{"id":11996,"date":"2023-05-20T03:16:57","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T08:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=11996"},"modified":"2023-05-20T03:17:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T08:17:06","slug":"fbi-misused-intelligence-database-in-278000-searches-court-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=11996","title":{"rendered":"FBI misused intelligence database in 278,000 searches, court says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO, May 19 (Reuters) &#8211; A U.S. court found that the FBI improperly searched for information in a U.S. database of foreign intelligence 278,000 times over several years, including on Americans suspected of crimes, according to a ruling released on Friday.<br>The decision by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court was released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).<br>The searches occurred in the course of U.S. crime investigations including the Jan. 6 Capitol riots and protests after the 2020 killing of George Floyd, the court said.<br>The intelligence database stores digital and other information on individuals. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act allows the FBI to search without a warrant communications of foreigners abroad including their conversations with Americans.<br>The court ruling found the FBI violated rules around the use of the database, created under Section 702 of the FISA Act with its searches.<br>Specifically, the court found that searches as part of probes into crimes between 2016 and 2020 violated the rules because there was &#8220;no reasonable basis to expect they would return foreign intelligence or evidence of crime&#8221;, although the FBI believed this was &#8220;reasonably likely,&#8221; the decision said.<br>The revelations came as U.S. President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration is trying to garner congressional support to keep surveillance powers under Section 702, which is set to expire later this year.<br>The ODNI said the FBI tightened its procedures in mid-2021 and 2022. &#8220;As a result, these compliance incidents do not reflect FBI\u2019s querying practices subsequent to the full deployment of the remedial measures,&#8221; the office said.<br>An FBI spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<br>Reporting by Zeba Siddiqui in San Francisco and Christopher Bing in Washington; Editing by Cynthia Osterman<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/fbi-misused-intelligence-database-278000-searches-court-says-2023-05-19\/\">Reuters.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO, May 19 (Reuters) &#8211; A U.S. court found that the FBI improperly searched for information in a U.S. database of foreign intelligence 278,000 times over several years, including on Americans suspected of crimes, according to a ruling released on Friday.The decision by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court was released by the Office of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[2164,1723,419,5307],"class_list":["post-11996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-abuse","tag-court","tag-fbi","tag-ruling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11998,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11996\/revisions\/11998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}