Just declassified: US senator caught up in Section 702 FBI surveillance dragnet
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Just declassified: US senator caught up in Section 702 FBI surveillance dragnet::Still, judge finds 'reason to believe' Feds are getting better at not abusing snooping powers
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No mention of who they actually are and why the FBI was surveiling them?
It was collected as part of a dragnet - they weren’t surveilling them specifically. The FBI just attempts to illegally surveil US citizens, breaking the Fourth Amendment.
This time, it just happened to hit a senator
Although the one using the SSN looks like a flat out abuse of power.
It looks like at least one of the other ones was trying to protect the senator, not actually target them.
Every dragnet is a flat out abuse of power, but you’re right the SSN went farther