Pompeo Confirmed as CIA Director, Privacy Concerns Remain
This week the U.S. Senate confirmed Rep. Mike Pompeo to be Director of the CIA by a vote of 66-32. EPIC sent a statement to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence highlighting Pompeo's troubling statements on privacy and surveillance. In a January 2016 op-ed, Mr. Pompeo wrote that "Congress should pass a law re-establishing collection of all metadata, and combining it with publicly available financial and lifestyle information into a comprehensive, searchable database. Legal and bureaucratic impediments to surveillance should be removed." EPIC warned the Senate Committee that the CIA Director must not "turn the enormous surveillance powers of the agency against the American people." A recent Freedom of Information Act case pursued by an EPIC revealed that the CIA spied on staff members of the US Senate.
January 25, 2017| Share:
