FBI supervisor warned Comey in 2014 that warrantless surveillance program was ineffective
By John Solomon and Alison Spann - 03/15/18 08:01 PM EDT
An official who supervised the FBI’s Section 215 warrantless phone surveillance program revealed by Edward Snowden in 2013 says he warned then-Director James Comey it was woefully ineffective in catching terrorists and needed to be modified.
Retired Special Agent Bassem Youssef, the chief of the FBI’s Communications Analysis Unit, said in an exclusive interview with The Hill that no action was taken by Comey in response to the concerns he raised.
He said his efforts were prompted by an audit his team conducted showing the program had searched through thousands of Americans' records but had helped only disrupt one possible terrorist plot over more than a decade.
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