The recommendation came in a report from a three-member Democratic majority of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Board, an independent agency within the executive branch, and was made despite the opposition of Biden administration officials who warn that such a requirement could snarl fast-moving terrorism and espionage investigations and weaken national security as a result.
The report comes as a White House push to secure the reauthorization of the program known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is encountering major bipartisan opposition in Congress and during a spate of revelations that FBI employees have periodically mishandled access to a repository of intelligence gathered under the law, violations that have spurred outrage from civil liberties advocates.
a spate of revelations that FBI employees have periodically mishandled access to a repository of intelligence gathered
I am shocked, I tell you.
Federal spy agencies should be required to get court approval before reviewing the communications of U.S. citizens collected through a secretive foreign surveillance program, a sharply divided privacy oversight board recommended on Thursday.
This is exactly what they already promised was happening when it came out that this shit existed.
It was built to spy on us, first and foremost. It was to stop minorities and anyone who’s not a cum-guzzling capitalist stan from gaining any power, whether by money, word of mouth, sheer numbers, anything from threatening the feudal-state fascist prison they envision enriching themselves with.
It’s illegal to “collect” this data on US persons in the first place. Like fundamentally constitutionally a problem.
The US government has paid a lawyer to say that it is not collected (even though it’s sitting on their servers) because it is not in human readable format. But they can change that and grab your data at any point. You become a protester or somebody who is politically disadvantageous? Well they can reach into their history of " not collected" data that they have… problem solved! Oh, a family member was killed by a murderer? Sorry we can’t look in the database of information that we have to find out who it was. That’s a secret…
Er… doesn’t the FISA court already exist? I mean, it’s just a rubber-stamp court that is barely even a speed bump on the road of wiretapping, but it already exists. Just use it.
The government will always want more. The reason you have a judicial oversight is to slow it down. If the judges actually do more that just rubber stamp everything I don’t know but even forcing the rubber stamping is a good idea. Justice can’t happen in secrecy.
I’d like to remind everyone that there’s a big difference between should and will.
