10 times the intel community violated the trust of US citizens, lawmakers and allies

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10 times the intel community violated the trust of US citizens, lawmakers and allies
The Hill, Dec 26, 2017, Sharyl Attkisson

No matter where you stand politically, a growing body of facts raises the question: Is there systemic corruption or misfeasance at work inside America’s intelligence agencies?  By that, I don’t mean people stealing money. I mean officials who are stealing our privacy — using the tools of intelligence-gathering and law-enforcing, which are meant to protect Americans, to instead spy on them, ...

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Telecom takeover
Joe Nacchio, CEO of telecom giant Qwest, said that after he refused to spy on his customers for the National Security Agency (NSA) without a warrant in February of 2001, the government retaliated by yanking a contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars and filing an insider trading case against him. He went to prison. The government denied charges of retaliation.

Olympic spying
In 2002, the NSA reportedly engaged in “blanket surveillance” of the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, collecting and storing “virtually all electronic communications going into or out of the Salt Lake City area, including … emails and text messages” to “experiment with and fine tune a new scale of mass surveillance.” NSA officials had denied such a program existed.


Read more: http://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/366442-10-times-the-intel-community-violated-the-trust-of-americas

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Attkisson points out that this is not a partisan issue. The George W. Bush administration was involved as well.

Where is Congress on this??