Biden’s Chance to Open a Clean Slate on Surveillance | RealClearPolitics
President Joe Biden has an unprecedented opportunity to restore faith in America s intelligence agencies — if he seizes this opportunity to make a clean break with the practices of the past 20 years.
The era begun on 9/11 featured the growth of government secrecy, mass surveillance, and misplaced priorities. Hundreds of millions of Americans information can now be captured by the FBI and National Security Agency simply because a person knows someone overseas — or a legal U.S. immigrant. As recently as 2015, the Department of Justice and NSA argued they didn t need a warrant to acquire the records of calls of all people in the United States based on the mere notion that some records could be relevant to foreign intelligence.