ROGUE REGIME: FBI Spied On Americans’ Data At Record Pace Last Year

Democrat Gestapo, Stasi, KGB. Straight out of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged where the government annuls the rights of American citizens, and freedom is steadily eroded.

FBI Snooped On Americans’ Data At Record Pace Last Year

By: Greg Wilson, Daily Wire, May 1, 2022:

The FBI may have conducted millions of warrantless searches of Americans’ electronic data last year, U.S. intelligence officials acknowledged in a report released Friday.

The report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence revealed that the bureau conducted up to 3.4 million searches of U.S. data drawn from the National Security Agency. Senior Biden administration officials told The Wall Street Journal the number is likely inflated due to the way individual queries are tabulated, but the number was still nearly triple that of the prior year.

“We’re committed to proactively informing the public, who entrusts us to protect our nation and our civil liberties, on the Intelligence Community’s use of key national security authorities,” said ODNI Chief of Civil Liberties, Privacy, and Transparency Ben Huebner.

(1) The FBI conducts warrantless "backdoor searches" for Americans' data in Section 702 databases on a massive scale: up to 3.39 million of these searches last year. Though the FBI's arithmetic is fuzzy, it's clear that the scale of the problem is enormous. pic.twitter.com/M0VjG3X2in

— Ashley Gorski (@ashgorski) April 29, 2022

The report is the first time a U.S. intelligence agency has published an accounting of how the FBI scoops up data through Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The FBI has been heavily criticized for abusing this process in the Trump-Russia collusion investigation and Section 702, which governs the bureau’s actions, is set to expire next year……

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