Quote Originally Posted by Guisslapp View Post
I am more concerned about a section of FISA that allows agencies to do surveillance without getting a warrant from a judge. Section 702 allows the IC to spy on Americans transnational communications (email and phone) as long as the “target” is foreign. By the way, this appears to be the section that allowed some intel to get collected on Trump’s campaign.

The thing is this section doesn’t even require the surveillance to be “contemporaneous” with the communications. Instead, the agencies collect tons of data (including stuff not relating to actual then-known “targets”) and then do “backside” searches.

So, again, if you truly believed the FBI is or can be used for improper political purposes then you wouldn’t support such an expansion of a loophole that allows the IC to largely get around the warrant requirement and infringe American constitutional rights.
“backside” was supposed to be “backdoor”. Same sort of thing in Led Zeppelin lexicon.