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SENATORS: CIA HAS SECRET PROGRAM THAT COLLECTS AMERICAN DATA


FILE - This April 13, 2016 photo shows the seal of the Central Intelligence
Agency at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va.(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
By Associated Press
Published: Fri Feb 11 2022|Updated: 57 minutes ago
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA has a secret, undisclosed data repository that
includes information collected about Americans, two Democrats on the Senate
Intelligence Committee said Thursday. While neither the agency nor lawmakers
would disclose specifics about the data, the senators alleged the CIA had long
hidden details about the program from the public and Congress.

Sens. Ron Wyden of Oregon and Martin Heinrich of New Mexico sent a letter to top
intelligence officials calling for more details about the program to be
declassified. Large parts of the letter, which was sent in April 2021 and
declassified Thursday, and documents released by the CIA were blacked out. Wyden
and Heinrich said the program operated “outside the statutory framework that
Congress and the public believe govern this collection.”

There have long been concerns about what information the intelligence community
collects domestically, driven in part by previous violations of Americans’ civil
liberties. The CIA and National Security Agency have a foreign mission and are
generally barred from investigating Americans or U.S. businesses. But the spy
agencies’ sprawling collection of foreign communications often snares Americans’
messages and data incidentally.

Intelligence agencies are required to take steps to protect U.S. information,
including redacting the names of any Americans from reports unless they are
deemed relevant to an investigation. The process of removing redactions is known
as “unmasking.”



FILE - Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., leaves the Senate subway at the Capitol in
Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022.(AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)

“CIA recognizes and takes very seriously our obligation to respect the privacy
and civil liberties of U.S. persons in the conduct of our vital national
security mission,” Kristi Scott, the agency’s privacy and civil liberties
officer, said in a statement. “CIA is committed to transparency consistent with
our obligation to protect intelligence sources and methods.”

The CIA released a series of redacted recommendations about the program issued
by an oversight panel known as the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.
According to the document, a pop-up box warns CIA analysts using the program
that seeking any information about U.S. citizens or others covered by privacy
laws requires a foreign intelligence purpose.

“However, analysts are not required to memorialize the justification for their
queries,” the board said.



Both senators have long pushed for more transparency from the intelligence
agencies. Nearly a decade ago, a question Wyden posed to the nation’s spy chief
presaged critical revelations about the NSA’s mass-surveillance programs.

In 2013, Wyden asked then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper if the
NSA collected “any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of
Americans.” Clapper initially responded, “No.” He later said, “Not wittingly.”

Former systems administrator Edward Snowden later that year revealed the NSA’s
access to bulk data through U.S. internet companies and hundreds of millions of
call records from telecommunications providers. Those revelations sparked
worldwide controversy and new legislation in Congress.

Clapper would later apologize in a letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee,
calling his response to Wyden “clearly erroneous.”



According to Wyden and Heinrich’s letter, the CIA’s bulk collection program
operates outside of laws passed and reformed by Congress, but under the
authority of Executive Order 12333, the document that broadly governs
intelligence community activity and was first signed by President Ronald Reagan
in 1981.

“It is critical that Congress not legislate without awareness of a ... CIA
program, and that the American public not be misled into believe that the
reforms in any reauthorization legislation fully cover the IC’s collection of
their records,” the senators wrote in their letter. There was a redaction in the
letter before “CIA program.”

Additional documents released by the CIA Thursday also revealed limited details
about a program to collect financial data against the Islamic State. That
program also has incidentally snared some records held by Americans.

Intelligence agencies are subject to guidelines on the handling and destruction
of Americans’ data. Those guidelines and laws governing intelligence activity
have evolved over time in response to previous revelations about domestic
spying.



The FBI spied on the U.S. civil rights movement and secretly recorded the
conversations of Dr. Martin Luther King. The CIA, in what was called Operation
Chaos, investigated whether the movement opposing the Vietnam War had links to
foreign countries.

“These reports raise serious questions about the kinds of information the CIA is
vacuuming up in bulk and how the agency exploits that information to spy on
Americans,” Patrick Toomey, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union,
said in a statement. “The CIA conducts these sweeping surveillance activities
without any court approval, and with few, if any, safeguards imposed by
Congress.”

Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

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