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Trump Administration Moves to Allow Intelligence Agencies Easier Access to Law Enforcement Files (www.propublica.org)
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The Trump administration is loosening restrictions on the sharing of law enforcement information with the CIA and other intelligence agencies, officials said, overriding controls that have been in place for decades to protect the privacy of U.S. citizens.

Government officials said the changes could give the intelligence agencies access to a database containing hundreds of millions of documents — from FBI case files and banking records to criminal investigations of labor unions — that touch on the activities of law-abiding Americans.

Administration officials said they are providing the intelligence agencies with more information from investigations by the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration and other agencies to combat drug gangs and other transnational criminal groups that the administration has classified as terrorists.

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[–] 2 points 8 months ago

But not to have and publish better records on crime, or even as an oversight force for law enforcement and how the people of the nation are treated?? This is more of that "arrest immigrants (here illegally) but never do a thing to the people that are hiring them (who would have to be breaking the law)" kinda law stuff you are doing, correct?

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    [–] 13 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Also known as bypassing the justice system to get free access to more blackmail material.

    Epstein sure taught Trump well.

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    • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    It’s too bad McCarthyism isn’t critically taught in most schools

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    [–] 5 points 8 months ago*

    “None of this has been thought through very carefully — which is shocking,” one intelligence official said

    Is it though? "Intelligence official", I remain unconvinced.

    Also are the drug gangs in the room with us right now?

    It's amazing what you can convince people of when they only leave their suburban McWorkerDwellings to go to their jobs and shop, never actually seeing or understanding their own communities.

    It's like these clowns summoned Reagan's ghost from the pits and are taking advice from it.

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    [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Can we start with the Trump-Epstein files?

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