New CIA privacy rules won’t limit spying on Americans: Analyst

The new privacy guidelines imposed on the CIA by the outgoing administration of US President Barack Obama to restrict domestic surveillance will not limit government eavesdropping on Americans, says Stephen Lendman, a journalist and political analyst in Chicago.

“So-called guidelines have been around for the past few decades; it certainly hasn’t stopped the CIA or NSA or FBI about doing anything they want to do,” Lendman said during an interview with Press TV on Thursday.

“Big brother watches everyone in America all the time; Americans are more spied on than ever before in US history,” he said.

“The spying continues; whatever guidelines Obama is putting out are really for public consumption, but in no way change the policy of America’s intelligence community,” he argued.

On Wednesday, the CIA published new privacy rules that are designed to limit its use of information on American citizens.

The updated procedures include what the CIA must…

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