Democratic Senators Give Cryptic Warning About CIA Activities | EUROtoday

WASHINGTON ― Two senior members of the Senate Intelligence Committee are warning they learn about potential misconduct by the Central Intelligence Agency, however they’ll’t say what it’s.

In a public letter to CIA director John Ratcliffe, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) revealed on Wednesday he’d despatched one other letter, apparently categorized, expressing alarm about one thing the company is doing.

“I write to alert you to a classified letter I sent you earlier today, in which I express deep concerns about CIA activities,” Wyden mentioned within the letter, which his workplace launched Wednesday afternoon. “Thank you for your attention to this important matter.”

That’s all of the letter says.

Wyden beforehand delivered cryptic warnings concerning the CIA’s sister company, the National Security Agency.

“I want to deliver a warning this afternoon,” he mentioned in a Senate ground speech in 2011. “When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry.”

Two years later, NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed an intensive world and home surveillance operation that hoovered up Americans’ telephone data in bulk. A federal courtroom later dominated that the mass surveillance program was unlawful.

In a quick interview on Thursday, Wyden declined to clarify the letter, saying the matter is assessed.

“The reason I sent the public letter is that is all that I’m allowed to say publicly, and I’m gonna leave it at that,” he advised HuffPost. “I said what I did for a specific reason. I wrote it for a specific reason. That’s all I can say.”

A CIA spokesperson didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

Joining Wyden’s is the committee’s high Democrat, Sen. Mark Warner (Va.). A spokesperson for Warner mentioned the senator “shares many of the concerns expressed by Senator Wyden in his letter, and in fact he has expressed them to DCIA Ratcliffe himself.”

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, declined to remark.