The court rubber-stamped FBI requests that bizarrely claimed that the telephone records of all Americans were "Relevant" to a terrorism investigation under the Patriot Act, thereby enabling National Security Administration data seizures later denounced by a federal judge as "Almost Orwellian." In 2017, a FISA court decision included a 10-page litany of FBI violations, which "Ranged from illegally sharing raw intelligence with unauthorized third parties to accessing intercepted attorney-client privileged communications without proper oversight."
The NSA collects vast amounts of information as part of that surveillance and then permits the FBI to sift through its troves.
Three years later, FISA chief judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly proposed requiring FBI agents to swear to the accuracy of the information they presented; that never happened because it could have "Slowed such investigations drastically," the Washington Post reported.
In April 2021, the FISA court reported that 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.
If you sought to report a crime to the FBI, an FBI agent may have illegally surveilled your email.
The FBI's perpetual crime wave created a hornet's nest on Capitol Hill.
House Republicans, led by House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan, pushed a bipartisan reform of 702 named he Protect Liberty and End Warrantless Surveillance Act, which would have required the FBI to get a warrant from a federal judge for most of its queries to the NSA database.
https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/the-never-ending-federal-surveillance-crime-spree/
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