Thu May 25, 2023 – 3:06 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) improperly accessed a federal foreign intelligence database more than 278,000 times over the past several years, including to collect information on American citizens, according to a ruling by Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) Judge Rudolph Contreras.
The Washington Post reports that the ruling, released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), concerns the federal Section 702 database of communications of foreign nationals surveilled by the federal government, which is supposed to be accessible only for purposes of foreign intelligence gathering.
However, Contreras found that the FBI “frequently violated” the legal standard governing the database while accessing it during investigation of crimes between 2016 and 2020, despite having “no reasonable basis to expect they would return foreign intelligence or evidence of crime.”
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