Correct. As demonstrated in those links they used the information from repositories of the 702 survallience to illegally investigate individuals.
“At issue are improper queries of foreign intelligence information collected under section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which enables the government to gather the communications of targeted foreigners outside the US.”
Talking BLM members there and J6 here.
“In repeated episodes disclosed on Friday, the FBI’s own standards were not followed. The April 2022 order, for instances, details how the FBI queried the section 702 repository using the name of someone who was believed to have been at the Capitol during the January 6 6 riot. Officials obtained the information despite it not having any “analytical, investigative or evidentiary purpose”, the order said.”
If you had read the links you would see they are about how they both abused the 702 and FISA. But I guess that was to much for you. Ask yourself this “is section 702 part of FISA?”
Carter Page…AT THE TIME…was a CIA operative. They knew ALL about him and did not need a warrant. He became their pawn to use evidence they knew was a lie to secure this FISA warrant to spy on the Trump campaign. Do you remember the emails between Strozk and Page with Strozk telling Page the FBI had a plan to keep Trump out of the WH? You are familiar with both Horrowitz and Durham that confirmed this in their reports…correct? All of this was illicitly done and why the FISA judge is not coming after them…shows…he is also a part of our corrupt problem.
Just so I’m not missing anything, only the guardian article mentions 702, correct? I didn’t see it in the others but read them on my phone last night.
The Guardian article explains they queried the database. They didn’t use 702 to spy on BLM or j6 suspects. They checked to see if their names were in a database of information collected by 702 surveillance.
If that’s against the rules, those actions should stop for sure.
But they didn’t use 702 to surveil any of these people. Nor was it used to surveil Trump’s campaign as trump claimed and used as justification to not extend the program.
FISA appears to be one if the most abused programs the FBI has access to.
“The FBI isn’t supposed to use its most controversial spy tool to snoop on emails, texts, and other private communications of Americans or anyone located in the United States. However, that didn’t stop the FBI from sometimes knowingly using its Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Section 702 powers to conduct warrantless searches on US persons more than 280,000 times in 2020 and 2021, according to new disclosures. US Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) described the searches as “shocking abuses.”
Among the most concerning so-called backdoor searches on Americans were disclosures that the FBI ran more than 23,000 queries on people involved in storming the US Capitol, 19,000 on political campaign donors, and 133 on protesters after the police killing of George Floyd. The deputy director of the Center for Democracy and Technology’s Security and Surveillance Project, Jake Laperruque, said that “these latest revelations should set off alarm bells across Congress,” urging lawmakers in a statement not to re-authorize FISA Section 702 at the end of this year—when it’s due to expire—without a “full overhaul.”
“The systemic misuse of this warrantless surveillance tool has made FISA 702 as toxic as COINTELPRO and the FBI abuses of the Hoover years,” Laperruque said, while his group’s press release noted that the court opinion "confirmed the worst fears of civil rights and civil liberties advocates.” Widespread FBI abuse of foreign spy law sets off “alarm bells,” tech group says | Ars Technica
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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), who had supported a warrant requirement before ascending to Speaker, worked with Democrat leaders to kill the Biggs amendment. The two appeared to hold several votes in reserve, ready to vote against the amendment if necessary.
