John Kiriakou
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They can turn your smart TV into a microphone.
They can reverse engineer your speaker to turn into a microphone so they can listen to everything you're saying, even when the TV is off.
The technology is 20 years ahead of what anybody else thinks the technology is.
Without a warrant.
You know, at the CIA.
I mean, that's disturbing.
In training, they used to tell us all the time, our job is to break the law.
And I remember saying, yeah, but not here.
The job is to break the law over there.
Yeah, but.
I was perfectly happy and on multiple occasions actively participated in breaking into people's houses or offices and planting bugs and cameras.
We're the good guys.
That's what we have to do.
This is to protect the United States.
But not here.
You need a warrant.
And besides, the CIA is forbidden by law from doing anything operationally inside the United States.
That's what the FBI is for.
I just never understood this.
Like, why isn't it that clear to everybody?