The FBI's Secret FISA Court Surveillance Applications Are Chock Full of Screw-Ups

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The FBI's Secret FISA Court Surveillance Applications Are Chock Full of Screw-Ups

1 October 2021

More than 400 problems were found with 29 warrant requests, twice the number previously revealed. The FBI has done an even worse job properly double-checking the accuracy of warrant applications to secretly snoop on Americans than was previously known, a new report details this week. We're talking about the use of the classified surveillance processes of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Courts to get permission to wiretap or otherwise spy on Americans who are suspected of involvement in crimes or actions that involve national security. Because this surveillance is kept secret from the citizens and they don't have the ...

The FBI's Secret FISA Court Surveillance Applications Are Chock Full of Screw-Ups

More than 400 problems were found with 29 warrant requests, twice the number previously revealed.

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The FBI Is Routinely Screwing Up FISA Warrants Targeting Americans

31 March 2020

Carter Page was not an anomaly. A report released today by the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Justice (OIG) warns that the problems found with the FBI's secret warrants to wiretap former Donald Trump aide Carter Page were not an anomaly. The agency regularly makes mistakes on its applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendment (FISA) Court when it asks for permission to secretly snoop on Americans. Back in December, the OIG released a blockbuster report showing that FBI agents made a number of significant omissions and errors in their four warrant applications to snoop on ...

The FBI Is Routinely Screwing Up FISA Warrants Targeting Americans

Carter Page was not an anomaly.

reason.com