On Friday, an explosive ruling from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) was released. It proved what we’ve been saying for years: The FBI, and the intelligence community more broadly, can’t be trusted not to spy on Americans. As the ruling notes, the FBI abused its foreign intelligence authorities, during the course of a single […]
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The Sky Did Not Fall
March 15 marks three years since, amid the shrill protests of the intelligence community, Congress allowed key sections of the mass-surveillance-enabling PATRIOT Act to lapse. This week, we’re again hearing shrill cries of the intelligence community and their lackeys on the Hill, declaring that if Congress allows mass-surveillance-enabling Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act […]