Electronic surveillance

Secret Surveillance Gives CIA Power to Subvert US Domestic Political Process

On Wednesday, Human Rights Watch, a prominent watchdog group, said it had obtained documents documenting the Department of Defense’s policy on authorizing warrantless monitoring of US citizens and green-card holders considered to be "homegrown violent extremists."

Secret Surveillance Puts US Political Processes at Risk

The huge scale of the secret surveillance program posed clear dangers to undermine and manipulate democratic political processes within the United States, cyberwar and data collection expert and author William Blunden told Sputnik.

"With decades of experience in manipulating affairs abroad there's a very concrete threat of the CIA wielding its tools inside American borders," he said. "The perils of domestic covert operations are obvious given the nature of the CIA."