"Cloak Of Darkness" Grows As US Widens Surveillance Dragnet To 'Homegrown Violent Extremists'

In the last months of President Obama's 'reign', Reuters reports that, thanks to a presidential executive order, bypassing congressional and court review, a Department of Defense manual on procedures governing its intelligence activities permits the collection of information about Americans for counterintelligence purposes even "when no specific connection to foreign terrorist(s) has been established."