House Judiciary Hearing to Examine How US Govt “Weaponized” FISA against Americans

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House Judiciary Hearing to Examine How US Govt Weaponized FISA against Americans

The House Judiciary Committee hearing is planning to investigate how Section 702 law, designed to help combat terrorism, has been “weaponized against” the American people.

The House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing next week on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) ahead of the law’s reauthorization deadline in December.

The hearing notice details more about the Thursday hearing:

The hearing, “Fixing FISA: How a Law Designed to Protect Americans Has Been Weaponized Against Them,” will examine the FBI’s abuses of its Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authorities, discuss the FBI’s failures to implement meaningful reforms to prevent its abuses, and address the broad issue of warrantless mass surveillance on American citizens.

The hearing witnesses include:

Michael E. Horowitz, Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice
Sharon Bradford Franklin, Chair, U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
Beth A. Williams, Board Member, U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board

As Brietbart News reported:

A routine audit recently found that the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Office of National Director of Intelligence (ODNI) of Section 702 use found that FBI agents often had political overtones for their search queries of the FISA database.

This includes “the names of a local political party” to see if it had links to foreign intelligence. The Justice Department reportedly claimed that FBI personnel “misunderstood” the search procedures and that they were “subsequently reminded of how to correctly apply the query rules.”

Rep. Darin LaHood (R-IL), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, dramatically revealed that he was the unnamed lawmaker that was surveilled by the FBI. The FBI said that the surveillance was a defensive countermeasure to make sure the Illinois Republican was not the subject of a foreign influence operation.

Below is a video of LaHood testifying that the FBI surveilled him:

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Rep. Ben Cline (R-VA) and other lawmakers have pressed Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz over the FBI’s purchase of Americans’ geolocation data.

During a March hearing, Cline asked Horowitz if other parts of the Department of Justice (DOJ) are buying Americans’ private data, describing these reports as “disturbing.”

Reports have found that the FBI and other law enforcement agencies have purchased Americans’ private data, in what could be considered a run around constitutional protections against warrantless searches.

Cline then pressed Attorney General Merrick Garland about this controversy.

Cline asked Garland if he agreed with Horowitz that purchasing Americans’ private data should not have happened post-Carpenter v. United States. This landmark 2018 Supreme Court ruling held that the United States government needed a search warrant to track suspects for an extended period via cellphone carriers.

The attorney general said, “The Department [DOJ] has an internal investigation going on internally to find out which parts.”

“FBI Director Wray’s admission that the FBI secretly purchased Americans’ location data ‘derived from internet advertising’ is both shocking and further proof of the need for Congress to take immediate action to rein in mass surveillance,” Sean Vitka, of Demand Progress, an online privacy and digital rights group, said.

WATCH: Rand Paul Torches DHS Head: Your Practices Are “Like Something Out of Stalin’s Russia”

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