FBI director Kash Patel told lawmakers that the agency is actively purchasing commercially available location data, which can track Americans without needing a warrant.
Several senators are on record saying the public would be shocked if they knew what their government was doing in regards to spying on Americans and even Congress itself. This is post-snowden as well so it is apparently way worse than the horrible shit that was already exposed.
The timeline definitely says something about the shift of the Overton window within the government itself, with what they’re willing to admit and normalize. Hopefully the same Overton window doesn’t shift as radically for the people.
If they’re admitting to this, just imagine everything they’re not.
Several senators are on record saying the public would be shocked if they knew what their government was doing in regards to spying on Americans and even Congress itself. This is post-snowden as well so it is apparently way worse than the horrible shit that was already exposed.
One of those senators (Ron Wyden) is the one that asked the question Patel was answering in this hearing.
The timeline definitely says something about the shift of the Overton window within the government itself, with what they’re willing to admit and normalize. Hopefully the same Overton window doesn’t shift as radically for the people.