FBI Section 702 query violations
FBI surveillance compliance failures
Summary
FBI Section 702 query violations were a series of compliance failures by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) involving warrantless searches of communications collected under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Between 2020 and early 2022, Bureau personnel conducted more than 278,000 searches of surveillance databases that did not meet legal standards.
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11/24/2025, 5:51:26 AM
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/* Query volume and decline */ Specifying that this is not necessarily the number of queries, but is the number of queries that FBI is actually tracking. https://www.justsecurity.org/135283/truth-behind-section-702-query-statistics/
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Undid revision [[Special:Diff/1332959257|1332959257]] by [[Special:Contributions/Bladerunner24|Bladerunner24]] ([[User talk:Bladerunner24|talk]]) Use higher quality sources than Washington Times, and don't use these primary sources. These three sources do no establish due weight for mention of this content. FInd the quote in an independent, non-governmental source.
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Warrantless searches in the United States
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