Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) pointed to at least 12 programs used by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to track what Americans say online as evidence the agency has departed from its original mission.
Paul’s comments came during a hearing by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which heard testimony from DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on April 18 on his department’s budget requests.
The senator asserted that DHS has been using the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to perpetrate “abusive practices” tracking Americans’ online movements, saying even the American Civil Liberties Union concluded that it was time to reconsider the movements of DHS….