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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They search Republicans, conservatives and tea=party people, I’m sure, but terrorists like the Boston bombers?
Seemed to have missed those.
Great.
Now that’s another thing i have to be concerned about
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.
Thanks for posting this.
Romney and Flake hate our President and spend 24/7 trying to weaken him or by an outright coup to take him out.
Anyone else feel like calling this in to the fbi? They do have an online Tips website.
Most alphabet agencies need to be abolished. Most states can do those jobs better and more cost effectively. The FBI as one of our national law enforcement is a complete failure and threat to America.
If they're not, if it turns out that they're looking at dissenting Dems, too, wonder how the party will deal with THAT....
Don’t worry kids, nothing will happen to them, nobody is going to break up any families. But if Trump wanted to throw the Citizens a bone, the list of Searched names and those that did the Searching, all ILLEGALLY, should be Published post haste. Then They can be SUED PERSONALLY in to Homelessness for the rest of their miserable lives by every last Victim..
We CAN do something about it though.
If an FBI agent wants to talk to you invoke the Fifth Amendment and REFUSE. Even if they claim to be hot on the trail of the next Bin Laden. Don’t expose yourself to a process crime.
And if you are seated on a jury where any of the evidence was in FBI hands, you MUST vote to ACQUIT.
If Americans do these two things in large numbers, the FBI won’t be able to conduct investigations and they won’t be able to get convictions. The reason for them to exist will simply evaporate.
Another thought: how many times have these gallant and brave rank and file feds used information gleaned from these queries for personal gain? It could be as simple as learning who plans on developing what parcels of land?; who has been talking to whom about a merger or acquisition?; who booked themselves into which rehab facilities?; the possibilities for abuse of all the data held by NSA are endless.
How come Andrew McCabe drives a Porsche 911 GT4? How did Boy Scout Comey talk his way onto the board of HSBC?
3.1 million searches!! 3.1! That’s the equivalent of 4,200 search a day, every day for two years.
Ain’t no such thing as a 911 GT4
And if you are seated on a jury where any of the evidence was in FBI hands, you MUST vote to ACQUIT.
FBI has been a rotten org for a long long long time.
oops, right you are. It’s a GT3.
I have no dung they did this to cover up their spying on Trump. And that is also why they ultimately deleted them. They wanted to cover their tracks.
Amen.
I’ve been saying that got a while.
Giving secret depositions.
Locally, they play Brian Kilmead leading up to Noon., Rush’s starting hour. Kilmead is horrible, all he does is parrot the latest accusations / smears, useless waste of my time.
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