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FBI Abused Secretive Surveillance Program,
Court Finds

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Posted By: earlybird, 4/28/2021 11:40:55 AM

The FBI continued abusing the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act program, including searching for information on people who had gone to the bureau to report they were victims of a crime, a newly declassified document shows. One FBI information specialist between April 11, 2019, and July 8, 2019, conducted approximately 124 queries of information obtained through secretive methods under the act, or FISA, which permits warrantless surveillance of foreigners outside of the United States. (Snip) The searches included looking at information for people who had requested to participate in a bureau-run citizens academy, a program for local leaders designed to foster greater understanding of the role of law enforcement, and people who needed

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Ida Lou Pino 4/28/2021 11:55:21 AM (No. 769626)
It was only .00001% of the FBI agents who did this - - because the other 99.9999% are honest and patriotic.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: JayD 4/28/2021 12:06:36 PM (No. 769633)
This is exactly what everyone opposed to FISA and the whole "Patriot Act" warned, that it would be abused. No real surprise at all. The name given to bills is frequently a tip-off, as the actual effect of the law will be the opposite of its name. Examples: Affordable Care Act (greatly increased the cost of healthcare), For the People Act (takes power away from the people by giving control of elections to the Federal government, and reduces election integrity), USA-PATRIOT Act (actually an acronym, but provided easily abused tools that were not appropriate, and made abusers of the tools less than patriotic).
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Reply 3 - Posted by: dst4life 4/28/2021 12:10:55 PM (No. 769636)
FTA: “Essentially this means the FBI was able to conduct warrantless domestic searches without the FISA Court approval they were supposed to get, at best because personnel were sloppy, at worst because using the default settings gave plausible deniability for abuse,” he added. The FBI is abusing American citizens. And if the citizens report the abuse, the government simply doubles down in its abuse. We are in such trouble. Secession is in order.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Heil Liberals 4/28/2021 12:11:10 PM (No. 769637)
Once again it is pointed out what everyone knows: The King wears no clothes. The FBI needs to be dissolved. It has become a criminal organization, if it ever wasn't one to begin with.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: MickTurn 4/28/2021 12:58:27 PM (No. 769688)
I personally have a problem with the 99% of those 'Good agents'...if there are so many of them why aren't ALL OF THEM whistle blowers. There is no way THAT can be covered up or those 99% be abused...the numbers would not allow that! IF you don't squeal on the bad actors you ARE ONE!
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Jethro bo 4/28/2021 1:01:27 PM (No. 769694)
You know the FBI is performing illegal searches on each and everyone of us on this board as we type. You do know that!
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Reply 7 - Posted by: dst4life 4/28/2021 1:04:29 PM (No. 769698)
#6, you are correct.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: DVC 4/28/2021 1:07:23 PM (No. 769704)
FBI = KGB. Nothing will be done at all.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Nimby 4/28/2021 1:37:27 PM (No. 769742)
Court finds? Then they should be throwing all the FISA warrants out.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Muguy 4/28/2021 2:03:08 PM (No. 769764)
They must think THEY are "the company"--
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Rotten in Denmark 4/28/2021 3:01:19 PM (No. 769806)
My GAS meter won’t move. Until real arrests of wheels in the fibbers occur, it mean nothing.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Lawsy0 4/28/2021 3:33:57 PM (No. 769834)
What we have here is a spy business, wholly owned and operated by the government of, for and by ''the people'' from 1924 on and directed by a cross-dressing fairy since 1935? What could possibly go wrong?
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