Oversight
Who Is Dumb Enough to Trust the FBI and Trump Officials? Congress.
A newly revealed document shows shocking new spying abuses by the FBI — while they told politicians they were respecting Americans’ privacy
Once more, we have a major privacy scandal on our hands, and once more we’re reminded why we can’t trust our elected officials.
In a newly declassified court ruling the FBI has been secretly violating the privacy rights of Americans on a massive scale by trawling for private communications on huge swaths of citizens without a warrant. The shocking opinion didn’t just show that the FBI has been breaking both the law and the Constitution — it has made liars out of many national security officials and should be an embarrassment to the politicians in Congress who have let these abuses occur.
The secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA court) released a heavily redacted ruling on Tuesday that was written in October 2018. In it, the court documents the tens of thousands of times that FBI agents between 2017 and 2018 were illegally dipping into a huge National Security Agency (NSA) database and purposefully searching for emails and other communications of Americans.
