The WikiLeaks document dump on the CIA’s hacking division appears to be far more damaging to U.S. spying abroad than threatening to average Americans at home.

This is not the outrageous domestic mass surveillance by the National Security Agency revealed by Edward Snowden in 2013 and rightly curtailed by President Barack Obama and Congress in 2015. The CIA is not legally allowed to operate within the U.S., and the FBI would have to get legal authorization to use these hacking tools against U.S. citizens.

Still, to make sure the CIA isn’t overstepping, it would be worth a congressional inquiry – far more so than the current president’s trumped-up accusations that Obama authorized a wiretap of Trump Tower before the election.

While it’s no secret that the CIA will use any means to gather intelligence, this is apparently the largest leak of its files in history. The trove of nearly 9,000 documents from 2013 to 2016 suggests that the agency has amassed more than 1,000 viruses and other hacking tools to get into smartphones, messaging apps and even Samsung smart televisions to collect text and voice messages before they are encrypted.

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