The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released data in a report showing the warrantless searches conducted under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which nearly tripled from 2020 to 2021. A senior FBI official admitted to the Wall Street Journal that the 3.4 million warrantless searches “is certainly a large number,” adding that he would “not going to pretend that it isn’t.”
“For reasons discussed more fully below, these statistics are reported separately from NSA, CIA, and NCTC due to unique variations in FBI’s data, chief among them that FBI does not count the number of unique query terms, but instead counts the total number of queries, which could include duplicate queries of the same term,” the ODNI report stated.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), a top civil liberties advocate in Washington D.C., is demanding additional transparency and accountability regarding the startling number of warrantless searches.
“For anyone outside the U.S. government, the astronomical number of FBI searches of Americans’ communications is either highly alarming or entirely meaningless,” Wyden said. “Somewhere in all that over-counting are real numbers of FBI searches, for content and for non-content – numbers that Congress and the American people need before Section 702 is reauthorized.”
“The FBI must also be transparent about the particular circumstances in which it conducted a staggering 1.9 million additional queries in 2021. Finally, the public deserves to know whether the FBI has...
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Once upon a time I had great respect for Fibbies. Now if they show up at my domicile it will not end well for anyone involved. Sad.
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DeleteThey are all dead men walking. Even the women, its the NEW FBI!
FBI using the excuse they are short manpower as why Hunter, Hillary, Biden diary etc have not been looked at. Yet they were able to do 3.4 million illegal searches in 2021.
ReplyDeleteThat’s just the price of keeping Democrats in power, comrade. Just wait until the door to door searches start.
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Get the shovel.
If the FBeye wants to search my home, they'll first have to talk to my attorney, Mr. Ruger.
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