Newly Released Eric Holder Memo: Feds Can Use FISA to Spy on Journalists

[mystery-ak]

Newly Released Eric Holder Memo: Feds Can Use FISA to Spy on Journalists
And the guidelines for spying on journalists may be even looser under Trump.

Joe Setyon|Sep. 18, 2018 11:55 am

The federal government can use the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to spy on journalists. So said a pair of 2015 Justice Department memos, including one from then–Attorney General Eric Holder.

FISA is controversial in itself. The act is supposed to be used to justify surveillance on foreign targets. But as Reason's Scott Shackford has explained, intelligence agencies often use it to secretly spy on American citizens, sometimes without a warrant.

According to the newly released documents, obtaining permission to surveil members of the media is not easy, but it is possible. In one memo, dated March 19, Holder says FISA applications against journalists must be approved by the attorney general and deputy attorney general prior to being brought before a FISA court.

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[Wingnut]

Everyone knew Holder was a shifty-eyed, four flushing, weasel pansy his 1st week in office.  But I might give him a pass when it comes to spying on the enemy of the people

[Bigun]

Everyone knew Holder was a shifty-eyed, four flushing, weasel pansy his 1st week in office.  But I might give him a pass when it comes to spying on the enemy of the people

The only thing I would give that SOB a pass to is the Gallows at Leavenworth!