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Trump Administration Moves to Allow Intelligence Agencies Easier Access to Law Enforcement Files (www.propublica.org)

submitted 1 month ago by AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works to c/news@lemmy.world

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The Trump administration is loosening restrictions on the sharing of law enforcement information with the CIA and other intelligence agencies, officials said, overriding controls that have been in place for decades to protect the privacy of U.S. citizens.

Government officials said the changes could give the intelligence agencies access to a database containing hundreds of millions of documents — from FBI case files and banking records to criminal investigations of labor unions — that touch on the activities of law-abiding Americans.

Administration officials said they are providing the intelligence agencies with more information from investigations by the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration and other agencies to combat drug gangs and other transnational criminal groups that the administration has classified as terrorists.

But they have taken these steps with almost no public acknowledgement or notification to Congress. Inside the government, officials said, the process has been marked by a similar lack of transparency, with scant high-level discussion and little debate among government lawyers.

“None of this has been thought through very carefully — which is shocking,” one intelligence official said of the moves to expand information sharing. “There are a lot of privacy concerns out there, and nobody really wants to deal with them.”

A spokesperson for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Olivia Coleman, declined to answer specific questions about the expanded information sharing or the legal basis for it.

Instead, she cited some recent public statements by senior administration officials, including one in which the national intelligence director, Tulsi Gabbard, emphasized the importance of “making sure that we have seamless two-way push communications with our law enforcement partners to facilitate that bi-directional sharing of information.”

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[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

“None of this has been thought through very carefully — which is shocking,” one intelligence official said

Is it though? "Intelligence official", I remain unconvinced.

Also are the drug gangs in the room with us right now?

It's amazing what you can convince people of when they only leave their suburban McWorkerDwellings to go to their jobs and shop, never actually seeing or understanding their own communities.

It's like these clowns summoned Reagan's ghost from the pits and are taking advice from it.

[–] Tramort@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

Can we start with the Trump-Epstein files?