Audit: FBI Had ‘Insufficient Justification’ for January 6 Surveillance SearchesSean Moran 12 May 2023
An FBI audit found the agency had “insufficient justification” for two FISA searches relating to “January 6th Capitol Violence.”
The FBI’s Office of Internal Auditing (OIA) released a routine audit evaluating its compliance with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
The FBI audit analyzed audits of both FISA and Section 702 data. Section 702 is a law that allows intelligence agencies to collect communications of targeted foreigners. It also may lead to targeted surveillance of Americans’ private communications, which privacy advocates consider a run around the Fourth Amendment’s requirement for a warrant to search Americans’ communications.
The audit found 17 searches of the government’s FISA database had insufficient justification for the searches of Americans’ communications, which include:
Eight searches looking for connections in raw FISA collection
Two searches related to “January 6th Capitol violence”
One Afghan refugee vetting
One domestic terrorism matter
Among other issues
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