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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Remember, 99% Percent of those FBI guys are “A Okay”.
Cough, cough...
“Trust Wray” said the Qballs.
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“Trust Wray” said the Qballs.
Trust and anything Washington do not belong in the same sentence.
Qballs don’t belong here. Mock them every chance you get.
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But they just hired someone from the DOJ who was directly responsible for the abuses. See they have done something.
How would u ORGANIZE and move as a unit when ALL federal leo(s) and intel agencies have been weaponized against you? Remember, the NSA has the ability to intercept all electronic communications, so even local/state law enforcement coul be thwarted in supposedly safe “red” areas. If a unit cannot move, isn’t it safe to safe to say it can only play defense?
How do they even get a FISA court to sign off on this?
I don’t know how it could be organized. Frankly it’s too late.
Man o man. I hate to be pessimistic, since I’m Christian, BUT. Dang, The inability of Trump to quash the riots last year, especially at a federal courthouse that had nothing to do with Floyd, told me everything.
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