{"id":14762,"date":"2016-12-02T18:38:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T18:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=14762"},"modified":"2024-09-27T13:56:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T17:56:27","slug":"trumps-cia-pick-would-reinstate-us-collection-of-phone-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/12\/02\/trumps-cia-pick-would-reinstate-us-collection-of-phone-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s CIA pick would reinstate US collection of phone data"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The federal government\u2019s long-hidden authority to sweep up records of all phone calls made in the U.S. was repealed last year in a bipartisan vote of Congress. But President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s choice to head the CIA has called for reinstatement of the data haul and said its elimination was part of \u201cEdward Snowden\u2019s vision of America.\u201d<\/p>\n

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 Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor, revealed in 2013 that the NSA had been collecting bulk data on U.S. phone calls without a warrant for more than a decade. President George W. Bush\u2019s administration had ordered the collection unilaterally after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, then obtained approval from a secret intelligence court in 2006.\n<\/div>\n

The records contain so-called metadata, showing the numbers called and duration of the calls, but not the content of the messages. The law that President Obama signed in June 2015, called the USA Freedom Act, leaves the records with the phone companies but allows the National Security Agency to request data on individual customers without a court order.<\/p>\n

Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., whom Trump named Friday as his choice for CIA director, was among a minority of House Republicans who opposed the change. In a December 2015 column in the National Review magazine, he attacked Republican presidential candidates who supported the new law.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose who today suggest that the USA Freedom Act, which gutted the National Security Agency\u2019s metadata program, enables the intelligence community to better prevent and investigate threats against the U.S. are lying,\u201d Pompeo wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cLess intelligence capacity equals less safety. To share Edward Snowden\u2019s vision of America as the problem is to come down on the side of President Obama\u2019s diminishing willingness to collect intelligence on jihadis.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a January 2016 Wall Street Journal column co-authored by conservative commentator David Rivkin, Pompeo called for Congress to reauthorize collection of U.S. phone records, which would be combined with \u201cpublicly available financial and lifestyle information\u201d into a government database.<\/p>\n

\u201cLegal and bureaucratic impediments to surveillance should be removed,\u201d Pompeo and Rivkin wrote.<\/p>\n

Neither Trump\u2019s presidential transition office nor Pompeo\u2019s congressional office responded Monday to inquiries about the issue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source: Trump\u2019s CIA pick would reinstate US collection of phone data – San Francisco Chronicle<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The federal government\u2019s long-hidden authority to sweep up records of all phone calls made in the U.S. was repealed last year in a bipartisan vote of Congress. But President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s choice to head the CIA has called for reinstatement of the data haul and said its elimination was part of \u201cEdward Snowden\u2019s vision of America.\u201d  Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor, revealed in 2013 that the NSA had been collecting bulk data on U.S. phone calls without a warrant for more than a decade. President George W. Bush\u2019s administration had ordered the collection unilaterally after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, then obtained approval from a secret intelligence court in 2006. The records contain so-called metadata, showing the numbers called and duration of the calls, but not the content of the messages. The law that President Obama signed in June 2015, called the USA Freedom Act, leaves the records with the phone companies but allows the National Security Agency to request data on individual customers without a court order. Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., whom Trump named Friday as his choice for CIA director, was among a minority of House Republicans who opposed the change. In a December […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[434,2267,1678,1836],"class_list":["post-14762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-cia","tag-pompeo","tag-surveillance","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34400,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14762\/revisions\/34400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}