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OPINION on THE HILL: How the FBI uses laws to spy on foreign terrorists to spy on you

6/10/2022

 
Opinion piece by PPSA Senior Policy Advisor, Bob Goodlatte, on The Hill. 

The FBI searches through databases of foreign communications in a program that Congress created specifically to catch foreign terrorists and spies. But the FBI uses this same program to glean private information about American citizens and our communications. These so-called “U.S. person queries” are transforming one of the most powerful and invasive surveillance authorities — Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — into a means for FBI agents to spy on Americans without a warrant, gutting the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution.
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