It's no surprise that some politicians are trying to exploit the episode by arguing that it proves the value of the National Security Agency's domestic intelligence sweeps.
After recent revelations of intelligence sweeps of telephone and Internet records, Mr. Paul has further cast himself as the most prominent Congressional critic of government surveillance, calling for a class-action suit against the White House.
WASHINGTON ― There was at least one remarkable revelation from Wednesday's Senate Intelligence Committee hearing that had nothing to do with President Donald Trump and Russia: Top national security officials declared they couldn't estimate how many Americans get ensnared in their massive intelligence sweeps.
The reported arrest this month of a colonel in Lebanese army intelligence, identified solely by the initials GS, brings the number of those charged to 70-plus; 40 of them are in Lebanese police custody.For a force better known for its failure to manage traffic, let alone resolve Lebanon's sorry catalogue of political murders, the counter-intelligence sweep is an unprecedented coup.
Police and intelligence officers swept into towns and villages in the northern West Bank late on Saturday.
Mr Sethi was beaten up and arrested in May, and held by military intelligence.Mbeki sweeps inSouth Africa held its second democratic election.
Hatchet-jawed General Mike Flynn, a former head of the defence intelligence agency, sweeps both his arms like a football coach to stoke the anger.
The raids, executed in large part by Hoover's intelligence division, swept up thousands of people suspected of being communists and radicals.
His fighters allowed Adel's investigators to comb through the military intelligence building and sweep up the files and loose papers scattered around its deserted shell.
Privacy campaigners said the powers outlined in the draft guidance detailed the powers of intelligence services to sweep up content of a computer or smartphone, listen to their phone calls, track their locations or even switch on the microphones or cameras on mobile phones.
