That's right. The FBI and the NSA conducted a minimum of 1 MILLION illegal data-searches on American citizens--and none of those were reported to the FISA Court (duh.)
...[Because Donald Trump authorized this], in late 2021 IG Horowitz began the very first compliance review, outside of the limitations of the NSA/FBI self-reporting, and looked at the totality of the FISA-702 process as it was used to access the database from December 2020 to December 2021. His first full report was generated only a few months ago, and the IG testified to Congress. [LINK]
None of the FISA-702 reauthorizations, that have taken place between origination to today, have ever included a review of the entire government access, until Horowitz testified in late April.
More than 3.4 million search queries into the NSA database took place between Dec. 1st, 2020, and Nov. 30th, 2021, by government officials and/or contractors working on behalf of the federal government. This number is much, much larger than the search queries produced by NSA/FBI review to the FISA Court.
Additionally, as noted by IG Horowitz around 10,000 federal employees have access to conduct these searches of the NSA database, and his review of the searches revealed that 30% of them, that’s over a million, were noncompliant....
Your Congress is about to renew Section 702.
Ask your local congress-critter why they are doing so, given the massive lying-by-omission revealed here.
Should be an interesting answer--if you ever get one.
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