On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 17:18:37 +0100, Fritz Wuehler wrote:

> https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cia-has-been-secretly-
> collecting-data-on-americans-in-bulk-senators-say
>
> The program operates under the authority of Executive Order 12333
>
> The Central Intelligence Agency has conducted a secret, bulk
> surveillance program without congressional approval for years and two
> senators have called for new information about the program that includes
> data on Americans, according to a statement on Thursday.
>
> Sens. Ron Wyden and Martin Heinrich, both Democrats on the Senate
> Intelligence Committee, posted an April 13, 2021 letter they sent to
> Avril D. Haines, the director of national intelligence, and William J.
> Burns, the CIA director, in an effort to learn more about that program.
>
> Their letter to the top intelligence officials was partially
> declassified on Thursday. The two accused the CIA of conducting the
> program "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
> [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] collection."
>
> The program operates 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.
>
> 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.

Is this still news? Are there still people unaware of this? USA, China,
Russia, 5 eyes... All the same.