On Friday this week, an article published in the Washington Examiner by senior watchdog reporter Mark Flatten offered a detailed look at the database, and dared to ask questions about the sparsely discussed system amid growing concerns about government-sanctioned surveillance. “Those fears are heightened by recent disclosures of theNational Security Agency spying on Americans, and the CIA allegedly spying on Congress,” Flatten wrote. Unlike the NSA’s conduct or the Central Intelligence Agency’s activities, though, the LInX system is a US military operation. The NCIS got the initiative off the ground in 2003, and says on their website that it is “designed to enhance information sharing between local, state, and federal law enforcement in areas of strategic importance to the Department of the Navy.”
Posted on: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 22:40:36 +0000
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