{"id":6375,"date":"2017-01-25T12:12:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T20:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/01\/25\/news-213\/"},"modified":"2017-01-25T12:12:50","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T20:12:50","slug":"news-213","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/01\/25\/news-213\/","title":{"rendered":"Pompeo sworn in as CIA chief amid opposition from surveillance critics"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mike Pompeo was sworn in late Monday as the new director of the Central Intelligence Agency amid protests from surveillance critics who worry about his conflicting views on a number of key issues. <\/p>\n

The oath of office was administered by Vice President Mike Pence <\/a> after the Senate voted in favor of his confirmation<\/a> in a 66-32 vote. <\/p>\n

Critics of Pompeo, a Republican representative from Kansas, are concerned that he may weigh in with the government on a rollback of many privacy reforms, including restrictions on the collection of bulk telephone metadata<\/a> from Americans by the National Security Agency under the USA Freedom Act. There are also concerns that the new director may try to introduce curbs on the use of encryption <\/a>and bring in measures to monitor the social media accounts. <\/p>\n

The new CIA chief wrote in January last year in an op-ed piece that Washington is \u201cblunting its surveillance powers\u201d<\/a> with measures like the USA Freedom Act. Pompeo had previously voted in favor<\/a> of the legislation. <\/p>\n

\u201cCongress should pass a law re-establishing collection of all metadata, and combining it with publicly available financial and lifestyle information into a comprehensive, searchable database,\u201d Pompeo wrote in the op-ed<\/a> he coauthored with constitutional lawyer David B. Rivkin. <\/p>\n

During a recent confirmation hearing, Pompeo did not provide details of limits he would accept, if any, to the new surveillance powers he has suggested. <\/p>\n

His proposals irked critics of the government\u2019s surveillance, who are concerned that Pompeo did not provide details when he was asked about the kind of data he would like the government to collect. <\/p>\n

\u201cAfter two rounds of submitted questions and a hearing, we still don\u2019t know what Congressman Pompeo meant when he referred to ‘all metadata’<\/a> or how he defines ‘publicly available financial and lifestyle information,'” said Ron Wyden, Democrat senator from Oregon, in a speech in the Senate. <\/p>\n

Wyden said that on issue after issue, whether on surveillance, torture or Russia, Pompeo had \u201ctaken two, three or four positions, depending on when he says it and who he\u2019s talking to.\u201d <\/p>\n

The CIA last week updated rules governing the collection, retention and dissemination of information on Americans<\/a> with an eye to addressing concerns about the collection and handling of the information in the course of overseas surveillance. One of the measures was to put a five-year limit on the holding of sensitive data. The rules introduced under the administration of former President Barack Obama come into effect on March 18. <\/p>\n

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Mike Pompeo was sworn in late Monday as the new director of the Central Intelligence Agency amid protests from surveillance critics who worry about his conflicting views on a number of key issues.<\/p>\n

The oath of office was administered by Vice President Mike Pence <\/a> after the Senate voted in favor of his confirmation<\/a> in a 66-32 vote.<\/p>\n

Critics of Pompeo, a Republican representative from Kansas, are concerned that he may weigh in with the government on a rollback of many privacy reforms, including restrictions on the collection of bulk telephone metadata<\/a> from Americans by the National Security Agency under the USA Freedom Act. There are also concerns that the new director may try to introduce curbs on the use of encryption <\/a>and bring in measures to monitor the social media accounts.<\/p>\n

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