10-08-2019, 06:44 PM
Per The Wall Street Journal... FBIâ€s Use of Surveillance Database Violated Americans†Privacy Rights, Court Found
U.S. discloses ruling last year by Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that FBIâ€s data queries of U.S. citizens were unconstitutional... some of the Federal Bureau of Investigationâ€s electronic surveillance activities violated the constitutional privacy rights of Americans swept up in a controversial foreign intelligence program, a secretive surveillance court has ruled.
The intelligence community disclosed Tuesday that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court last year found that the FBIâ€s pursuit of data about Americans ensnared in a warrantless internet-surveillance program intended to target foreign suspects may have violated the law authorizing the program, as well as the Constitutionâ€s Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches.
[The] court ruling identifies tens of thousands of improper searches of raw intelligence databases by the bureau in 2017 and 2018 that it deemed improper in part because they involved data related to tens of thousands of emails or telephone numbers—in one case, suggesting that the FBI was using the intelligence information to vet its personnel and cooperating sources. Federal law requires that the database only be searched by the FBI as part of seeking evidence of a crime or for foreign intelligence information.
The WSJ... https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbis-use-of...1570559882
2018 FISC ruling... https://www.intelligence.gov/assets/docu...8Oct18.pdf
2017 FISC ruling... https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/icot...r_2017.pdf
Release of Documents Related to the 2018 FISA Section 702 Certifications... https://icontherecord.tumblr.com/post/18...-2018-fisa
U.S. discloses ruling last year by Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that FBIâ€s data queries of U.S. citizens were unconstitutional... some of the Federal Bureau of Investigationâ€s electronic surveillance activities violated the constitutional privacy rights of Americans swept up in a controversial foreign intelligence program, a secretive surveillance court has ruled.
The intelligence community disclosed Tuesday that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court last year found that the FBIâ€s pursuit of data about Americans ensnared in a warrantless internet-surveillance program intended to target foreign suspects may have violated the law authorizing the program, as well as the Constitutionâ€s Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches.
[The] court ruling identifies tens of thousands of improper searches of raw intelligence databases by the bureau in 2017 and 2018 that it deemed improper in part because they involved data related to tens of thousands of emails or telephone numbers—in one case, suggesting that the FBI was using the intelligence information to vet its personnel and cooperating sources. Federal law requires that the database only be searched by the FBI as part of seeking evidence of a crime or for foreign intelligence information.
The WSJ... https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbis-use-of...1570559882
2018 FISC ruling... https://www.intelligence.gov/assets/docu...8Oct18.pdf
2017 FISC ruling... https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/icot...r_2017.pdf
Release of Documents Related to the 2018 FISA Section 702 Certifications... https://icontherecord.tumblr.com/post/18...-2018-fisa