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FBI told its cyber surveillance programs have actually not gone far enough - The Guardian | Report Cites ‘Significant Gap’ in FBI's Intelligence Goals, Practices - VOA

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FBI told its cyber surveillance programs have actually not gone far enough by Spencer Ackerman in New York and Alan Yuhas in Washington Wednesday March 25 th , 2015  at  5:33 PM Network Front | The Guardian 1 Share In-house 9/11 Review Commission calls for further expansion of informant and cyber surveillance networks but largely ignores domestic intelligence gathering An in-house review of the FBI has found the agency failing to go far enough in its expansion of physical and cyber surveillance programs, urging the bureau to recruit deeper networks of informants and bring its technological abilities up to pace with other intelligence agencies. While billed as a damning critique of the FBI, the in-house assessment known as the 9/11 Review Commission primarily attacks the bureau for not moving fast enough to become a domestic intelligence agency, precisely the direction in which the FBI has pivoted since the 2001 terror attacks. Continue reading...