FBI Bypasses Denial In FISA Court By Writing Its Own Search Warrants

Even the sparse amount of judicial oversight on the FBI on issues of national security can be easily bypassed or ignored completely.
Police State USA
Jan. 01, 2015

The FBI has proven that it can legally dodge even the sparse amount of judicial checks and balances on its ability to search the records of Americans.  After being denied twice in FISA Court for an order to collect records from an individual, a secret report reveals that the Bureau subsequently wrote its own order and went through with the surveillance, regardless of the court rejection.

This revelation was found in a recently declassified document, titled “A Review of the FBI’s Use of Section 215 Orders for Business Records in 2006″ (PDF).  It was written in 2008 by the DOJ Office of the Inspector General but not declassified until December 2014.

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