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For five consecutive years the U.S. intelligence community has admitted to the FISA court they continually conduct illegal searches of U.S. citizen data under the Obama administration, using the NSA database, and they admit to illegally extracting information which is illegally shared with interests outside the intelligence community.<ref>https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/how-fbi-violated-privacy-rights-tens-thousands-americans</ref>  [[Glenn Greenwald]] observed:

For five consecutive years the U.S. intelligence community has admitted to the FISA court they continually conduct illegal searches of U.S. citizen data under the Obama administration, using the NSA database, and they admit to illegally extracting information which is illegally shared with interests outside the intelligence community.<ref>https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/how-fbi-violated-privacy-rights-tens-thousands-americans</ref>  [[Glenn Greenwald]] observed:

[[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]].]]

[[File:Fisa-Mary-McCord-and-company-768x780.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Veterans of intelligence community scandals (clockwise from lower left): [[Judge Boasberg]], [[Mary McCord (DOJ)]], [[Eric Ciaramella]], [[Alexander Vindman]], [[Michael Atkinson]], [[John Carlin]].]]

{{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: