https://expose-news.com/2022/08/25/intelligence-agencies-reveal-which-side-theyre-on/
The 2022 annual transparency report by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (“ODNI”) reveals the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) has been surveilling millions of American citizens — without warrants or proper cause.
Between December 2020 and November 2021, the FBI scoured private emails, texts and other electronic communications of 3.4 million U.S. residents, without obtaining a single warrant. Between December 2019 and November 2020, just under 1.3 million Americans were surveilled in this manner.
There’s also been a sharp uptick in the number of times government officials asked for the identity of individuals surveilled to be revealed, a practice known as “unmasking.”
Supposedly, FBI agents were looking for signs of potential terrorist activity. They also sought to prevent hacking attacks. In the process, they violated the constitutional privacy rights of millions and considering the hacking attacks that have occurred anyway, this mass surveillance doesn’t seem to be achieving its stated aim.
Two attorneys and two journalists are suing former US Central Intelligence Agency (“CIA”) director Mike Pompeo in Spanish High Court for illegally surveilling them and copying private data from their electronic devices and passports while they were visiting Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy. The agency is also listed as a defendant, for purposes of forcing them to expunge all collected records.