![]() ![]() ![]() In 2019, the FBI unjustifiably searched the database for information on 16,000 people “even though only seven of them had connections to an investigation,” the New York Times reported. Even if you merely volunteered for the FBI “Citizens Academy” program, the FBI may have illegally tracked all your online activity. If you sought to report a crime to the FBI, an FBI agent may have illegally surveilled your email. The FBI conducted warrantless searches of the data trove for “domestic terrorism,” “public corruption and bribery,” “health care fraud,” and other targets - including people who notified the FBI of crimes and even repairmen entering FBI offices. In April, the FISA court revealed that the FBI surveillance crime wave continues. After the FBI promised to repent, the FISA court to permitted FBI agents to continue rummaging in NSA troves. In 2018, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) court slammed the FBI for abusing that database with warrantless searches that violated Americans’ rights. The FBI, for its part, is permitted to rummage through the seized data under strict restrictions. (RELATED: NSA Responds To Tucker Carlson, Claims He ‘Has Never Been An Intelligence Target’) The NSA is able to snare and stockpile many orders of magnitude times more information than did East Germany’s Stasi secret police, one of the most odious agencies of the post-war era. The NSA possesses a “repository capable of taking in 20 billion ‘record events’ daily and making them available to NSA analysts within 60 minutes,” the New York Times reported. The Carlson controversy cannot be understood outside the context of perennial NSA abuses. When did the NSA become as pure as Snow White? Do pundits presume that there is a 24-hour statute of limitation for recalling any previously-disclosed NSA crimes and abuses? CNN senior correspondent Oliver Darcy ridiculed Carlson for effectively claiming that “I’m not a crazy person overstating a case!” Carlson sought “to sow distrust, which is so anti-American,” declared MSNBC analyst Andrew Weissman, formerly the chief prosecutor for Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s charge that the National Security Agency illegally spied on him and leaked his emails is enraging prominent liberals. ![]()
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