Reply #3: Wants to usurp Judicial Branch oversight [View All]

[Trillo]

"Simply put, in a significant number of cases, we are in the unfortunate position of having to obtain court orders to effectively collect foreign intelligence about foreign targets located overseas," he wrote the committee chairman, Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas.

Bolding is mine.


I guess it's no small irony that to Britain, or Australia, or France, etc., an American citizen is an overseas foreigner, and could be defined as a "target" for their intelligence collection, the database of which could shared with others, including the American government.

Edited to add: Presumably, the American government's intelligence could thus be shared with other governments, without any Judicial Branch (impartial) record of the transaction and contents. (is there monetary value herein?)

Just the other day we read about European Union commercial jet passenger information being shared with our government, even though that information about each of their citizens was supposed to be protected by their government's privacy laws.

In writing this out, it appears to be the Corporatist Takeover of all past laws and customs of all the world, including our own.