This is Mad Magazine Spy vs. Spy territory.
In an article narrating the current status of "The Cloud People Will Spy On You Any Damn Time They Please" S.702 legislation pushed by Tom Cotton (a Totalitarian pretending to be "conservative") and the ultra-Totalitarian Mark Warner (D)), we find this:
...A 2022 FISC opinion found an FBI analyst had queried the Section 702 database of Americans’ data to run a batch search on over 19,000 donors to a congressional campaign, with the Justice Department determining only eight of those queries had sufficient ties to foreign influence activities to comply with standards. Wyden and Massie have separately said the FBI and other intelligence agencies are now using what Massie calls “an innovative loophole to spy on Americans in ways” he cannot disclose because “the interpretation of the law” itself is “top secret.”...
Got that?
You cannot find out how the FEEBS (and other political operatives) are spying on you because they use a method to get around the Fourth Amendment which is "top secret."
Massie is bound and determined to shut down S.702, which is ONE of the reasons Massie was bounced out of his seat come January.
Side-question: do ya think that those massive data centers might be handy for compiling and indexing comms from every. single. American. in the not-too-distant future?
Well, DO ya', punk? You ought to. Because they can.
... three-letter agencies would still retain a parallel and largely unregulated avenue for mass data collection, surveillance, and profiling via commercially available data for purchase, known as the “data broker loophole.” As Eddington explains, “the Section 702 program’s threat is dwarfed by the avalanche of commercially available data—and radically permissive DHS and Justice Department investigative policies on what agents are allowed to do with that data.”...
They are helped along in that regard by EO's from Ron Reagan (!) and Bush the Dumber.
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