Lawmaker: Foreign agencies likely snooping on Congress

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Chances that foreign intelligence agencies are exploiting a cellular network flaw in order to spy on members of Congress are high, one member said this week. Even though American intelligence agencies are aware of that situation, they haven’t notified lawmakers, and it isn’t clear why.

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“I don’t know what the rules are for whether certain intelligence agencies believe they couldn’t share information for classification reasons, but in terms of members of Congress, all of us have security clearances, so it is profoundly odd to me that apparently most of us, or maybe all of us, were not briefed about this flaw,” Rep. Ted Lieu, a California Democrat, told the Washington Examiner.

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