Washington-Sana
Two members of the US Senate Intelligence Committee revealed that the US Central Intelligence Agency possesses a secret data warehouse that contains a huge amount of information collected about American citizens, the details of which the agency deliberately concealed from public opinion in the country.
US News reported that Democratic Senators (Ron Wyden) of Oregon and (Martin Heinrich) of New Mexico last April sent a letter to senior intelligence officials and it was declassified yesterday, where they demanded that more details about the program be disclosed. Espionage asserting that this program operates outside the legal framework that Congress and the public believe governs this intelligence group.
The site indicated that there have been concerns for a long time about the information collected by the American intelligence community inside the United States, given the previous violations committed against the civil liberties of American citizens.
The website added that the missions of the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency are confined to abroad, and they are supposed to be prohibited from conducting investigations or collecting information about citizens and companies within the United States, and their work requires taking steps to protect American information, including removing the names of any Americans from reports unless considered relevant. connection to the investigation.
Senators Wyden and Heinrich have long lobbied for more transparency from intelligence agencies. In 2013, Wyden asked then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper whether the NSA had collected any kind of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans. Clapper replied. At first (no), he later said, "Not on purpose."
"These reports raise serious questions about what kind of information the CIA is collecting in large quantities and how it is using that information to spy on Americans," Patrick Tomei, an ACLU attorney, said in a statement.
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