“The change last year to a Department of Defense manual on procedures governing its intelligence activities was made possible by a decades-old presidential executive order, bypassing congressional and court review. The new manual, released in August 2016, now permits the collection of information about Americans for counterintelligence purposes ‘when no specific connection to foreign terrorist(s) has been established,’ according to training slides created last year by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI).”
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