“The FBI conducted thousands of queries on digital data collected on U.S. citizens in 2021 and 2022 despite having no warrant and no justification under the FBI’s own rules, according to an internal report released on May 10…
According to a separate FBI report, the agency conducted more than 204,000 queries of FISA data on U.S. citizens in 2022. Given a 4 percent noncompliance rate, that would indicate that the digital communications of Americans were obtained by the FBI more than 8,000 times with no warrant and without proper justification under rules approved by the FISA Court.”