US spy agency urged to ditch plan for extra domestic snooping
A couple of US lawmakers have called on the National Security Agency (NSA) to abandon its planned expansion of domestic spying.
Representatives Blake Farenthold and Ted Lieu, members of the House Oversight Committee, have asked the NSA chief to halt a plan for the expansion of the list of agencies that the NSA shares information with.
In a letter to NSA Director Michael Rogers, the lawmakers said the plan would violate privacy protections in the Fourth Amendment, since domestic law enforcement would not need a warrant to use the data acquired from the agency, according to RT.
“We are alarmed by press reports that state National Security Agency (NSA) data may soon routinely be used for domestic policing,” the letter said. "If media accounts are true, this radical policy shift by the NSA would be unconstitutional, and dangerous.”
A New York Times report in February said the US administration was working with the spy agency to create new rules for sharing intercepted private communications with domestic law enforcement agencies, such as the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).
“Our country has always drawn a line between our military and intelligence services, and domestic policing and spying,” the congressmen wrote. “We do not - and should not - use US Army Apache helicopters to quell domestic riots; Navy Seal teams to take down counterfeiting rings; or the NSA to conduct surveillance on domestic street gangs.”
The NSA claims it removes certain personal information before giving it to other agencies.
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