by Sundance
Office of Inspector General Michael Horowitz testified yesterday that more than 3.4 million search queries into the NSA database took place between Dec. 1st, 2020 and Nov. 30th, 2021, by government officials and/or contractors working on behalf of the federal government. These search queries were based on authorizations related to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
Approximately 30% of those 3.4 million search queries were outside the rules and regulations that govern warrantless searches, what the politically correct government calls “non-compliant searches.”
Additionally, IG Horowitz also admitted that somewhere north of 10,000 federal employees have access to conduct these searches of the NSA database; a database which contains the electronic data of every single American, including emails, text messages, social media posts, instant messages, direct messages, phone calls, geolocation identifiers, purchases by electronic funds, banking records and any keystroke any American person puts into any electronic device for any reason.
If we were in a functioning system of government everything would be stopped right now, and no conversation would be taking place that was not about this issue. This is the total and complete surveillance state being talked about as if we were discussing what’s for dinner.
This is beyond jaw-dropping.
Context: In 2018 CTH revealed through research of their own documents that FBI and DOJ/FBI contractors had done more than 1,000 illegal searches using the NSA database, targeting Republican primary candidates from November 2015 through May 2016. These stunning admissions were from the DOJ’s own reporting to the FISA court.
Few were paying attention.
Although the number of the illegal search queries were redacted, we know the number is four digits from the size of the redacted text. More than 1,000 and less than 9,999.
FAST FORWARD TO 2023 – Yesterday, IG Horowitz outlined that more than 1.1 million illegal searches of this database were conducted in 2021 during the first year of the Joe Biden administration.
Additionally, and perhaps more consequentially, to give scope to how the process of total domestic surveillance has expanded, Horowitz now admits in 2021 the number of federal government employees with access to this total metadata collection system now exceeds 10,000 people. STOP THE PRESSES!
Yes, congress is talking about this ‘as if’ there is some level of importance. However, the basic questions are not being asked, or have perhaps just become so accepted that legislators have become oblivious to the insanity of it. Beyond the blood boiling questions about searching the NSA database, questions like:
In order for these search queries to take place, there has to be a housing facility to capture it.
Where is all of this electronic data being stored?
Why is all of this electronic data being stored?
Who is in control of this all-encompassing electronic data collection?
Forget the searches for a moment, what act of congress authorized the capture of this private data collection? Essentially electronic intercepts of communication systems that flow throughout our life.
The background context here is congress debating the renewal of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the power of the DOJ and FBI to intercept American citizen communication and electronic data via the “702” authorizations, that permit the NSA database to be searched and queried.
Whats the big deal…Uh guys? Her name is Wang they are just family photos or somethin.
If there weren’t wide access to the database for surveillance inquiries, the database would be useless.
No search warrants ever hear of the Constitution?
The origin of this right is from the 4th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to protect people from unlawful government searches and seizures.
Yet, when it is abused (and the Democrats have exhibited a willingness to abuse all forms of power), it is a threat to personal privacy and freedom. I know you leftists see this threat because you are constantly falsely accusing the right of committing it.
This is exactly what was predicted when the NSA’s data center was being built in Utah, ten years
ago.
Lois Lerner, then head of the IRS’ Exempt Organizations division testified to Congress that even having a “door hanger,” that showed the household backed the Republican for president would provide a “legitimate basis” for additional IRS scrutiny.
But her emails were where the real evidence came in.
She was going back and forth with the FBI and DOJ about how to “get” tax exempt conservative organizations that seemingly had been doing everything right.
One email informed her she could ILLEGALLY use NSA data collected WITHOUT a WARRANT to find some dirt on these targets.
THEN, she would have to create a parallel investigation so as to have a legal route to go after these organizations and individuals.
It’s all part of the totalitarian police state the Democrats are constructing. Hitler and Stalin would be jealous.