U.S. Senator Slotkin Wants Intelligence Leaders To Confirm Americans Aren’t Under Surveillance

(Washington, DC) – U.S. Senator Elissa Slotkin is asking the nation’s intelligence leaders to confirm in writing that American citizens are not under surveillance. Slotkin sent a letter to CIA director John Ratcliffe, National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard and others last week, saying she fears they are being drawn into domestic political conflicts “in violation of our laws and the Constitution.”

The Senator is a former CIA analyst who worked under former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama and says the intelligence community “exists to defend the United States against foreign adversaries – not to monitor, investigate, or target Americans.”