Some of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’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 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.... --Ace quoting WSJ
IOW, it was conveeeeeeeeeeeeenient to cheat by accessing a database for purposes other than what was legally permitted.
Think it doesn't concern you? Think again, ringding: do you know anyone in the FBI? Did you serve as a reference for anyone seeking to join the FBI? Do you know a "cooperating source" (How do you know that, by the way? You don't know--so anyone you know COULD be a 'cooperating source.')
That means that YOUR phone number or email address has been hoovered up by the lazy bastards. You're one step closer to your very own proctological!! Congrats!!
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