CIA amassing a huge database on Americans’ financial data

[unhappycamper]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/15/cia-amassing-a-huge-database-on-americans-financial-data/



CIA amassing a huge database on Americans’ financial data
By Agence France-Presse
Friday, November 15, 2013 8:44 EST

The Central Intelligence Agency is amassing a huge database of international money transfers that includes the financial and personal data of millions of Americans, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Under the program, the Federal Bureau of Investigation works with the CIA to collect large amounts of data on international transactions of Americans and others under the agency’s terror investigations.

The program is authorized by the same provision of the post-September 11 Patriot Act that allowed the National Security Agency to collect nearly all US phone records, officials familiar with the operation told the newspaper.

And like the NSA program that has caused an uproar both in the United States and abroad, the large-scale collection of data is authorized by a secret national security court known as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

[Trillo]

1. I once needed to send a small amount of money to a company in Brazil,

for a product I couldn't buy in the U.S. It was actually quite difficult and expensive to send money there. It made me realize the many ways in which Banksters have carved up our human society.