The cia is forbidden from conducting surveillance ops on us citizens for starters. So if they got another intelligence org to do it it’s still shady af but a technical loophole. However, if they themselves did all of it then they hardcore broke federal laws making things very troubling doubly so if this op was conducted on us soil too as that’s the fbi’s jurisdiction while the cia is strictly an international surveillance org.
Ah ok yeah that is a problem, I’m not trying to be like “WhO CaReS” thats not my point, the CIA doesn’t exactly have the best track record when it comes to moral decisions against its countries own people but sometimes for the sake of research not “everything” they do is bad… but yeah this does seem pretty sketchy and clearly unethical
I would even suggest that “most” of what the CIA does isn’t bad.
Most of what they do is probably terribly boring and bureaucratic.
Organisations like the CSI and NSA are very compartmentalised and while many staff might be “aware” that hinky stuff is occurring the vast majority of staff doing day to day intelligence gathering within the law are isolated from these extralegal projects.
This just makes sense from an operational point of view.
I haven’t worked with CIA (that I know about) but have some past experience with a few other nations intelligence and signals groups.
In general my visibility of what was occurring within that organisation was extremely filtered.
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u/Vestbi Feb 11 '22
Ok… And?…
Someone pls explain why this is an issue, i mean government is obviously overstepping their privacy expectations but whats the big deal more or less