President Joe Biden has an unprecedented opportunity to restore faith in America’s intelligence agencies if he seizes this opportunity to make a clean break with the practices of the past 20 years.
The era begun on 9/11 featured the growth of government secrecy, mass surveillance, and misplaced priorities. Hundreds of millions of Americans’ information can now be captured by the FBI and National Security Agency simply because a person knows someone overseas or a legal U.S. immigrant. As recently as 2015, the Department of Justice and NSA argued they didn’t need a warrant to acquire the records of calls of all people in the United States based on the mere notion that some records
A staff member removes the Iranian flag from the stage after a group picture during the Iran nuclear talks in Vienna, Austria July 2015. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
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