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Upwards of 10,000 DOJ personnel may have access to section 702-acquired FISA data.
pic.twitter.com/wyu3241mOQ— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) April 27, 2023
Intel Agencies Massively Undercounted Searches On Americans Under FISA Surveillance Rule, Report Finds
By: Micaela Burrow, Daily Caller, on April 28, 2023
Story continues below advertisementU.S. intelligence agencies undercounted the number of searches conducted on Americans through a controversial warrantless search law by 4,185, about one-third of the actual total, in 2018, according to a report released Friday.
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Section 702 allows U.S. intelligence agencies gathering data on Americans without a warrant as a consequence of surveilling foreign “targets” abroad, conducting several thousand searches each year. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) discovered “previously unrecognized counting errors” on the number of searches, or “queries,” conducted under Section 702 going back to 2017, according to the office’s 2022 annual transparency report on the Intelligence Community’s use of FISA authorities.
Previous reports recorded 9,707 so-called “queries” of Americans in 2018, but rectifying the counting error brought the number to 13,892, according to the report. There is not a one-to-one correlation between queries and individuals targeted; multiple searches may be conducted implicating a single person.
The National Security Agency (NSA) “engaged in a thorough search to identify any previously unreported U.S. person query terms,” the report stated.
Errors included “approved U.S. person query terms that had been under-counted as a consequence of their classification and training for new personnel” as well as “approved U.S. person query terms that had been over-counted as a result of NSA’s counting methodology,” the report found.
Other years recorded smaller over or under-counts; the National Security Agency, which conducts queries along with the FBI, found that it overcounted the number by 830 in 2017, 77 in 2019 and 384 in 2021, while it undercounted by 64 in 2020.
The number of non-U.S. persons targeted under Section 702 rose from 232,432 in 2021 to 246,073 in 2022, which is in keeping with past trends, according to the report.
Overall, intelligence agencies conducted 4,684 queries on U.S. persons in 2022, down from 8,406 in 2021 and 7,282 in 2020, according to the report. In addition, agencies gathered metadata (referred to as “non-contents”) on U.S. persons with 3,656 queries.
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4 Comments
11 months ago
A few links to the hearings’ highlights would have been useful.
11 months ago
How many arrests and convictions? ZERO. They are only concerned with “crushing” dissent. UP YOURS Federal Bureau of Incompetence!
11 months ago
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LJB
I would be remiss if I didn’t mention they’re pretty good at destroying / covering up evidence.
Last edited 11 months ago by LJB
11 months ago
The ONLY people that they are surveilling are patriots , Trump supporters, Catholics, and parents at school board meetings. Perhaps they should look to the BORDERS and check what’s coming into our country! Only when something catastrophic happens and they are left with egg on their face, will we be lambasted with a million excuses for their political incompetence.
