CIA has a secret surveillance program
called 'Deep Dive' that has been collecting
Americans' personal information for YEARS
without congressional approval, Democratic
Senators say
Daily Mail (UK) & Associated Press,
by
Geoff Earle
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
2/11/2022 12:02:05 PM
The CIA has been collecting the personal information of Americans for years in a secret surveillance program that has no congressional approval, according to a newly declassified letter released by a pair of Democratic senators said late Thursday night. Sens. Ron Wyden of Oregon and Martin Heinrich of New Mexico are branding the collection 'warrantless backdoor searches.' They sent a letter to top intelligence officials calling more details about the program to be declassified and demanded immediate action. The program is '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 from
Reply 1 - Posted by:
downnout 2/11/2022 12:07:07 PM (No. 1069026)
So now the Democrats are concerned about privacy? What a joke.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
GustoGrabber 2/11/2022 12:15:10 PM (No. 1069034)
Saaaay, isn't one of the two bland bombshells that take Rush's legal on the radio everyday a CIA analyst? Bet he could tell us a thing of two if we he wasn't busy trying to convince us that the swamp isn't such a bad place.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
BarryNo 2/11/2022 12:40:34 PM (No. 1069051)
Time to cut the CIA's collective throst.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
jasonB 2/11/2022 12:47:42 PM (No. 1069056)
I completely regret EVER supporting W Bush. 19 guys with boxcutters beat us. We destroyed ourselves. I pray we have the resolve to right this ship.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
HisHandmaiden 2/11/2022 12:49:49 PM (No. 1069057)
https://nsa.gov1.info/utah-data-center/
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Luandir 2/11/2022 12:54:29 PM (No. 1069060)
A high priority for the next Republican Congress is cutting the CIA's budget to where they can't afford programs like this.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
reefdiver 2/11/2022 12:54:34 PM (No. 1069061)
One step closer to a totalitarian state.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
TXknitter 2/11/2022 12:58:46 PM (No. 1069063)
The so-called “oversight committees” in House and Senate are a joke. These Senators in D.C. since they started shaving already knew these horrific details about the CIA. The real reason no high level Deep State-serving federal employee is EVER accountable is because these guys are more powerful than the elected folks on the Hill. Yes, they endure hearings while Senators and Congresspeople get their best shots in at them but both sides of microphone knows its all theater.
It is past time, if we really are going to stick with our feckless and corruption-ridden GOP, that we start demanding some action or we yell them they will never get our vite.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 2/11/2022 1:15:15 PM (No. 1069076)
The CIA has turned evil. They now work for THEMSELVES, and seek to control politicians, not serve the public good.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 2/11/2022 1:22:51 PM (No. 1069082)
This means they have the dirt on *everyone* in congress or anywhere else who might try to reign them in. That includes Wyden and Heinrich. Nothing will come of this. It will fade quietly into the background.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
john56 2/11/2022 1:36:55 PM (No. 1069092)
Gee, why are they worried? Even when there is a Republican President (Trump), the deep state and intellgence state still does their work for their Democrat masters.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
leonardo 2/11/2022 1:37:57 PM (No. 1069094)
A black entity with Zero oversight and no pubic transparency = "1984."
The Democrats are not so much "concerned" - they are delighted ... just another tool to be used for totalitarian purposes to keep troublemakers and "domestic terrorists" in line. Any demand for immediate action will get the reply: "If 75 years is good enough for Pfizer transparency, it's good enough for us."
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
red1066 2/11/2022 1:39:54 PM (No. 1069097)
Color me shocked. NOT! I just assume the government collect data on everyone. It's why they built that huge collect center located I believe in Utah. It so big, I'm not even sure it's even finished yet and the story about it came out about five years ago.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Illinois Mom 2/11/2022 1:39:54 PM (No. 1069098)
There is a tape of Maxine Water's bragging about Obama's fabulous Data Base. It was the biggest most comprehensive collection of data ever seen.
FTA in 2012: "Her comment came during an interview on Roland Martin’s “Washington Watch” in which Martin brought up the fact that the Obama-era would end in 2016, so minorities “better get what you can while he’s there.” Here was Waters’ reply:
Well, you know, I don’t know. And I think some people are missing something here. The president has put in place an organization that contains the kind of database that no one has ever seen before in life. That’s going to be very, very powerful. That database will have information about everything on every individual in ways that it’s never been done before."
I remember Rush playing it many times and then remarking later that it suddenly "disappeared." God, I miss Rush. Clay and Buck aren't aware of things like this and no one else seems to be catching them either.
Here's the Daily Wire Flashback article:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/flashback-maxine-waters-brags-about-obamas-james-barrett
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 2/11/2022 1:56:59 PM (No. 1069115)
Re #5. Maybe Trump can call in some air strikes.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 2/11/2022 2:01:00 PM (No. 1069117)
I'm coming to see the utility of summary executions.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
chance_232 2/11/2022 2:02:35 PM (No. 1069120)
Sooooooo........why are we hearing this first from the "UK DAILY MAIL"???
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
DVC 2/11/2022 2:07:43 PM (No. 1069123)
Going out to the link from #5, and browsing around.....I ran into this blood chilling page. This is just a short clip, but you'll get their drift.
"Your Data: If You Have Nothing to Hide, You Have Nothing to Fear
Our value is founded on a unique and deep understanding of risks, vulnerabilities, mitigations, and threats. Domestic Surveillance plays a vital role in our national security by using advanced data mining systems to "connect the dots" to identify suspicious patterns.
Why We Collect Your Data
In the past, domestic law enforcement agencies collected data AFTER a suspect had been identified. This often resulted in lost intelligence and missed opportunities. But what if data could be collected in advance, BEFORE the target was known? What if the mere act of collecting data could result in the identification of new targets?
What if we could build a national data warehouse containing information about every person in the United States? Thanks to secret interpretations of the PATRIOT ACT, top-secret Fourth Amendment exceptions allowed by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, and broad cooperation at the local, state, and federal level, we can! "
This pretty much what I expected. They are spying on EVERYONE, all the time, every day. And they are proud of it.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 2/11/2022 2:40:07 PM (No. 1069144)
Face it, we have all been hacked.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 2/11/2022 2:48:59 PM (No. 1069150)
So in this case they must have all of those lost Hillary emails in some secret server farm.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
DVC 2/11/2022 3:44:40 PM (No. 1069197)
Re #20. I have said here, repeatedly that a properly executed legal order to NSA to recover those emails would absolutely have them ALL.
It turns out to be unnecessary, since brain dead Abiden, Hellary's "aide/main squeeze" had them routed to her pervy hubby's laptop....and they were stored there, too. The FBI has had them all for a long time....but is covering up that fact.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 2/11/2022 6:38:26 PM (No. 1069328)
If true, what will be done about it - I mean besides nothing?
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 2/11/2022 6:55:45 PM (No. 1069339)
It's time for the States to call a Constitutional Convention and put an end to this un-Constitutional Federal Leviathan.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Faithfully 2/11/2022 8:25:21 PM (No. 1069388)
Our only non-violent response is to shun every and all government employees be they neighbours or family.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 2/11/2022 10:56:48 PM (No. 1069444)
CIA - #1 Enemy of the people as part of the 17-agency Obama KGB-Gestapo. Top tiers to Gitmo, cancel the peons.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 2/12/2022 8:16:33 AM (No. 1069662)
I was willing to read, learn and see what was up. Then I saw THE fear point. It was plainly posted on the ''welcome'' sign. Ask any completely innocent person the military-industrial complex has prosecuted, intimidated and actually persecuted to the nth degree and ask them if that sign is correct: If You Have Nothing to Hide You Have Nothing to Fear. That is probably the last thing a person hears just before being carted off to the Big House.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/12/2022 9:35:54 AM (No. 1069746)
How about for decades? I believe the NSA database is larger unless they have combined it by now for a complete anti-American encyclopedia.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Trapper 2/12/2022 9:43:40 AM (No. 1069757)
OP - The Patriot Act, passed in 2001, showed remarkable prescience in its naming, since it is being used against .... American citizen patriots. Who knew? The shadow knew.
Totalitarians always, always, ALWAYS telegraph what they are going to do to us. They even set up web sites to proclaim their intentions. Here's a helpful hint: beware ALL so-called global initiatives that do not have God or Christ in their mission statements or statements of values. Works without faith.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/12/2022 9:48:48 AM (No. 1069764)
We put our own data out everywhere when we have credit accounts, Fakebook, Google and all the others. When greedy little communists like Zuckerberg at Fakebook, Bezos at Amazon and the foreigners who run Twitter, Tik-Tok, Siri, Alexa, cell phone networks, hospitals, etc all willingly give their data bases to the government, thanks to payments and favors by another foreigner, Obama, they don't need hackers, they gladly accept and record it. The main data collection done directly by the government is through drones and satellites and other means of which we know little to nothing at this point. Every smart device in your pocket and in your home and car is a potential collection point. It's just like China and North Korea only we have more food.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Zigrid 2/12/2022 10:27:21 AM (No. 1069826)
WE know that's been going on for years...so I guess it's time for two sets of books...empty your bank accounts of U S cash...and hide it around your house...I like my freezer in amongst the chicken soup...I shop with U S dollars only and support my local stores...in case you're thinking of looking in my freezer...that's not my spot...now...
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
MDConservative 2/12/2022 12:14:11 PM (No. 1069948)
"Real conservatives" traded truckloads of liberty for "security". Back then posters here were proclaiming "I got nothing to hide." Those who raided objections were accused of not supporting national security. Dubya and the Constitution would protect us from abuse and overstep. More than 20 years later those fears of the Patriot Act are beyond coming true.
The second part is that 99% of the information collected is being bought from various consolidators, from your grocery store to Google! and Facebook. Nothing new. Nothing illegal. "Open source" - anyone can buy it. You can, too.
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The Stasi would tremble with delight at modern technology, versus the paper files they used to keep. In a nice comic touch, George Dubya Bush, son of former CIA director Poppy Bush, laid the groundwork for this via the so-called Patriot Act.