FBI misused surveillance data, spied on its own, FISA ruling finds

Re:FBI misused surveillance data, spied on its own, FISA rul... by voxic11 on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @12:27PM (#21204749)

> In June 2013, a copy of a top-secret warrant, issued by the court on April 25, 2013, was leaked to London's The Guardian newspaper by NSA contractor Edward Snowden. That warrant orders Verizon Business Network Services to provide a daily feed to the NSA containing "telephony metadata" – comprehensive call detail records, including location data – about all calls in its system, including those that occur "wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls".

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Re:FBI misused surveillance data, spied on its own, FISA rul... by jonnybgood on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @01:58PM (#21205917)

This doesn’t answer my question. The question pertains to the FISA court’s rubber stamp nature.

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Re:FBI misused surveillance data, spied on its own, FISA rul... by mike00632 on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @03:23PM (#21206916)

This answers your question because it's a request that should have been rejected by the explicit rules upon which the FISA court ostensibly operates. The FISA court approved it even though any fair minded person could tell that dragnet surveillance wholly within the United States is not within what the courts are only supposed to approve: specific communications between specific individuals of which at least one is outside of the United States.

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