A Republican congressman accused the FBI of searching an intelligence database for his name multiple times in what he called an “egregious” violation of his privacy
A Republican congressman on Thursday accused the FBI of searching an intelligence database for his name multiple times in what he called an “egregious” violation of his privacy. Rep. Darin LaHood of Illinois confronted FBI Director Christopher Wray about the alleged incident, which he said occurred about three years ago, during an annual House Intelligence Committee hearing on national security threats.
The program in question is a 2008 revision to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that allows US intelligence agencies to collect the phone calls and text messages of foreign targets overseas from US telecommunications providers without a warrant – even if means sweeping up the communications of Americans in touch with those foreign targets.
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