In my recent testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, I warned that, if Congress reauthorized Section 702 without major changes, we have “become a nation of chumps.”…
Wait, WHAT? – DOJ Inspector General Reveals More than 10,000 Federal Employees Have Access to NSA Database for Surveillance Inquiries…
Approximately 30% of those 3.4 million search queries were outside the rules and regulations that govern warrantless searches, what the politically correct government calls “non-compliant searches.”…
IG Horowitz Exposes FBI’s Continued Abuse of American’s Civil Liberties Through Their Flippant Use of FISA…
by TechnFog at The Reactionary Today, DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz issued a new report on the FBI’s “Execution of its Woods Procedures for Applications Filed with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Relating to US Persons.” It’s damning for the FBI. Before we get to the Inspector General’s findings, a bit of background is important. The […]
Declassified Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Opinion Shows More FBI Domestic Abuses…
The FBI Continued to Spy on Americans Without a Warrant…
Senate Passes Bill Reauthorizing FISA Surveillance…
The Senate on Thursday passed an act that reauthorizes the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The act lets government investigators apply to a secretive court to spy on Americans. The program has widespread problems, the Department of Justice’s inspector general found earlier this year. The House passed the bill in March. Attorney General William Barr […]
FLASHBACK – Comey: ‘We Did Not Spy—We Just Observed and Reported Secretly Without the Subject’s Knowledge or Consent’…
After Attorney General Barr suggested that the FBI and other agencies spied on Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, former FBI director James Comey fired back. “We did not spy,” he told reporters as he stretched for his morning yoga class. “We just observed and reported secretly without the subject’s knowledge or consent.” “See, I’ve never considered […]
Jordan Puts FBI Director Christopher Wray In Hot Seat, All 29 FISA Warrants IG Horowitz Audited Had ‘Serious Deficiencies’…
Ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan sent a letter to Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz last week requesting a slew of FBI documents pertaining to Horowitz’s recent audit of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance warrants to spy on Americans. The March memorandum submitted by Horowitz of his agency’s highly classified audit of […]
Why Metadata Matters…
Metadata is often described as everything except the content of your communications. You can think of metadata as the digital equivalent of an envelope. Just like an envelope contains information about the sender, receiver, and destination of a message, so does metadata. Metadata is information about the digital communications you send and receive. Some examples […]
Court Filing: Obama Holdover Heading Office Under Investigation for ‘Illegally Leaked’ Classified Document…
The Obama holdover heading the Pentagon office reportedly under investigation by the U.S. attorney who is conducting the criminal probe of the Trump–Russia investigation was accused of leaking a classified document, in a recent court filing for retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. The connection hasn’t been previously reported. According to a Nov. 21 report by […]
DOJ Watchdog Expected to Criticize FBI for Excluding ‘Game Changer’ Material from FISA Application…
The Justice Department watchdog is expected to criticize the FBI for leaving out potentially exculpatory evidence related to George Papadopoulos in a wiretap application targeting another former Trump campaign adviser. In a draft of his forthcoming report, Inspector General Michael Horowitz said the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act applications related to the surveillance of Carter Page […]