A letter from US House Intelligence Committee members
demands answers from the DNI about illegal breaches of the wall guarding
against CIA and NSA domestic activity.
Then-Vice President Joseph Biden (L) with former Central Intelligence
Agency Director Leon Panetta (R) at CIA headquarters in McLean,
Virginia. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
By Glenn Greenwald: A report declassified last Wednesday by the
Department of Homeland Security is raising serious concerns about the
possibly illegal involvement by the intelligence community in U.S.
domestic political affairs.
Entitled “Domestic Violent Extremism Poses Heightened Threat in 2021,” the March 1 Report
from the Director of National Intelligence states that it was prepared
“in consultation with the Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland
Security—and was drafted by the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC),
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Department of Homeland
Security (DHS), with contributions from the Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA) and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).”