John O. Brennan, the C.I.A. director, this month. He signed new rules governing the agency’s power to gather and use information about Americans. Credit Al Drago/The New York Times
Washington Post: CIA reveals new rules for handling information on Americans
The Obama administration has imposed new privacy restrictions on the CIA that are designed to limit its use of information on Americans — changes that the agency made public just two days before President-elect Donald Trump is to take office.
CIA officials described the changes as a comprehensive update to guidelines that have been in place since the early 1980s, adapting those rules for an age when sensitive data about Americans is increasingly abundant online and vulnerable to being swept up by U.S. intelligence agencies.
One of the new provisions requires the CIA to purge certain types of information that it gathers overseas — including communications that might involve U.S. individuals — from its systems within five years. There was no previous restriction on how long the agency could keep such materials, officials said.
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WNU Editor: This is being done with just 2 days left in his administration?!?!?!
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