Posted on 04/28/2021 8:20:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The FBI continued abusing the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act program, including searching for information on people who had gone to the bureau to report they were victims of a crime, a newly declassified document shows.
The Epoch Times One FBI information specialist between April 11, 2019, and July 8, 2019, conducted approximately 124 queries of information obtained through secretive methods under the act, or FISA, which permits warrantless surveillance of foreigners outside of the United States.
The surveillance can and has been used to ultimately obtain information on Americans.
The searches included looking at information for people who had requested to participate in a bureau-run citizens academy, a program for local leaders designed to foster greater understanding of the role of law enforcement, and people who needed to enter the field office the FBI worker was based in to conduct work, such as a repair, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court reported in the newly released document.
In other cases, people who entered the field office, which was not named, to report they were victims of the crime were subjected to the background search.
In another example that concerned chief court Judge James Boasberg, an FBI task force officer conducted 69 queries that were not in line with the agency’s internal rules on how to conduct the searches.
“The Court continues to be concerned about FBI querying practices involving U.S.-person query terms, including (1) application of the substantive standard for conducting queries; (2) queries that are designed to retrieve evidence of crime that is not foreign-intelligence information; and (3) recordkeeping and documentation requirements,” Boasberg wrote.
The government also self-reported numerous incidents where queries involving Americans were designed to return evidence of a crime completely unrelated to foreign intelligence without getting an order from the court.
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Power tools, in the wrong hands, are very dangerous.
The fact that the court has done nothing about it tells you they are not that concerned.
FBI is just a bunch of chickenshits scared to death of Hillary Clinton’s files she has on all of them.
Names?
Charges? Arrests?
*crickets*
Didn’t think so. Just theater.
Okay, whack their knuckles with a ruler then tell them not to do it again........................
Who cares? Every system of our government is irreparably broken. We need to face the fact that we are now living in a banana republic.
The FBI is a disaster. They are completely self-serving, and ripping off the taxpayer.
Powers of warrantless surveillance of citizens never was big on my radar back when I was naive and believed our alphabet agencies had the best interests of the public at heart, even though I called myself a libertarian, but now that it’s obvious how the FBI in particular is a politically managed agency, I weep for our future.
Anyone watching for a while has come to the conclusion that much of the FBI is not worried about the legality or Constitutionality of their actions.
That’s not they way they used a ruler........ EDGEWISE, like a blade...................
There are a few opinions out of this court that find rules not followed, then go on to criticize and demand correction as if correction is necessary. These opinions also say there is no 4th amendment violation, so apparently corrections aren’t really necessary.
I think the whole FISA thing is make work. It has no honestly useful function. Government will snoop without regard to any supposed legal barrier, and the most any court will do is toss evidence from time to time. Meanwhile, the courts feel obligated to gin up a story to make the people believe a falsehood, that the courts are protective of privacy.
With rusty nails and broken glass embedded in the wood
The FBI is a criminal empire.
No rusty nails. That would be heresy..............
So who is going to jail?
No one. DemonicRats are never punished!
Wait and see what happens to any right wingers who try to organize vs the left wingers who can organize for revolution without opposition. 50 million separate armed individuals are no threat. A few thousand organized and armed individuals are something the Deep State deeply fears.
Will someone among the “99% good ones” please come forward? Find ONE, Sean Hannity!
Damn! When is someone going to pull back the reigns on the FBI? I thought we had oversight to keep these people honest.
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