FBI officials wrongfully searched a foreign-intelligence database for information about an unidentified U.S. senator, state senator, and a state judge, according to the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
The court said an FBI analyst conducted four searches of the surveillance database in June 2022 using the U.S. and state senators’ last names. While the analyst “had information that a specific foreign intelligence service was targeting” the politicians,
a review by the Justice Department determined the searches were overly broad, a court filing reads. A state judge’s security number was also improperly used, the court alleges, in a database search in October 2022 after the judge “had complained to FBI about alleged civil rights violations perpetrated by a municipal chief of police.” Under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the National Security Agency can collect data from U.S.
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