Did you guys forget all about the judge who stated that the small sample of data they took from NSA, the system had been used for "ask" queries 1000s of times by people who had no business probing the people they were searching info on? She said then if we extrapolated the timeline its safe to say 10,000 times in a few years at least. The UN rep had 100s of queries and she told congress "someone must have stolen my library card" (I paraphrase) and nothing, nada, zilch was done.

This was in violation of any FISA laws already in place at the time and they did it anyway.

I say again FISA is just lipstick on a pig, it does nothing to prevent people from abusing the NSA system if there is no DOJ to stop it.

And even if no FISA was passed they will do it, the same as they have done since the 1940s.

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Posted by Bunk Moreland

Member since Dec 2010

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Posted on 4/15/24 at 8:13 pm to trinidadtiger

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A U.S. court found that the FBI improperly searched for information in a U.S. database of foreign intelligence 278,000 times over several years, including on Americans suspected of crimes, according to a ruling released on Friday.

The decision by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court was released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).

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How bad is warrantless spying by our government? Pretty bad. Last April, Inspector General Michael Horowitz testified that in 2021 (the most recent year for which data is available) U.S. intelligence agencies made more than 3.4 million search queries of the NSA database and that of these, about 30 percent were “non-compliant searches,” which means they fell outside the normal rules and regulations. In other words, they were illegal. Horowitz also revealed that the number of federal government employees who have the ability to conduct these illegal searches is more than 10,000.

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Posted by cadillacattack

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Member since May 2020

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Posted on 4/16/24 at 8:40 am to trinidadtiger

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I say again FISA is just lipstick on a pig, it does nothing to prevent people from abusing the NSA system if there is no DOJ to stop it.

^^^ absolutely this ^^^

Our current DOJ is aiding and abetting the weaponization of the surveillance state …

What happened to the 51 intel officers that falsely and knowingly supported the fake Russia Russia Russia political operation? …. nothing, that’s what. They didn’t even lose their security clearances.