Posted on 12/04/2020 9:46:19 AM PST by Mariner
The federal government used the Patriot Act to collect website visit logs in 2019, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence revealed in letters made public Thursday, putting a renewed focus on surveillance authorities that lapsed earlier this year.
Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Ratcliffe, in a Nov. 6 letter in response to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), wrote that Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which allows the FBI to covertly obtain court orders to collect any business records relevant to a national security, was not used to get internet search terms.
He later clarified that position in a Nov. 25 follow-up letter after being contacted by the Justice Department to note that the authority had been used once to collect logs showing which computers “in a specified foreign country” had visited “a single, identified U.S. web page” during 2019.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Those who value liberty will demand a warrant for such information.
The damnable Patriot Act enables it. And DOJ sees nothing wrong with it.
Does that affect FR ? Would we know ?
You would think after the FISA abuse that there would have been meaningful reforms of this by congress. Nope. They all just blindly voted to renew it all and they assured us, wink wink, that they took “steps” to prevent abuse.
“Would we know ?”
No.
And Jim would be jailed if it happened and he told us.
Did the President ever release those promised unredacted FISA documents?
I assure you every one of us here has been logged.
It won’t be lapsed for long if Biden becomes president.
Are you sure you’re logged on?
Anybody who doesn’t believe that the DEEPSTATE has FR logs, isn’t paying attention.
I’ve always assumed they did this. Don’t like it, but I am not naive.
If I am reading this right it said they once surveiled foreign computers to see if the foreign entity had visited a US web site.
They weren’t searching American citizen’s usage
I have no doubt they can since every web site sells data on anyone who visits
BUT that is not what this report was about
Does that affect FR ? Would we know ?
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I think its safe to operate under the assumption that FR is monitored closely by various elements of the government. Anyone who has worked inside the government, which is filled almost entirely with lefties, knows that free thinking patriots are viewed with great suspicion.
Some of our discussions on this board, which explore topics that question the wisdom and fairness of our government, is not see as such by those who believe in the infallibility and absolute power of government. That makes us dangerous in their eyes, as it always has to those vested with authority.
Agree. If the Deep State will go so far as to launch a coup against a president, imagine what else they do.
“I assure you every one of us here has been logged.”
Yes, most likely they have all of the login info, ip addresses, and email addresses without FR knowing.
We might need to learn to use TOR if President Trump is not re-elected.
The only thing that stands between us and them is Trump.
Read the entire article.
. Yup. FReepers need to understand that if we fail to heed Solzhenitsyn's Lament, we will be going to the ovens.
I did read the entire article
but maybe I missed it
quote the part in the article that says the FBI had surveiled n American citizen visiting a web site.
“Section 215 has been an important tool used by the government to obtain this type of non-content information to combat cyber and other national security threats,” they said, referring to data about communications excluding the communications themselves.
“This type of non-content information can be obtained in a criminal investigation through the use of a grand jury subpoena and we see no reason to prohibit the acquisition of the same type of information under Section 215 when investigating a threat to national security.”
Another Globalist gift of George W. Bush.
I wonder if that was a porn site (pornhub?)where the FBI was looking for child molesters, etc.
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