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Playing devils advocate, but if Russia warns the US about another Boston bomber Tsarnaev -alike, should the citizenship of the suspect or the source of the inte
by willvarfar 10y ago
Playing devils advocate, but if Russia warns the US about another Boston bomber Tsarnaev -alike, should the citizenship of the suspect or the source of the intelligence affect the investigation?
I would imagine that if Pompeo had used such a hypothetical scenario in answering it would have been harder for a senator to vote against him.
- eis 10y agoI'm not an american citizen but I was under the impression that the CIA was foreign intelligence and local threats are the responsibility of other departments like the FBI which can legally spy on american citizens (following the appropriate procedures like obtaining warrants). It's not like the russians would tell the US government about a threat and the US government would throw the arms in the air and say "Well, shit. He's a US citizen, can't do anything then!"
- pc86 10y ago> following the appropriate procedures like obtaining warrants If only
- vanattab 10y agoThis more or less used to be true. But then Obama,in his last days in office, gave virtually all US law enforcement agencies unfettered access to nsa/Cia data. But you know he freed Chelsea Manning so all is good right?
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- Cuuugi 10y agoSemi-Relevant, but they aren't supposed to kill American citizens either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki
- JohnStrange 10y agoHowever, killing non-American citizens with drone strikes is apparently A-Okay.