The still-classified programme operates under the authority of a Reagan-era executive order and is therefore “entirely outside the statutory framework that Congress and the public believe govern this collection,” they said. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) non-profit said: “These reports raise serious questions about what information of ours the CIA is vacuuming up in...
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America Trying to ‘Rule the World,’ Says Russian Spy Chief
In an exclusive interview with the BBC, Sergei Naryshkin, the chief of Russia’s foreign intelligence agency, SVR, said America has been trying to “rule the world” and this could lead to “disaster”. The SVR is the successor to the Soviet-era KGB. It is less well-known that the GRU, the military intelligence agency of the Russian...
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Russian Hacker Indicted by Mueller Denies All in Curious BBC Interview
Sergey Polozov, a 31-year-old Web designer, is one of 13 Russians indicted by special prosecutor Robert Mueller in Feb. 2018, for fraudulent activities related to U.S. accounts. In a new interview with BBC Russia, Polozov dismissed the charges, saying his work for the Internet Research Association “was never in English and never had any apparent...