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• @dnvolz Dustin Volz on x

  BREAKING NEWS: The FBI's use of a controversial foreign surveillance tool violated Americans' constitutional privacy rights, FISA Court finds, dealing a rare rebuke to U.S. spying activities. https://www.wsj.com/...

• @snowden Edward Snowden on x

  Wow: The @FBI is running a warrantless internet surveillance program so flagrantly unconstitutional that even the secret, rubber-stamp “court” that approved 99.967% (!) of surveillance requests over 33 years (!!) felt they couldn't turn a blind eye. https://www.wsj.com/... https:…

• @roncoleman Ron Coleman on x

  “A secretive U.S. court ruled last year that the FBI violated the constitutional privacy rights of U.S. citizens through its use of a surveillance tool meant to target foreigners” https://www.wsj.com/...

• @jesselynradack @jesselynradack on x

  Can we pls pardon @Snowden now?? https://www.wsj.com/...

• @imeluny Melanie Ensign on x

  An important ruling. Data collected for a specific purpose cannot automatically be used for another. https://twitter.com/...

• @dnvolz Dustin Volz on x

  The FBI in March 2017 searched for info related to over 70,000 digital identifiers, like emails. The large-batch query was related to a security review of people with access to FBI buildings— meaning FBI was hunting for data linked to its own employees. https://www.wsj.com/... ht…

• @miekeeoyang Mieke Eoyang on x

  This is exactly what HPSCI was promised would NOT happen if we gave them this tool. We paid a lot of attention to controls at NSA. I can't speak to what happened on the FBI side...But apparently it wasn't good. https://twitter.com/...

• @ggreenwald Glenn Greenwald on x

  The Brave Men & Women of FBI Who Keep Us Safe systematically broke the law and violated the Constitutional rights of tens of thousands of Americans - tens of thousands - by illegally exploiting the spying technology that @Snowden bravely exposed. Hire more of them, MSNBC & CNN! h…

• @jeff_kaye Jeffrey Kaye on x

  We're not talking a few mistakes. Article cites “tens of thousands” of instances of improper use of raw intel to snoop on Americans. This adds to recent finding FBI hid its collaboration w/CIA on rendition-torture-detention program ("black sites", RDI, “enhanced interrogation). h…

• @danielschuman Daniel Schuman on x

  Today's news of the FBI's unlawful use of a foreign surveillance tool isn't just about the FBI's failures to respect people's rights, it's also about the House Intelligence Committee's failure to look out for all of us https://twitter.com/...

• @ronwyden Ron Wyden on x

  Last year, when Congress reauthorized Section 702 of FISA, it accepted the FBI's outright refusal to account for all its warrantless backdoor searches of Americans. https://twitter.com/...

• @justinamash Justin Amash on x

  This is FISA 702. In 2018, I led the charge against the establishment to stop this program. President Trump attacked my efforts and signed it into law, with the support of Ryan, Pelosi, McCarthy, Nunes, and Schiff. It's an outrageous violation of our Constitution and our rights. …

• @w7voa Steve Herman on x

  The intelligence community today disclosed last year's ruling found @FBI pursuit of data about Americans ensnared in a warrantless internet-surveillance program intended to target foreign suspects may have violated the law authorizing the program, as well as the Fourth Amendment.…

• @weinbergersa Sharon Weinberger on x

  “the court ruling reveals improper use of the database by individuals. In one case, an FBI contractor ran a query of an intelligence database—searching information on himself, other FBI personnel and his relatives” https://twitter.com/...

• @bradmossesq Bradley P. Moss on x

  So .... not a rubber stamp after all, huh? https://twitter.com/...