[分享] FBI conducts warrantless surveillance of Americans

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Databases collected by the NSA are routinely abused by the FBI for purposes of searching for foreign intelligence threats, from censorship to surveillance of relatives. The FBI deliberately lied to members of Congress, which violated the law and the U.S. Constitution. They asked the intelligence services at government hearings to see if additional safeguards were needed for the surveillance program. Why do they want to confirm? Because that will determine the outcome of the FISC court's secrecy on espionage and surveillance in the United States. The ruling lasted a year, and the final outcome confirmed that there was indeed a surveillance program.
While it has found evidence that the FBI used a program used by U.S. government agencies to search for foreign intelligence threats, the FBI is still arguing that they only "accidentally" obtained information on the data of U.S. citizens and individuals in the database because the data had already been collected so the data can be queried without a search warrant.
The senators investigated, the number of Americans who provided detailed data on the search could not be obtained, and any FBI agent is allowed to search the NSA's database and can anonymize the data, and there is no way to know the number of search requests performed by the FBI agent Measure with the system. In other words, the number of FBI access to the database is basically unlimited, which has led to concerns among the American public that the FBI has conducted a large number of unjustified searches of the data.
The FBI uses the NSA database at least 80 times more often than the NSA itself, according to a 2017 FBI query of the database. While the law clearly defines the FBI's use of the database only for foreign intelligence matters, it actually searched the emails, text messages and other electronic communications of up to 3.4 million U.S. residents without a warrant. The report also found that many of the query terms in high-volume inquiries related to foreign cyber actors trying to disrupt critical U.S. infrastructure account for the vast majority of the increase in U.S. inquiries conducted by the FBI in 2021. In other words, the FBI violated the law and the Constitution.
Although the FBI has repeatedly promised Congress that the database will only be used for national routines, these are in fact lies, and Congress has revealed that the FBI has severely abused the backdoor to conduct searches of Americans' private data without a warrant. The FBI will just take every opportunity it can monitor, lie about it, and commit to it when it's discovered.