"In another incident, the FBI ran searches using the “names of a local political party,” even though a connection to foreign intelligence was “not reasonably li

"In another incident, the FBI ran searches using the “names of a local political party,” even though a connection to foreign intelligence was “not reasonably likely.” The DOJ explained the errors away by saying FBI personnel “misunderstood” the search procedures, adding they were “subsequently reminded of how to correctly apply the query rules.”" Fascinating, FISA was created iirc in part in response to nixon's spying on political groups, half a century later this is what we see and the response is just to...remind them how to correctly apply the query rules? If that is the response to such a thing I find it hard to believe it isn't a common occurrence that is just being hand waved away because it "leaked". And the article itself is filled with even more examples. I'm not opposed to calling the new age church committee politically motivated, it clearly is, but at the very least they are trying to do something about it. It's pretty sad how after the russiagate conspiracy theory took steam the "left-wing" media started putting the intelligence community in a pedestal and now it seems like distrusting them is a republican position, bizarrely.