Posted on 10/16/2019 12:37:26 PM PDT by ransomnote
According to a new declassified ruling FBI employees abused NSA mass surveillance data in 2017 and 2018. In 2017 FBI employees conducted over 3.1 million searches from the NSA database including searching activities of US citizens.
Under current FBI rules surveillance data can only be searched if there is reasonable suspicion of crimes having taken place or clear risks to national security. But FBI employees and even contractors were searching the database to see what information they could find on U.S. citizens.
The bureau is OUT OF CONTROL!
CPO Magazine reported:
According to a new declassified ruling from the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), FBI personnel systematically abused National Security Agency (NSA) mass surveillance data in both 2017 and 2018. The 138-page ruling, which dates back to October 2018, was only unsealed 12 months later in October 2019. It offers a rare look at how the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been abusing the constitutional privacy rights of U.S. citizens with alarming regularity. The court ruling is also a stinging rebuke to the FBI’s overreach of its ability to search surveillance intelligence databases.
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Which employees, or will Big Media and their FBI BFFs tell us that punishment was already meted out, and let’s move on?
Or perhaps the BJ Clinton defense, “Mistakes were made, but you have to understand, we had a tough election to win, to overthrow 12 years of Republican presidents”.
As he said when questioned about Rat campaign finance violations.
Maybe they will blame Trump since it happened during his administration. disgusting!
They are only looking at Republicans, so it is okay.
and exactly ZERO of those people will be prosecuted...Banana Republic. Still think you are free?
I believe we’ve been instructed by the NYT that the ‘deep state’ is to be admired by right-thinking citizens. All they are trying to do is thwart the moves of an ill-legitimate (according to H. Clinton (D)) President. We should be grateful for their efforts on our behalf.
Yeah, the Rank and Filers of the FBI are just wonderful patriots. Why, look at all their whistle-blowers and testifiers.....
Ooops, sorry. I'm mistaken...Turns out they are nothing more than pension-grubbers.
Can we disband the FBI.....like yesterday?
Where’s Wray in all this?
Trump needs to insult Wray in a Tweet and then fire his deep-state @$$.
If 99% of FBI employees were “good people”, there would be approximately 34,650 whistle blowers camped out on the White House lawn.
Did anyone really think this wasn’t going to happen?
“Still think you are free?”
As long as we have an income tax, a tax regime that forces citizens to divulge s snit ice information to the government, we are not free.
Wray Must Be Fired. This was illegal and unacceptable.
As Director, he is responsible.
All run out of the NSA building in UT, setup by Harry Reid and partially staffed by members of the Mormon Church.
There is a reason Romney, Flake, McCain and Reid been working together on this.
Trump is out of control. 2017 and 2018. Never happened once in 2015 or 2016./sarc
“If 99% of FBI employees were “good people”, there would be approximately 34,650 whistle blowers camped out on the White House lawn.”
Doing what?
Sean has not said that about the FBI in awhile.
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