Sen. Lee on egregious illegal Gov spying on Americans, Zero time FBI have obtained a court order

On 12/5/2023, Senator Lee questioned FBI Director Chris Wray. Sen. Lee Torches “Disgraceful” Illegal Government Spying on Americans

Sen. Lee Torches “Disgraceful” Illegal Government Spying on Americans

FBI ran queries: father havin affair cheating on mother

FBI ran queries: potential tenant

FBI ran the queries: political

no one knows when they’re being surveilled

evidence of a crime only queries not have prevented the most egregious examples of the abuse that we’ve seen under Section 702

103 times requirement been triggered, zero time FBI have obtained a court order

no one knows when they’re being surveilled, your agency has made it unbelievable & I refuse to accept it

Sen. Lee on egregious illegal Gov spying on Americans, Zero time FBI have obtained a court order

Key Points

On 12/5/2023, Senator Lee questioned FBI Director Chris Wray

• Lee Torches “Disgraceful” Illegal Government Spying on Americans

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• Lee Torches “Disgraceful” Illegal Government Spying on Americans

FBI ran queries: father havin affair cheating on mother

FBI ran queries: potential tenant

FBI ran the queries: political

no one knows when they’re being surveilled

evidence of a crime only queries not have prevented the most egregious examples of the abuse that we’ve seen under Section 702

103 times requirement been triggered, zero time FBI have obtained a court order

no one knows when they’re being surveilled, your agency has made it unbelievable & I refuse to accept it

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• Lee on egregious illegal Gov spying on Americans, Zero time FBI have obtained a court order

Transcript Highlights

Transcribed from the video audio:

• After this analyst at the FBI had a conversation with his own mother and his mother expressed suspicions about his father having an affair, cheating on her, having an affair with another woman
• And so as a result of that, they looked into it and this particular analyst admitted that he ran the queries because of this tip from his mother that his dad was having an affair
• I’m not sure that I can recall the specific instance that you’re talking about
• For instance, from 2022 in which two analysts conducted queries seeking information about a person who was a potential tenant of a rental property owned by one of the analysts, seeking information about two individuals that the analyst himself had met through an online dating service
• Were the FBI employees who conducted those two illegal searches, were they terminated
• The FISA court disclosed two particularly egregious searches from 2022
• In June of 2022, an analyst conducted four queries of 702 information using the last names of a US senator and of a state senator without further limitation
• On October 25th, 2022, a staff’s operation specialist ran a query using the social security number of a state judge who had, quote, complained to FBI about alleged civil rights violations perpetrated by a municipal chief of police, close quote
• Were the FBI employees who conducted those illegal searches terminated or did they have their security clearances stripped
• Again, I don’t know that I can speak to specific instances, but what I can tell you, and I guess it’s important to this exchange, is that all of the instances you just listed off all involve conduct that occurred before the reforms that we put in place