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FBI surveillance of Americans continues... - Maxmars - 05-09-2024
Apparently the renewal of the notorious Section 702 in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) has relaxed the FBI into leaking internal emails which demonstrate that they needed to encourage their staff to do it, despite the deviation from the spirit of the law.
From Gizmodo.com: Leaked FBI Email Reportedly Shows Desperation to Justify Warrantless Wiretaps
Subtitled: "I urge everyone to continue to look for ways to appropriately use US person queries..."
Congress reauthorized America’s warrantless wiretapping program last month after some successful fearmongering by national security hawks on Capitol Hill. But an internal FBI email, leaked to Wired on Wednesday, may accidentally reveal how the federal law enforcement agency plans to overstep the spirit of the law, while technically maintaining the letter of the law.
The controversial spying program is Section 702 in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and allows the interception of foreign communications that sometimes include American citizens. The program ostensibly includes safeguards to ensure the law isn’t being used to unnecessarily spy on Americans, but it’s pretty clear from this new email that the FBI likes being able to get communications from Americans.
It isn't that it's exactly 'surprising,' ... just disappointing...
“To continue to demonstrate why tools like this are essential to our mission, we need to use them, while also holding ourselves accountable for doing so properly and in compliance with legal requirements,” the email reads, according to Wired, which notes that the italicization on the word “use” was in the original email.
The FBI email made things even more explicit by encouraging searches for Americans when looking through intercepted communications.
“I urge everyone to continue to look for ways to appropriately use US person queries to advance the mission, with the added confidence that this new pre-approval requirement will help ensure that those queries are fully compliant with the law,” the email reads.
"Welcome to the churn...."
