Tag: FISA

SCOTUS Denies Challenge to Federal Surveillance Program

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) has refused to hear a challenge to a federal surveillance program. The program in question, known as “Upstream,” allows the National Security Agency (NSA) to intercept telephone and Internet traffic from within and outside the United States. The details of the program were among those leaked by former…


Supreme Court Denies Challenge to Federal Surveillance Program

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) has refused to hear a challenge to a federal surveillance program. The program in question, known as “Upstream,” allows the National Security Agency (NSA) to intercept telephone and Internet traffic from within and outside the United States. The details of the program were among those leaked by former…


How the FBI Copied Parts of the Debunked Steele Dossier Directly Into Its Spy Requests

The FBI relied more extensively on Christopher Steele’s debunked dossier in their Russiagate investigation than has been revealed, inserting key parts from it into their applications for warrants to spy on the 2016 Trump campaign. Agents did this without telling the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that the precise wording was plucked directly from a political…


Every Narrative Used By The Corporate Media Has Proven To Be False. | Truth Over News

As a larger group, we early investigators and informed conservatives were right about the Russia-Collusion scam. We were right about the Carter Page FISA scam. We were right about the Steele Dossier scam. We were right about the Alfa Bank scam. We were right about FBI Leadership, DNC & John Brennan being consummate liars. We…


Durham Prosecutes FBI Informants, While Protecting Their Handlers

Since being named special counsel in October 2020, John Durham has investigated or indicted several unscrupulous anti-Trump informants. But he has spared the FBI agents who handled them, raising suspicions he’s letting investigators off the hook in his waning investigation of misconduct in the Russiagate probe. In recent court filings, Durham has portrayed the G-men…


FBI Agent Under Investigation for Withholding Exculpatory Information in Trump-Russia Probe

WASHINGTON—The FBI is probing the alleged withholding of exculpatory information during the series of investigations into Donald Trump and his campaign known collectively as Crossfire Hurricane, it was revealed in federal court. Agent Curtis Heide said on the stand on May 24 while testifying during a trial that he is being investigated as part of…


Report Shows FBI Spied on 3.3 Million Americans Without a Warrant, GOP Demands Answers

Top House Republicans are demanding answers from the FBI after court-ordered information came to light showing that the federal agency had collected the information of over 3 million Americans without a warrant. In a May 25 letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Mike Turner (R-Ohio) asked Wray to explain why…


Supreme Court Considers State-Secrets Privilege in Muslims’ Surveillance Lawsuit Against FBI

An appeals court was wrong to allow a lawsuit to proceed against the FBI based on a claim that it discriminated against Muslims by targeting them in a counterterrorism investigation, the Biden administration told the Supreme Court Nov. 8. The case is FBI v. Fazaga, court file 20-828. Former Imam Yassir Fazaga and two other…


House Republicans Demand Answers from FBI on FISA Abuse Revelations

House Republicans have called on FBI Director Christopher Wray to provide a “detailed accounting” of every instance since 2019 that the agency has used warrantless surveillance authority to obtain information unrelated to national security, while accusing the FBI of “illegal spying activities.” Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), in a joint letter to…


FBI Abused Secretive Surveillance Program, Court Finds

The FBI continued abusing the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act program, including searching for information on people who had gone to the bureau to report they were victims of a crime, a newly declassified document shows. One FBI information specialist between April 11, 2019, and July 8, 2019, conducted approximately 124 queries of information obtained…