FBI Finally Forced to Admit…

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The FBI was forced to admit that yes, they really have been illegally spying on Americans. They’ve been doing it for years and did it more than 278,000 times. “It’s okay and there’s no reason to take away our Section 702 toolkit or anything,” Christopher Wray insists, because they already fixed it. We’re supposed to trust him on that. They might have gotten away with it if this report didn’t come out the same week as the one from John Durham. That’s the one which spelled out exactly how the Federal Bureau of Instigation and the Just Us Department conspired with Hillary Clinton to rig the 2016 election. It was the FBI’s involvement in Russiagate which prompted this particular audit. The final report was completed a year ago but Merrick Garland was terrified to turn it loose.

FBI admits illegal spying

An audit report completed a year ago finally saw the light of day, proving that the FBI “has misused a powerful digital surveillance tool.

As revealed by Washington Post they broke the law “more than 278,000 times, including against crime victims, January 6 riot suspects, people arrested at protests after the police killing of George Floyd in 2020 and — in one case — 19,000 donors to a congressional candidate.

After Robert Mueller’s witch hunt into Donald Trump’s alleged collusion with Russia came up empty, Congress went digging into the origins of Crossfire Hurricane. John Durham’s Special Counsel investigation was a secondary effort after toothless DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz uncovered a whole bunch of irregularities pointing to misuse of the Section 702 Database and the FISA Court.

The DOJ was forced to conduct an internal audit. It found that the FBI agents were using the powerful and highly restricted database like Google Search. That’s a no-no. Everyone has been accusing them of doing it for years and they’ve been denying it for just as long. When the audit report came back, they scrambled frantically to clean up the mess.

Now that they think they have that mess all mopped up, they’re working real hard to get the controversial spy tools renewed. It’s already an uphill battle against bipartisan opposition who’s basically inclined to scrap the whole project. They’re terrified of it because it’s been repeatedly abused in high profile ways.

It’s okay, Christopher Wray calmly soothes. We fixed it and it’s totally safe now. You can trust us. Really you can. To the FBI the whole problem turned out to be “a misunderstanding between its employees and Justice Department lawyers about how to properly use” the powerful database.

NSA prize jewels

Congress has the NSA by their jewels. Created in the wake of September 11, 2001, the database “is seen by U.S. officials as one of the prize jewels of the national security apparatus.” That’s because once your emails and phone calls get hauled into the net, accidentally or otherwise, they’re all in there for good.

The primary purpose is to target foreign intelligence or terrorism information. In the real world, anyone who knows a foreigner is a fair target. The FBI really doesn’t want to give it up.

The recently unsealed memo was written by Judge Rudolph Contreras of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. They were really cheesed off that Kevin Clinesmith literally forged evidence to deceive them into renewing the wiretap against Carter Page in the Russiagate operation.

It seems that the FBI lied to the FISA court more often than they told the truth. The audit ordered by the Court found “nearly 300,000 abuses logged between 2020 and early 2021.

Nonetheless, “compliance problems with the querying of Section 702 information have proven to be persistent and widespread. If they are not substantially mitigated by these recent measures, it may become necessary to consider other responses, such as substantially limiting the number of FBI personnel with access to unminimized Section 702 information.

Jim Jordan issued a statement after he saw the report. FBI Director Christopher A. Wray
told us we can sleep well at night because of the FBI’s so-called FISA reforms. But it just keeps getting worse.

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