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Remember FBI Director Wray’s response to the Durham report was that everything had already been fixed.
Nothing has actually been fixed.
The FBI improperly used surveillance powers to conduct searches for information on a U.S. senator, a state lawmaker and a state judge, according to court records released Friday as part of a public records request.
The surveillance court outlined three examples of instances where FBI personnel conducted searches of “sensitive query terms,” like those of U.S. public officials or candidates, without first seeking approval from the FBI’s deputy director.
“In June 2022, an analyst conducted four queries of Section 702 information using the last names of a U.S. Senator and a state senator, without further limitation,” the opinion states.
While the two were believed to be targets of “a specific foreign intelligence service,” the National Security Division at the Department of Justice determined the FBI did not meet the needed standard for running such a query.
And in October of that year, “a Staff Operations Specialist ran a query using the Social Security number of a state judge who “had complained to [the] FBI about alleged civil right violations perpetrated by a municipal chief of police.”
Analysts are able to use their own initiative to target a Senator. That says it all. What was supposed to be a secure and closely supervised tool for going after foreign enemies continues to be used to surveil domestic political opponents. Under conditions where these agencies are heavily politicized, how hard would it be for a political party to gain access to such materials? I assume that it’s happened more than once already.
There’s a long secret history here and we only know some of the more recent phenomena involving Trump and Russiagate, but FISA abuses long predate Trump. We know, for example, that members of Congress were targeted around the debate over the Iran Deal. There’s been no reckoning over that, let alone over the mass FISA abuses toward the end of the Biden administration.
The Durham report amounted to nearly nothing, the tiny tip of a giant iceberg. And the iceberg keeps on growing.
Right wing fruit cakes whine every time one of their clandestine troublemakers is detected and investigated. Just like their criminal thoughts should get a pass.
No one is above the law.
Ugly Sid – If you want shining examples of ‘whining’, you really need to go view/listen to what the ‘left-wing fruit cakes’ are saying during the recent, recorded hearings that are going on in the US House committee hearings lately.
I especially recommend the House Judiciary Committee hearings on censorship.
The hearing on censorship that was marked by Leftist instistance that RFK jr, not be heard?
The Democrats™ have contended with the fact that lower case d democracy is an impediment requiring Constitutional “workarounds”, or the ignorant rubes might start thinking their opinions would matter instead of their obedience.
I was sarcastic.
Sid is a brainwashed libTARD.
“criminal thoughts”?? Go FK yourself socialist/Nazi/Libtard scumbag!
I got that. It was funny.
Thank you, Jeff.
Heavy TV viewers can’t distinguish serious from comedic without canned laughter.
It’s like their medulla oblongata is on the fritz and they have to be reminded to breath in and out every twenty seconds.
The FBI should certainly have been using FISA on Ron Johnson, a hostile foreign intelligence asset if ever there has been one in the Senate.
Hats off in your threat recognition. Johnson’s been hiding inside the US his whole life. But you weren’t fooled for a minute.
There may be more sleeper cell pockets of patriots prowling in the shadows.
Thanks to cellphone communication and remote activation, our NSA is able to prepare a nasty surprise for these troublemakers.
Would you please expand upon Senator Johnson’s foreign sponsor.
Those with authority will surely find a way to abuse it to justify their cause.
Keeping themselves in position to perpetually abuse authority is their cause.
Work is for suckers.