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→Attack on civil liberties
===Attack on civil liberties===
===Attack on civil liberties===
[[File:Fisa-Mary-McCord-and-company-768x780.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Veterans of intelligence community scandals (clockwise from lower left): [[FISA_abuse_timeline#April_2021|Judge Boasberg]], [[Mary McCord (DOJ)]], [[Eric Ciaramella]], [[Alexander Vindman]], [[Michael Atkinson]], [[John Carlin]].]]
:{{See also|Obamunism}}
:{{See also|Obamunism}}
Glenn Greenwald observed:
Glenn Greenwald observed:
{{quotebox-float|"Involvement of the [[intelligence community]] in the domestic activities of U.S. citizens is one of the most dangerous breaches of civil liberties and democratic order the U.S. Government can perpetrate. It was after [[World War II]] when the [[CIA]], the [[NSA]] and other security state agencies that wield immense and unlimited powers in the dark were created in the name of fighting the [[Cold War]]. Legal and institutional prohibitions on wielding that massive machinery against the American public were central to the always-dubious claim that this security behemoth that operates completely in the dark was compatible with [[democracy]]. As the [[ACLU]] noted, “in its 1947 charter, the CIA was prohibited from spying against Americans, in part because [[President Truman]] was afraid that the agency would engage in political abuse.”<ref>https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-us-intelligence-community-flouting</ref>}}
{{quotebox-float|"Involvement of the [[intelligence community]] in the domestic activities of U.S. citizens is one of the most dangerous breaches of civil liberties and democratic order the U.S. Government can perpetrate. It was after [[World War II]] when the [[CIA]], the [[NSA]] and other security state agencies that wield immense and unlimited powers in the dark were created in the name of fighting the [[Cold War]]. Legal and institutional prohibitions on wielding that massive machinery against the American public were central to the always-dubious claim that this security behemoth that operates completely in the dark was compatible with [[democracy]]. As the [[ACLU]] noted, “in its 1947 charter, the CIA was prohibited from spying against Americans, in part because [[President Truman]] was afraid that the agency would engage in political abuse.”<ref>https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-us-intelligence-community-flouting</ref>}}
CNET reported the following back in 2008:
CNET reported the following back in 2008: