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FBI abused spy law but only like 280,000 times in a year
The Register ^ | Mon 22 May 2023 | Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Posted on 05/23/2023 3:36:46 AM PDT by LuigiBonnafini

The FBI misused controversial surveillance powers more than 278,000 times between 2020 and early 2021 to conduct warrantless searches on George Floyd protesters, January 6 rioters who stormed the Capitol, and donors to a Congressional campaign, according to a newly unclassified court opinion.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: abuse; crookedbureaucrats; crookedcops; crookedpoliticians; dojiscrookcentral; fbi; fbinfidelity; fisa; spying

1 posted on 05/23/2023 3:36:46 AM PDT by LuigiBonnafini
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To: LuigiBonnafini

We don’t really have laws any more. The leaders persecute who they want to persecute and ignore transgressions by their own foot soldiers.


2 posted on 05/23/2023 3:39:22 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (“You want it one way, but it's the other way”)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Not a word about the bigger crime the FBI is guilty of from their abuse of FISA, sedition. The FBI, as Roberts watched, munching his popcorn, abused FISA to start the Crossfire Hurricane ball rolling. That was the beginnings of the coup which led to the seditious overthrow of the duly elected government of the United States.


3 posted on 05/23/2023 3:53:32 AM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: LuigiBonnafini

There should be 200,000 criminal charges filed.


4 posted on 05/23/2023 4:21:57 AM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: hardspunned

...and yet President Trump mutters something about ‘find more votes’ in Georgia over the phone, and they want to lock him in a dungeon with an iron mask.


5 posted on 05/23/2023 4:22:08 AM PDT by fhayek
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To: coloradan

280,000.


6 posted on 05/23/2023 4:22:20 AM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: fhayek

‘find more votes’

There has probably never been a US presidential candidate who DID NOT express himself that way, at some point in his campaign


7 posted on 05/23/2023 5:57:07 AM PDT by SMARTY (“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
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To: LuigiBonnafini

The FBI learned a lot from the Mafia.


8 posted on 05/23/2023 5:58:17 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: LuigiBonnafini

280,000 out of 3,000,000. Less than 10%


9 posted on 05/23/2023 6:18:41 AM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness )
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To: LuigiBonnafini

And the whining fisa court allowed it. Poor things got tricked over and over.


10 posted on 05/23/2023 6:28:34 AM PDT by pas
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To: LuigiBonnafini

“On Friday, the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court made public a heavily redacted April 2022”

This, from the most transparent administration in history. Must need to hide methods and sources again.

Good news is that 280,000 is less than one percent of the U.S. population.

Bad news is, all 280,000 were conservatives . . .


11 posted on 05/23/2023 6:36:59 AM PDT by MCSETots (at)
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To: LuigiBonnafini

Update:

Of the 280,000, it was 279,998 conservatives, Tulsi Gabbard and RFK, Jr. . . .


12 posted on 05/23/2023 6:39:14 AM PDT by MCSETots (at)
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To: griswold3

That was sarcasm, right?


13 posted on 05/23/2023 6:52:23 AM PDT by RWGinger (LGB)
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To: RWGinger

sorry, forgot my sarcasm tag.


14 posted on 05/23/2023 6:54:07 AM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness )
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To: griswold3

It seemed obvious
But in today’s world you never know


15 posted on 05/23/2023 7:00:22 AM PDT by RWGinger (LGB)
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To: LuigiBonnafini

”In your face” is our communist masters’ favorite tool to rattle the chains of tyranny that they have wrapped around our necks...


16 posted on 05/23/2023 7:10:05 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: coloradan

Only 280,000 times in a year??? How about 767 times in a day. Or maybe 32 times per hour? Or better yet, ONE TIME every 30 Seconds!!!

These FIBs are working too hard.


17 posted on 05/23/2023 7:44:43 AM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: LuigiBonnafini

Conformation of treachery complete huh Moe?.


18 posted on 05/23/2023 9:29:51 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: SuperLuminal
“In your face” is our communist masters’ favorite tool to rattle the chains of tyranny that they have wrapped around our necks...

That chain is our belief in the rule of law, which we adhere to and they laugh at. That imbalance cannot last very long - either government returns to it or the people will completely abandon it, themselves.

19 posted on 05/27/2023 8:59:56 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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