The FBI Broke The Law Over 278,000 Times With Illegal Searches On Americans
Shared By Peter Boykin – American Political Commentator / Citizen Journalist
The FBI Broke The Law Over 278,000 Times With Illegal Searches On Americans
The FBI made 278,000 illegal searches under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act database to target suspects of the January 6 riot, George Floyd protesters, victims of crimes, and donors of a congressional candidate, according to a recently unsealed court document.
In recent years, the FBI has come under fire from lawmakers and activists for abusing the Section 702 database to search for the communications of Americans without a warrant.
The FBI is only supposed to search the database if an agent is sure they will get evidence of a crime or get information relevant to foreign intelligence.
In the recently unsealed opinion, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court threatened to take action if the FBI doesn’t improve compliance.
“Nonetheless, compliance problems with the querying of Section 702 information have proven to be persistent and widespread. If they are not substantially mitigated by these recent measures, it may become necessary to consider other responses, such as substantially limiting the number of FBI personnel with access to unminimized Section 702 information,” he added.
The FBI argued that it was reasonable to assume that the searches would return foreign intelligence information.
Following the January 6 riot by former President Donald Trump supporters, an FBI employee searched the database 23,132 times on US citizens “To find evidence of possible foreign influence, although the analyst conducting the queries had no indications of foreign influence related to the query term used.” That was also a violation as there was no factual basis to expect the searches would produce evidence of crime or foreign intelligence.
[Source: Reclaim The Net]
https://reclaimthenet.org/fbi-278000-illegal-searches-on-americans
