework, and without any judicial, congressional or even executive branch oversight. The nature and full extent was withheld even from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence." https://t.co/qF4OowjDku
The CIA's surveillance implicates the same fundamental constitutional rights as the NSA's mass surveillance programs, and we join Sens. Wyden and Heinrich in calling on the CIA to release more details about the program. https://t.co/smqznD4UoC
— EFF (@EFF) February 11, 2022
The letter from Wyden and Heinrich did not say what kind of bulk records the CIA is collecting, because the agency deems that classified. https://t.co/R7WV3s2rVr
— Charlie Savage (@charlie_savage) February 11, 2022
This is the systematic construction of a surveillance state that will dominate the rest of our lives.
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) February 11, 2022
People brushing this off with "duh" or "I'm not surprised" should take this seriously: elections are months away. Vote out any politician who defends this in the slightest way. https://t.co/zPFCi7GX8s
Another example of the reason why EU courts keep ruling storing EU citizens’ data in the US violates the GDPR. https://t.co/wTUX9t8zzW
— Jeremiah Lee (@JeremiahLee) February 11, 2022
Deep State Update: https://t.co/3ahcw2lTfE
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) February 11, 2022
Can't wait till they tell me Santa isn't real either. This is incredibly shocking and I could never have imagined the CIA could do something so awful and overreaching :O https://t.co/Kx24y2wESE
— Mutahar (@OrdinaryGamers) February 11, 2022
The CIA is not your friend.
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) February 11, 2022
The CIA is not a friend of the United States.
The CIA is a friend of power, and power alone. https://t.co/KtL0UrIUcI
So, CIA is basically saying "trust us—this is legal, but we aren't going to tell you what we're doing."
— Avi Asher-Schapiro (@AASchapiro) February 11, 2022
And two privacy hawk US Senators are saying, "If CIA were made to reveal what they're doing...we'd all agree, it's not kosher."
Who you gonna believe? https://t.co/CfVV1fUHfe
“The CIA has a secret, undisclosed data repository that includes information collected about Americans.” https://t.co/gBWonxP4KA
— Patrick Howell O'Neill (@HowellONeill) February 11, 2022
Is it really so impossible to believe? Look at how the ATF has been weaponizing their rouge “policies” against gun owners that don’t have to pass Constitutional muster much less go through the legislative process to become real law. It’s an “express lane” to infringement. https://t.co/aM5cGvk65e
— Iraqveteran8888 (@Iraqveteran8888) February 11, 2022
Declassified letter indicates @CIA has a secret, undisclosed data repository with information collected about Americans which two US senators contend is “outside the statutory framework that Congress and the public believe govern this collection.” https://t.co/DGb6BzoHq6
— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) February 11, 2022
damn, it’s always the ones you least expect https://t.co/OfO4WNSOtf
— Siraj Hashmi (@SirajAHashmi) February 11, 2022
There was a man named @Snowden who tried to warn us this was going on but he was called a “traitor” and had to flee his country. https://t.co/CPztX4uD6u
— Emma-Jo Morris (@EmmaJoNYC) February 11, 2022
Apparently there is a pop-up-window exception to the Fourth Amendment now https://t.co/FEXBVMvtpl pic.twitter.com/wXYCyL4FVf
— Jameel Jaffer (@JameelJaffer) February 11, 2022
Worth noting this news is coming exactly as a bunch of people in Congress are making a push for "anti-Big Tech legislation" that would seriously incentivize if not outright force an end end-to-end encryption, and raises major 4th amendment issues. https://t.co/cTuvXZfyMR
— Liz Mair (@LizMair) February 11, 2022
This story is based on an April 2021 letter from Sens. Ron Wyden (D., Ore.) and Martin Heinrich (D., N.M.) that was “partially declassified and disclosed Thursday,” per WSJ. https://t.co/pYEY9DcsjF pic.twitter.com/SVbkI9Igjr
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) February 11, 2022
This surveillance is done without any court approval, and with few, if any, safeguards imposed by Congress to protect our civil liberties.https://t.co/zeLbFI7En1
— ACLU (@ACLU) February 11, 2022
I wrote a little about the ECPA loophole waaaaaay back in 2013. https://t.co/n21cnSyaBB
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) February 11, 2022
Begs the question: Just how deep AND dark is The Deep State? https://t.co/vfxpn7PhoQ
— Financial Bounty Hunters USA (@LWDoyleUSA) February 11, 2022
BREAKING: Newly declassified documents reveal that the CIA has been secretly conducting massive surveillance programs that capture Americans’ private information.
— ACLU (@ACLU) February 11, 2022
Now do the crackdown on speech they don’t like https://t.co/NKiL7MAtQP
— Will Ricciardella (@WillRicci) February 11, 2022
The @CIA has for years been collecting in bulk, without a warrant, some kind of data that can affect Americans’ privacy, according to a letter by @RonWyden & @MartinHeinrich.
— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) February 11, 2022
But the CIA kept censored the nature of the data when it declassified the letter https://t.co/Frq73KDCfY
So, this is all maddeningly vague, but a couple of observations based on the very limited information available…. https://t.co/E5yYnqFs20
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) February 11, 2022
As long as the new custodian of the data is not a service provider to the public, they’re not covered by ECPA rules governing disclosure directly from providers to the government.
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) February 11, 2022
Every decade the U.S. uncovers egregious and totally illegal practices by the CIA. Yet every decade they're surprised bad stuff keeps happening.
— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) February 11, 2022
Despite commonly held beliefs, it's not because an info is out that things magically improve. https://t.co/E5BOe2ZhN7
CIA”…officials are not required to record what the purpose was.” There’s an epitaph for an agency. https://t.co/Q4a5CDB4pH
— Alex Gibney (@alexgibneyfilm) February 11, 2022
This is why one of the most important and overlooked stories of the last decade is how these agencies have implanted a huge number of their top operatives on the payrolls and inside the newsrooms of America's largest media corporations. Every NBC or CNN panel has at least one: https://t.co/nyFpnPuzoZ
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 11, 2022
CIA does homeland stuff now? Guess they need to update their website. pic.twitter.com/AIgegbBfBa
— Josh Sternberg (@joshsternberg) February 11, 2022
The CIA is secretly collecting vast troves of data on Americans not only without a warrant, but without oversight from Congress or the courts of any kind. https://t.co/Bdy5bkN681
— Trevor Timm (@trevortimm) February 11, 2022
The first person to roll their eyes and tell me how everyone already knows the CIA is spying on all Americans all the time is welcome to choke on a printed out copy of the "...and yet you participate in society" meme which I will shove down their throat. https://t.co/fMQ9UCoMLg
— Eva (@evacide) February 11, 2022
The CIA is a criminal organization. Their interference in US politics is particularly pernicious.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 11, 2022
Maybe news outlets should stop hiring all of the people who run this agency to help "analyze" and report the news? Maybe journalists should be skeptical of their planted stories? https://t.co/9Xmqmth3FT
Did they buy Facebook or vice versa? https://t.co/69dzKeNwRg
— Steve Marmel ? ? ? (@Marmel) February 11, 2022
Congress’s oversight over programs such as these is virtually nonexistent, yet Congress votes to fund them. How is that possible you ask? Negligence.https://t.co/GeGI3SkfLr
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) February 11, 2022
This is a bombshell story.
— Evan Greer (@evan_greer) February 11, 2022
And honestly you couldn't ask for a more crystal clear example why legislation like the EARN IT Act that undermines encryption is a terrible idea.
It's not just a threat to marginalized people's "privacy" it's a threat to safety and security. https://t.co/02xM5aw7OS
The redactions kind of make this whole report something else.
— Steven Sinofsky (@stevesi) February 11, 2022
PRIVACY & CIVIL LIBERTIES OVERSIGHT BOARD
REPORT ON CIA FINANCIAL DATA ACTIVITIES IN SUPPORT OF ISIL- RELATED COUNTERTERORRISM EFFORTS https://t.co/IKkAcg7YTc
you ever think about how CIA was caught spying on the Senate's investigation of CIA torture & then the CIA's Inspector General was told by Deputy NatSec Advisor Avril Haines not to discipline the personnel who did it, & then the Senate confirmed Haines to be Biden's DNI https://t.co/0OPO5xQaNn
— Kelsey D. Atherton (@AthertonKD) February 11, 2022
Apparently there is a pop-up-window exception to the Fourth Amendment now https://t.co/FEXBVMvtpl pic.twitter.com/wXYCyL4FVf
— Jameel Jaffer (@JameelJaffer) February 11, 2022
So, CIA is basically saying "trust us—this is legal, but we aren't going to tell you what we're doing."
— Avi Asher-Schapiro (@AASchapiro) February 11, 2022
And two privacy hawk US Senators are saying, "If CIA were made to reveal what they're doing...we'd all agree, it's not kosher."
Who you gonna believe? https://t.co/CfVV1fUHfe
Congress’s oversight over programs such as these is virtually nonexistent, yet Congress votes to fund them. How is that possible you ask? Negligence.https://t.co/GeGI3SkfLr
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) February 11, 2022
"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." -@charlie_savage https://t.co/WTBaZ99u1k
— Daniel Schuman (@danielschuman) February 11, 2022
US. “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.” https://t.co/agCbiH4vTW
— Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius (@fborgesius) February 11, 2022
Truly a lawless institution that should be dismantled https://t.co/l6bu2k0cOb
— John Carl Baker (@johncarlbaker) February 11, 2022
There are also some good news summaries of what we know so far. I especially recommend these pieces from @charlie_savage and @dnvolz https://t.co/8YyLCHebixhttps://t.co/wqrBAV9vnr
— ?Jake Laperruque?? (@JakeLaperruque) February 11, 2022
3/17
Cute. "When C.I.A. officials use an American’s identifier as a query term...a box pops up to remind them that the search must have a foreign intelligence purpose."https://t.co/eWAUfX6Gzw
— Tom Simonite (@tsimonite) February 11, 2022
And while the CIA’s official statement says that the congressional intelligence committees have been kept fully informed about the program, Wyden and Heinrich - both members of the Senate intelligence committee - say otherwise. (My money’s on them.) 15/18 https://t.co/pu0KHV4ITn
— Elizabeth Goitein (@LizaGoitein) February 11, 2022
Declassified letter indicates @CIA has a secret, undisclosed data repository with information collected about Americans which two US senators contend is “outside the statutory framework that Congress and the public believe govern this collection.” https://t.co/DGb6BzoHq6
— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) February 11, 2022
Letter requesting CIA disclosure of collecting data on Americans. https://t.co/EIKidQW9IF
— Kevin Shipp (@Kevin_Shipp) February 11, 2022
The CIA's surveillance implicates the same fundamental constitutional rights as the NSA's mass surveillance programs, and we join Sens. Wyden and Heinrich in calling on the CIA to release more details about the program. https://t.co/smqznD4UoC
— EFF (@EFF) February 11, 2022
Here's the letter itself- https://t.co/ruC4ioL2wR
— Chris Vickery (@VickerySec) February 11, 2022
"Until the PCLOB 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."
— m "HACKED BY GOODWARE" w (@diakopter) February 11, 2022
PDF: https://t.co/2CPIEaEFuD pic.twitter.com/PXclFib5ta
This surveillance is done without any court approval, and with few, if any, safeguards imposed by Congress to protect our civil liberties.https://t.co/zeLbFI7En1
— ACLU (@ACLU) February 11, 2022
BREAKING: Newly declassified documents confirm for the first time that the CIA is indeed spying on American citizens
— AWKWORD (@AWKWORDrap) February 11, 2022
“These reports raise serious questions about… how the agency exploits that information to spy on Americans” - @ACLUhttps://t.co/YIIR9JFLzk
There’s a lot to unpack in the bombshell announcement by @RonWyden and @MartinHeinrich last night that the CIA has been conducting a bulk collection program and searching through the resulting data for information about Americans. 1/18 https://t.co/hwQDR94TSb
— Elizabeth Goitein (@LizaGoitein) February 11, 2022
The CIA has been engaging in mass surveillance of Americans' communications, violating everyone's privacy without any oversight from courts or Congress. #Breakinghttps://t.co/Hf5omSsANu
— EFF (@EFF) February 11, 2022
Anons knew in 2019 that this was coming:
— MagaHonkey (@MagaFarley) February 11, 2022
3 years ahead…when will y’all start listening to us?
Normies: Are you still comfy with your apps? Your “convenience”?
Your convenience is the ?’s data network. Plain and simple. https://t.co/6u6CRuV9pe pic.twitter.com/jLkvaKJFAX
3) contd . . .These people don’t just shift gears like this. The locomotive coming down the track may not just be political. https://t.co/f7QXEOsJWw
— Other_Walls (@WallsOther) February 11, 2022
Senators Wyden & Heinrich reveal CIA has a bulk surveillance program: “entirely outside the statutory framework that Congress & the public believe govern this collection, & without any of the judicial, congressional or even executive branch oversight." https://t.co/CtNHcMKhZi
— Avi Asher-Schapiro (@AASchapiro) February 11, 2022
New documents reveal that the CIA has a secret surveillance program of Americans.
— Mckayla Wilkes for Congress (@MeetMckayla) February 11, 2022
Regardless of whether you have "anything to hide," this is a problem because there is:
- no transparency
- no safeguards to ensure that civil liberties aren't violated.https://t.co/YHXGnxCttM
Senators Ron Wyden and Martin Heinrich object to how the CIA engages in secret "warrantless backdoor searches of Americans' information." https://t.co/Q9qQz6Efia pic.twitter.com/jerm7ciWga
— Kevin Gosztola (@kgosztola) February 11, 2022
For people who are following the news about the CIA's bulk surveillance programs and their effect on Americans.... Here's a short thread with some background reports on the Executive Order authority (12333) that the agency is relying on: https://t.co/id7MqTI7mD
— Jennifer Granick (@granick) February 11, 2022
Outrageous but entirely predictable. No institution deserves more blame for this than the federal courts, which have effectively placed national security surveillance beyond the reach of the constitution. https://t.co/LE88YCEUe7
— Jameel Jaffer (@JameelJaffer) February 11, 2022
Newly Declassified Documents Reveal Previously Secret CIA Bulk Collection, Problems With CIA Handling of Americans’ Information https://t.co/5DQMchycdZ
— Oakland Privacy (@OaklandPrivacy) February 11, 2022