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

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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