The CIA could be spying on you – and you wouldn't even know it. That's because the CIA quietly confessed to Senators it's been running a bulk data collection program on millions of Americans1, all without a warrant, and they've been doing it for years.
The level of secrecy here means we don't know exactly which records the CIA is scooping up. It could be information about our phone calls, emails, text messages, and more – they won't say. But we cannot let it continue.
There's a bill in Congress right now called the 4th Amendment Is Not For Sale Act that will put a stop to this mass surveillance – and it has bipartisan support. You can help push this bill over the finish line by telling your members of Congress to pass it.
Sign the petition: Tell Congress to pass the 4th Amendment Is Not For Sale Act and end warrantless mass spying on Americans!
Edward Snowden revealed the NSA had been running a massive government spying program targeting innocent Americans back in 2013. The CIA admission indicates they've probably been doing the same thing for who knows how long, and for who knows what purpose.
This bombshell is just the latest in a series of government abuses that the 4th Amendment was designed to prevent. From the NSA swooping up all our phone call information, to the FBI using the Patriot Act to spy on any American without getting a warrant or proving probable cause, to Customs and Border Patrol buying location data of journalists, at every level – and now at the super secretive CIA – our government has been violating our basic right to privacy.
But when activists like you speak up, we win. Two years ago public pressure from Demand Progress activists just like you caused Congress to let a provision of the Patriot Act that authorized massive spying at the FBI and NSA expire.
We need you to step up again and demand that Congress close loopholes that allow our government to blanket spy on us for no reason.
Sign the petition: Tell Congress to pass the 4th Amendment Is Not For Sale Act and end warrantless mass spying on Americans!
Sources:
1. New York Times, "C.I.A. Is Collecting in Bulk Certain Data Affecting Americans, Senators Warn," February 10, 2022.