Poorly trained FBI agents illegally shared spy data on US citizens with others, including a ‘private entity,’ documents show – contradicting James Comey’s Congress testimony…(Lock Him UP!!)
FBI agents can only see see spy data on Americans in certain circumstances
But declassified documents show laws are being bent and broken
Data has been shared with outside parties, and client-lawyer privilege breached
Comey also said only people with ‘appropriate training and oversight’ see data
But for years FBI failed to install review teams to vet intercepted data for legality
And only now are they aggressively training up staff so they can vet it
Comey said agents only see ‘lawfully collected, carefully overseen’ data
But court heard FBI searches give access to all data – including US citizens’
By JAMES WILKINSON
DAILYMAIL.COM
26 May 2017
The FBI has illegally shared spy data on US citizens with a series of outside bodies including the NSA, government contractors and a ‘private entity,’ newly released documents show.
The declassified memos claim there were repeated breaches of laws designed to protect Americans from being illicitly snooped on and that FBI agents were not properly trained to handle the data, Circa reported.
That directly contradicts statements made by former FBI director James Comey on May 3, in his last congressional hearing before he was fired.
He claimed that his agents only used spy data on Americans without a warrant when it had been ‘lawfully collected, carefully overseen and checked’ – but the memos say that’s not true.
The claims emerged in a newly declassified April ruling by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) that accuses the FBI of hundreds of violations.
Among those violations are instances of the agency sharing data illegally with third parties including a ‘private entity’ with no legal right to access the information.
The FBI also accessed protected attorney-client communications that had been intercepted without using the oversight procedures it claimed had been put in place.
Not only that, but they failed for two years to put in place properly trained review teams that can determine whether intercepts break attorney-client privilege.
The FBI told the FISA court that it was training up agents in this area to solve the problem.
Unfortunately that remark contradicted a statement made by Comey last year: ‘Nobody gets to see FISA information of any kind unless they’ve had the appropriate training and have the appropriate oversight,’ he told.
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