Ron Wyden of Oregon and Martin Heinrich of New Mexico, both Democrats, are pressing for more information on the practice. The CIA's focus is supposed to be abroad.
— The CIA has a secret, undisclosed data repository that includes information collected about Americans, two Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee say. While neither the agency nor lawmakers would disclose specifics about the data, the senators alleged the CIA had long hidden details about the program from the public and Congress.
Intelligence agencies are required to take steps to protect U.S. information, including redacting the names of any Americans from reports unless they are deemed relevant to an investigation. The process of removing redactions is known as"unmasking." "However, analysts are not required to memorialize the justification for their queries," the board said.
In 2013, Wyden asked then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper if the NSA collected"any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans." Clapper initially responded,"No." He later said,"Not wittingly." According to the letter from Wyden and Heinrich, the CIA's bulk collection program operates outside of laws passed and reformed by Congress, but 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.
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