The Department of Justice Inspector General admitted the FBI had conducted 3.4 million warrantless backdoor searches, and a million were in error. During the ‘Fixing FISA’ hearing this week, Mr. Gaetz interviewed Mr. Horowitz about the continuing shortcomings of FISA. Mr. Horowitz couldn’t give a good answer.
Under FISA Section 702, intel agencies have the authority to conduct targeted surveillance on non-US individuals outside the country. However, agents are misusing their power. A stunning 3.4 million searches of Americans took place in 2021 without warrants.
“I want to get into the 3.4 million backdoor searches that the ranking member pointed out in his opening statement. Mr. Inspector General. How should the public think about those?” asked Gaetz.
“Well, I think what we’ve seen in the various public reports, and I’m limited in what I can say about what’s public, which I think is one of the issues, by the way, that’s worth talking about, is transparency here,” said General Michael Horowitz.
“Um, it’s obviously very concerning that there’s that volume of searches and particularly concerning the error rate that was reported on in the last two years in the public reporting,” said Horwitz.
The error rate is 30% or over 1,000,000 searches.
More than 10,000 government workers can conduct backdoor surveillance on Americans.
Some Republicans have objected to reauthorizing FISA, but not enough. It operates outside the Constitution.
Earlier this year, Mr. Gaetz talked about abolishing agencies that don’t come “to heel.”
BREAKING: DOJ Inspector General ADMITS that the FBI has done 3.4 million warrantless “backdoor searches!”
Over a MILLION of which were in error. pic.twitter.com/t9VcVp4iYx
— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) April 27, 2023
Wait just a damn minute! FISA is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the secret unaccountable FISA Court was never supposed to issue spy warrants against US citizens. And if a US citizen was involved in a foreign national they were spying on those doing the surveillance were supposed to turn their information over to the FBI if they felt… Read more »
FISA was a bad idea from the beginning. No Free Nation should have Secret Courts. The Real Problem is that the whole Bill of Rights is under Assault. The 1st and 2nd Amendments are under a total Assault by Government. The 4th Amendment is under Assault. No Federal Agency should be allowed to get a Warrant without the Approval of… Read more »
1 million in “error”…Gimme a break, no agency could be that stupid. There is more to this than ‘meets the eye’…or are they really that stupid. Either way it is a sad revelation of their ‘intelligence’…
Danger Joe!!! Danger!!! The truth is coming out!!! What are we going to do?
Joe? Joe? are you awake Joe? There is DANGER Joe!