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The FBI almost NEVER follows its own procedures in any of its endeavors. Informants are utilized without much documentation or oversight. The FISA violations are just the tip of this bureaucratic iceberg. The original restrictions were placed on the utilization of the FISA Courts because of their secrecy provisions and lack of ability to challenge the assertions being made. It is just all eyewash and a fig leaf for public consumption. Congress passed and created this monster and Constitutionally suspect Court but NEVER gets to review or enforce the provisions provided to balance the secrecy issues. A real Star Chamber operation.

Guess what? An examination of FBI wire tap applications would probably reveal the same lack of documentation and the affidavits would be loaded with dubious assertions and sworn to facts that are suspect. Entire system is broken and full of corruption and obfuscation. FBI supervisors don't supervise and Congress does little or nothing to enforce compliance.

Americans really have no protection from arbitrary use of surveillance and other things that result in wholesale violations of our Constitutional rights. DOJ is just another bureaucratic, mediocre gov't agency of repression populated by aspiring politicians. Without wholesale reform and some serious prosecutions this will continue as standard operating procedure by most of the gov't's enforcement agencies. CIA reform is another can of worms.

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Matthew Jacobs's avatar

IMO...the fault is with the FISA Court Judges that have turned themselves into Rubber Stamps that the FBI abused

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