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Action Alert – ODNI Release of FISA Court Review Reveals Alarming Disconnect That Must Be Discussed Before FISA-702 Reauthorization
July 23, 2023 | Sundance1/2
There is a major issue within the use of the FISA-702 authority that must be immediately understood. A silo problem that is not being discussed within Congress as the potential for FISA-702 reauthorization is looming…
(Really long article, 3/4s of it cut for the most important parts)
…Congress (House and Senate) weighs the FISC review heavily.
Here’s the issue. There are exponentially more violations taking place than are contained in the reporting from the NSA and FBI to the FISA Court. The FISC is only seeing one small part of the overall compliance picture. There are way more violations taking place than the court is aware of.
This is a silo issue, where the court is isolated in a silo without receiving information from the Dept of Justice (another silo). How do we know this?
Because the Dept of Justice Office of Inspector General (DOJ-OIG) reviews the entire U.S. government as part of the new, Trump initiated, OIG oversight of the DOJ National Security Division (DOJ-NSD).
Inspector General Michael Horowitz doesn’t just look at the FBI or NSA using the database; the OIG looks at the entire government and who has access to this NSA database to perform searches. There is a massive disparity between the number of unauthorized searches conducted and self-reported by the NSA and FBI silos, when compared to the whole of government.=The FISA Court only hears about the NSA/FBI violations, not the unauthorized searchesconducted outside the NSA/FBI by people who have access to this database.
How big is the disparity?HUGE!
Office of Inspector General Michael Horowitz testified April 27, 2023, thatmore 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).
Within his congressional testimony, OIG Horowitz stated, “Approximately 30% of those 3.4 million search queries were noncompliant,” that is outside the rules and regulations that govern warrantless searches. The government calls these “non-compliant searches.” Additionally, IG Horowitz also stated that somewhere north of “10,000 federal employees have accessto conduct these searches of the NSA database.”
While DOJ-OIG Horowitz is looking at the entire government, he reports these violations only into the silo of the Dept of Justice.Horowitz does not report his findings to the FISA Court. The violations by Horowitz, in this example over a million illegal or “noncompliant” searches, is reported internally to the DOJ (Main Justice). The DOJ (an information silo) does not turn these findings over to the FISA Court (another information silo).
As a result, the FISC opinion of the database compliance audit is only reached with a limited perspective on the totality of the violations taking place within government.
As a result, the FISC report does not contain discussion of the violations discovered by IG Horowitz.
As a result, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) and Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) do not debate the FISA-702 reauthorization with the fulsome scale of the jaw dropping abuse of the database outlined by IG Michael Horowitz. FISA-702 reauthorization is debated in congress based on the 2023 FISC report which does not include the Horowitz review.
The 2023 FISC report is a compliance review of a very limited subset of database search queries, and only includes those done by the NSA and FBI…..
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/07/23/action-alert-odni-release-of-fisa-court-review-reveals-alarming-disconnect-that-must-be-discussed-before-fisa-702-reauthorization/
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Why is this only just now coming to light?
Simple answer, despite the DOJ National Security Department creation in the first year of President Obama’s term (2009 by AG Eric Holder), the Inspector General was never permitted oversight.
Despite his requests, the IG office was blocked by the DOJ-NSD for the entire Obama term in office. In 2015 the OIG again requested oversight, and it was Sally Yateswho responded with a lengthy 58-page legal explanation saying essentially, ‘nope – not allowed.’ (PDF HERE) All of the DOJ is subject to oversight – except the NSD. The claimed justification was “national security,” and the information was too sensitive.
It was not until 2017, when President Trump and AG Jeff Sessions took office, that IG Michael Horowitz was granted oversight into the DOJ-NSD. With this oversight authority Horowitz first started his review of the FISA application used against Carter Page (2017/2018). Then, using the problems discovered within the Page FISA application, the IG expanded the review to the entire FISA application process in the entire DOJ (2019). The initial review of the process was horrible {SEE HERE} resulting in a major report of criticism [SEE HERE] in late 2021.
From there, in late 2021 IG Horowitz began the very first compliance review, outside of the limitations of the NSA/FBI self-reporting, and looked at the totality of the FISA-702 process as it was used to access the database from December 2020 to December 2021. His first full report was generated only a few months ago, and the IG testified to Congress. [LINK]
None of the FISA-702 reauthorizations, that have taken place between origination to today, have ever included a review of the entire government access, until Horowitz testified in late April.
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.This number is much, much larger than the search queries produced by NSA/FBI review to the FISA Court.
Additionally, as noted by IG Horowitz around 10,000 federal employees have accessto conduct these searches of the NSA database, and his review of the searches revealed that 30% of them, that’s over a million, were noncompliant.
ACTION: At the very least, we immediately need to contact our congressional representatives and senatorsand inform them the FISA-702 reauthorization cannot be appropriately debated, considered or reviewed, without the FISA Court first receiving the information from the DOJ Inspector General review of the FISA-702 process. No FISC opinion is worth anything when it is based on a minimal subset of the actual violations that factually take place. This is at a minimum!
The FISC silo must receive the violation information from the silo at the DOJ.
I’ll have more on this, but for now this point is super important.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/07/23/action-alert-odni-release-of-fisa-court-review-reveals-alarming-disconnect-that-must-be-discussed-before-fisa-702-reauthorization/
Statement of Michael E. Horowitz Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance concerning “Fixing FISA: How a Law Designed to Protect Americans Has Been Weaponized Against Them”
Here’s Horowitz document Sundance linked on FISC and FISA
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