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).
[OIG Testimony HERE]
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.
If the inspector general is now admitting the FISA laws have been so comprehensively corrupted such that 3.4 million searches by more than 10,000 federal employees and government contractors now have access, there is no way that any reasonably intelligent person should support such reauthorization. Even contemplating this request is absurd, beyond absurd.
The United States government is admitting to the public that a total and comprehensive surveillance state is currently in place, and 10,000 federal government agents have the authorization to monitor everything we do.
This is the admitted and current status of RIGHT NOW. Yet people are worried about possible ‘vaccination passports’ or ‘digital currencies’ or ‘social credit scores’ sometime in the future?
Have we totally lost connection to the reality of our current condition?
Can you see the insanity of it?…
… Or should we just ask, “what’s for dinner?”
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BREAKING: DOJ Inspector General ADMITS that the FBI has done 3.4 million warrantless “backdoor searches!”
Over a MILLION of which were in error. pic.twitter.com/t9VcVp4iYx
— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) April 27, 2023
Gosh I miss my civil rights.
“You don’t have to get a FISA court order?”
“No, not here, XKEYSCORE’s under 702 authority, which means no warrants”
“Ok, but – US targets – then you’d have to … get … the court order”
“You mean FISA? Yeah … they’re just a big-ass rubber stamp, dude”
Even Gaetz sounds like he’s swapping casserole recipes.
It’s not “unseemly”. It’s a Police State.
I am sure it has been said before, but …
This is due to outgoing US President Obama giving access.
Obama used W’s powers, Patriot Act for example, to kneecap Trump’s administration. This is not new to US presidents.
Republican Hoover tried to do this to FDR. I am not defending FDR. I am saying that this crap happened before and that no modern political party is innocent.
The outgoing president didn’t give anyone access that they didn’t secretly already have. He’s simply given credit by his owners when things go smoothly and will quickly become the scapegoat to blame if things go sour.
“no modern political party is innocent.”
Yes–all one of them are guilty.
EVERYONE was kneecapping Trump, and anyone who would work for him. Every agency (and bragging about Obama giving them classes on how to do it), his own branch of the Uniparty, every branch of gov’t, the Pentagon, the “media”, EVERYONE.
Don’t forget that it was Joe Bidet that created the draft in the ’90s that became the grotesquely misnamed ‘Patriot Act’ … but, you’re right, President Trump’s predecessor sure screwed US like an old dog … and did his best to ‘fundamentally change America’ — but folks that weren’t paying attention had no clue just what that ‘fundamental change’ was going to be …
Why are we just hearing the data from 18 months ago? How bad is it now?
Whatever, spy spy away, someday maybe they’ll grow up and learn to be more honest and how to actually talk to people and have a conversation, until then your phone is a party line and your TV watches YOU lol
Am paying for my own prosecution? WTF.
Yes. And you’re paying for your own persecution as well.
Like Soviet Beria said, “Show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime.”
LOL. All that “aide to Ukraine” that Zelensky funnelled to Bankman who funnellled it to the DNC. How much IC /FBI/DOD budget went to fund antifa? Aide to Israel who boats illegals into Europe?
STASI and KGB tactics
Guess how they’ll find those skeletons? 🔎
I think it’s time the Clinton, cartoons start getting back what they are dishing out, that fear of meeting their just rewart with Satan comes sooner than later.
No problems of “warts” here.
Here we go again wanting to love what was our country while at every opportunity the people in government elected, appointed or hired display in open public forums how much they despise average Americans.
They hate average citizens so much they have continually acted in contemptible ways to bankrupt us then kill us !
Yet somehow thangs to the MSM we are not expected to notice any of it as we are herded off a cliff
The amazing thing is that we built them…without our dollars they wojjld not be, and then they turn on us after we provided the dollars to make them as they are. The House needs to start defunding these organizations…if they have any backbone whatsoever! Enough talk…lets see some frickin action!
A bit silly, but I think they nailed it on the FIB guy portrayal. 😏
“They assigned me the cutest NSA agent”
This country is over folks. The communist left has full control of everything.
Even the optimistic Jim Kunstler is talking civil war.
I looked that up Paleocon and it was awesome! Clusterf*ck nation blog “on wars and wars” April 28, 2023.
Yes, you are right, the only recourse we have now is to use what we have left is the second amendment to RESIST the tyrannical actions of our employees and put them back into the places they belong, and if they don’t comply then RESIST with three basic metals. spent, copper, lead, and brass.
Our freedom must be protected by the citizens now with whatever force is necessary to stop these creeps. It seems as though when enough attrition of federal employees When they quit going home at night and their families realize the great risk they are taking doing illegal acts against WE the people of the United States of America MUST take back control of the system that has unlawfully taken our rights and freedoms by force. Our commissar and thief illegally stole an election, a voting machine company was complicit in helping steal an election that installed and criminal idiot and friend of Satan, into the highest office in the land. FOLKS IT IS NOW UP TO US TO TAKE BACK THE U.S.A. back from these criminals. I keep having a dream of the hangman at LEAVENWORTH having to do his job with many high-ranking seditionists, and traitors being in line one behind the other and a chaplain speaking to each one before stepping up to be next. I hope they repent of their sins, before hanging.
Folks we are headed to WAR with Russia, and China because these multiples of sedition ists are leading us down a huge path of deception and eventually elimination of our country as we know it. We better start sorting things out before we wind up with a three or four-front war, east, south, and west, and internal. Including some of our possessions. Everyone needs to buy or obtain copies of our Constitution and Bill of Rights. Read them often, and learn to shoot true. The next move is for the Gun Controllers to take by force of arms, our arms. You better use them or lose them. Believe me, It will be much better to use them and they loose theirs. As an old Army MP, I am glad I was trained well and understand how precious our rights and freedom are. The WAR is coming and will be on our shores very soon, Russia, China, Germany, and many others are really pissed off, Our Dollar is JUNK all over the world, If you don’t have gold or real silver get it NOW, Or buy lots of food and TP it will surely make good trading material if nothing else, Remember the food chain is being attacted and our fuel is under stress, all created by the PTB. the GRAY TERROR operations are already hitting Food processing plants, Slaughterhouses Wake up America. TAKE BACK WHAT IS YOURS!!!!!!!!!!
Found in the bin… 🙁
Color me “Not Shocked”! At all.
Have a great weekend.
Stay Frosty.
Obama’s army?
Besides ISIS?
Remember also the pickup teams available in all of those ‘non-assimilated’ refugee/illegal alien clusters. Money talks…especially when the food runs out…
I wonder how many of the 80,000 new IRS employees will have the same clearance?
Yuk!
They will have the guns.
I thought Congress was not gonna pay for the IRS new employees!!!
Someone please give me a rational reason why any of us patriots should remain civil?
We are dealing with a huge number of evil, unvarnished barbarians within the borders of the USA who have not only completely rejected our laws and our U.S. Constitution but have turned into filthy, immoral predators of any who hold solid views of morality.
Where is the “middle ground” on child genital mutilation or pedophile adults having sex with children?
the people who want to remain “civil” or think we can salvage this thing are delusional or in denial. No more evidence is needed to arrive at this conclusion. We hit evidence saturation years ago.
Yes, the left insists WE must remain civil by calling us names if we are not. MTG has been called many names because she mirrors the left in their attacks on others and in committee meetings she states the obvious and this is blasphemy to them. Its exactly the reason they HATE Trump. He is their nemesis since he uses their own tactics against them whereas the Uniparty GOPe simply bows and backs not wanting to create a ‘stir’. UGH. That horse of civility has already left the barn.
Why remain civil ? Well creepy Joe’sTown Joe said; “You don’t have F-16’s”
Plus All of this is God’s judgment on the evil empire that expelled Him from their darkness schools back in 1961. It’s way too late to fix it. This is spiritual and corrupt left & right politics can’t fix ANYTHING!
“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.”
Is this not potentially good news ???
Doesn’t this mean there are (more than) 10,000 who can possibly leak secrets that could cause the DS left to PANIC ???
You hope.
What’s the difference between this and Stalking???
like anything that is illegal for you, is entirely legal for the shitbags running government.
Doesn’t count for Dhimmicrats.
Don’t worry folks the RESTRICT act will work just fine. Nothing to see here! Whenever the government abuses its power, the best response to that is to give them even MORE powers! Looney Lindsey says everything will be fine, so I believe him. 🙄
The absolute end of freedom if the restrict act passes combined with digital dollars. 1776 time if all this takes place unless you can obey the WEF and be a good sheep.
YOU are under surveillance. Just accept it.
Now – flood the system with bullshit. Set empty honeypots.
My imagination runneth not over.
What would bore them unconscious? Someone wjo understands these functionaries please explain.
Astrological predictions?
Ideas for schools that work?
The Ten Commandments?
Burn it all! Been saying for some time now…the only way may be to….tear the whole damn system down! It’s corrupt at its core and those that own and operate it are of the same ilk….corrupt as hell at their core, evil in their intent, and traitorous in their hearts! With plenty standingbin the doorway waiting to take the spot of one we might take down. Nope, the system has tomcome down, thus bringing them down with it…all of them, because they depend on the system. Yes, we do to, and we live within it…as slaves and have become comfortable. It’s time things get uncomfortable and we ruin their organized, criminal, communist, nazi attempt to destroy us and take down America.
I now accept that the CIA/FBI’s 9/11 hijackers were sent precisely to enable the Patriot Act.
Just as their Mass Shootings are Gun Control Events.
Just as JFK’s assassination was precisely to prevent the CI@ from being splintered into a thousand pieces & scattered to the winds.
This goes really far back… more than a century. Their time’s up and good riddance.
Cleaning up a sick mess is never fun, but always worth doing.
Of course.
Check.
Keep digging. There probably weren’t even planes, at least not the second one. The video footage was faked. Some kind of round device was shot into the WTC #2 to bomb it, and TV aired doctored video. You can see the nose of the plane emerge from the WTC, an impossibility. Footage of the airplane with the odd round “device” underneath was the plane disguising the “ball”, which was why no one could figure out what the round device was.
Maybe it’s time for citizens to form an intelligence network to “check in” on government. Our “public servants “ have gone rouge.
You mean “bleu”.
Snowden should have gotten a pardon. Assange should have gotten a pardon.
Yes. But Trump had rappers to worry about.
…the only option is, live with it! This is here to stay… just too juicy to let go… and hey! they have unlimited powers”
This was supposedly exposed in 2015-16 as political operatives used the NSA data base that collects your emails, phone calls and texts.
Judge Roberts supposed appointed a FISA judge to clean it up. I could be mistaken but I believe it was “randomly assigned to Judge Boasberg (the guy gave probation to Wolfe, Clinesmith, approved one of the Trump Fisa warrants and is now spearheading the Trump criminal case in DC).
We were promised these records were not being kept and then that no one could see them. without a warrant and that AMERICANS were not being spied on.
We should have a national holiday for Snowden who exposed these people.
Orwellian………
I’m sorry to hear about this incursion into my civil rights and the general loss of American freedom but I am too busy watching how my fantasy sports team does to have any time to study up on the coming tyranny.
You do understand how to put an end to this sort of intrusion .. inundate them with so much data to render the database useless. I suggest you start a stream with a friend where you write a fictional story that includes all of those keywords that trigger the monitoring software (nuclear, AK-47, etc) till they finally mute your files.
Tip of the iceberg. How many CONTRACTORS also have access? And that FBI office in DNC HQ??