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FBI Wrongly Searched Surveillance Data for US Senator’s Name, Court Finds

July 21, 2023
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FBI employees and agents inappropriately searched foreign surveillance data for the last names of a state senator and a U.S. senator, said a court opinion that was released Friday. The newly disclosed finding is included in the release of a 117-page order (pdf) declassified on July 16 by the federal judiciary’s foreign intelligence surveillance court in April—a…

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Trump Says ‘Probably’ a Mistake Putting Christopher Wray in Charge of FBI

July 16, 2023
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President Donald Trump said that it was “probably” a mistake to put Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray in his current post amid a litany of concerns about the agency chief’s conduct. Following his decision in May 2017 to fire former FBI Director James Comey over his handling of an investigation into former…

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Lawmakers Vow Reforms to Government’s Secretive Surveillance Power

July 14, 2023
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The law authorizing warrantless searches of data on U.S. citizens by the federal government has been so consistently abused that it must be either thoroughly revised or allowed to expire this year, surveillance and privacy advocates say. “A law designed to provide tools to collect foreign intelligence and prevent terrorist attacks has been warped into…

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Bipartisan Lawmakers Vow Reforms to Government’s Secretive Surveillance Power

July 14, 2023
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The law authorizing warrantless searches of data on U.S. citizens by the federal government has been so consistently abused that it must be either thoroughly revised or allowed to expire this year, surveillance and privacy advocates say. “A law designed to provide tools to collect foreign intelligence and prevent terrorist attacks has been warped into…

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LIVE NOW: House Judiciary Subcommittee’s Hearing on ‘Fixing FISA’ (Part II)

July 14, 2023
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The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance holds a hearing about “Fixing FISA, Part II” at 9:15 a.m. ET on July 14 to”examine the expansion of warrantless surveillance of Americans, the FBI’s continued abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and its failure to implement meaningful reforms.” Witnesses: Jonathan Turley, J.B….

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House Judiciary Subcommittee’s Hearing on ‘Fixing FISA’ (Part II)

July 14, 2023
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The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance holds a hearing about “Fixing FISA, Part II” at 9:15 a.m. ET on July 14 to”examine the expansion of warrantless surveillance of Americans, the FBI’s continued abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and its failure to implement meaningful reforms.” Witnesses: Jonathan Turley, J.B….

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LIVE 10 AM ET: Senate Judiciary Committee Reviews Section 702 of the FISA and Related Surveillance Authorities

June 13, 2023
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U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee holds an oversight hearing on “Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and Related Surveillance Authorities” at 10:00 a.m. ET on June 13. David Cohen, deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency; George Barnes, deputy director of the National Security Agency; Chris Fonzone, general counsel of the Office of the…

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LIVE NOW: Senate Judiciary Committee Reviews Section 702 of the FISA and Related Surveillance Authorities

June 13, 2023
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U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee holds an oversight hearing on “Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and Related Surveillance Authorities” at 10:00 a.m. ET on June 13. David Cohen, deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency; George Barnes, deputy director of the National Security Agency; Chris Fonzone, general counsel of the Office of the…

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Senate Judiciary Committee Reviews Section 702 of the FISA and Related Surveillance Authorities

June 13, 2023
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U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee holds an oversight hearing on “Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and Related Surveillance Authorities” at 10:00 a.m. ET on June 13. David Cohen, deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency; George Barnes, deputy director of the National Security Agency; Chris Fonzone, general counsel of the Office of the…

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ANALYSIS: Scope of FBI’s Use of 702 Section Data on Americans Revealed for 1st Time

May 31, 2023
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News Analysis The FBI’s use of warrantless “backdoor searches” of a vast amount of information known as the Section 702 database—which is intended for targeted surveillance of foreign persons located outside the United States—to spy on Americans is far more widespread than previously thought, according to a new report from the Office of the Director of National…

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