The Central Intelligence Agency is collecting information on Americans without supervision from Congress or any other branch of government, two Democratic senators alleged in a newly declassified letter last year. The April 13, 2021 letter from Sens. Ron Wyden of Oregon and Martin Heinrich of New Mexico to Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines and CIA Director William Burns was made public with partial redactions Thursday.In the legible portions of the letter, Wyden and Heinrich state that despite “Congress’s intent, expressed over many years and through multiple pieces of legislation, to limit and, in some cases, prohibit the warrantless collection of Americans’ records, as well as the public’s intense interest in and support for these legislative efforts … the CIA has secretly conducted its own bulk program”.
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