Obama Admin’s New Rules Will Create Spying Partnership Between Local Police, NSA
By Derrick Broze
ActivistPost.com
MARCH 30, 2016
Under new rules being developed by the Obama administration, the National Security Agency will be able to take data collected for “counter-terrorism” purposes and share it with local law enforcement, a move that has civil liberties advocates expressing concern.
A new report from the New York Times outlines how the Obama administration’s new policy will make it easier for the NSA to share information between law enforcement agencies with very little oversight. According to the New York Times report:
The Obama administration is on the verge of permitting the National Security Agency to share more of the private communications it intercepts with other American intelligence agencies without first applying any privacy protections to them, according to officials familiar with the deliberations.
Robert S. Litt, the general counsel in the office of the Director of National Intelligence, said that the administration had developed and was fine-tuning what is now a 21-page draft set of procedures to permit the sharing.
The new rule changes would allow federal agencies such as the FBI to access streams of information gathered by the spy agency, “including emails, phone calls and location data.” These federal agencies would then have the ability to pass the data to state and local law enforcement. As the Times points out, “all of this can happen without any congressional or judicial oversight under a Reagan era executive order known as EO 12333.”
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