Claiming the same authority as the NSA does for its bulk collection of domestic internet and phone data, the clandestine Central Intelligence Agency is compiling a “vast database” that includes the personal financial records of Americans, according to the Wall Street Journal.
In a news story published Friday, the Journal reporting shows the CIA program “collects information from U.S. money-transfer companies including Western Union” and that some of the data goes “beyond basic financial records, such as U.S. Social Security numbers, which can be used to tie the financial activity to a specific person.”
According to the Journal, the program
As has been shown in other cases, it is the CIA’s collusion with the FBI, which operates under different rules when it comes to domestically obtaining or handling the personal data of American citizens, that makes these kind of databases most troubling to privacy and civil liberty advocates.
As the ACLU warned from its very inception, the U.S. Patriot Act would allow the CIA to (once again) turn its spying capabilities on Americans by permitting “a vast array of information gathering on U.S. citizens from school records, financial transactions, Internet activity, telephone conversations, information gleaned from grand jury proceedings and criminal investigations.”
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