FBI Caught Again Improperly Using Spy Powers – This Time on US Senator and Other Officials

A Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court opinion released on Friday reveals that the FBI improperly conducted intelligence queries on a U.S. senator, a state senator and a state judge.
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act allows federal government agencies to conduct targeted surveillance of non-U.S. citizens located abroad using intelligence databases.
“When U.S. citizens are flagged as part of these investigations, the FBI takes over the process of querying them for