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Why should they need a warrant to surveil foreign targets? > Section 702 allows the Feds to warrantlessly spy on communications belonging to foreigners outside
by 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y ago
Why should they need a warrant to surveil foreign targets?
> Section 702 allows the Feds to warrantlessly spy on communications belonging to foreigners outside of the United States in the name of preventing crime and terrorists attacks.
- ofslidingfeet 3y agoBecause the FBI is supposed to be a domestic law enforcement agency.
- rtkwe 3y agoAlso if they can capture foreign correspondence without a warrant they can just bug the family of any US person and gather all their communications with them through that. That person's communications are supposed to be protected by a warrant under the 4th.
- ImPostingOnHN 3y agoI agree on the warrant point, but how could they bug the family of any US person unless that person or those family members are out of the country?
- rtkwe 3y agoThings like Room 641a [0] and requests to service providers. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
- tssva 3y agoThe warrant would only be required to review data of US citizens which is captured while surveilling foreign targets.
- aaronmdjones 3y agoBecause they've been abusing it to warrantlessly snoop on the communications with or involving US persons.
- Someone1234 3y agoThey cannot "target" US Persons with 702, but what they CAN do is "target" every foreign person (e.g. family) a US Person knows and then intercept any communications that US Person has with them. That is legal. That's the implied use of 702, to spy on inter-US communications if they originate abroad. Now they're telling us, again, that they should be able to spy on US Persons' communications with friends/family/business interests abroad without a warranty because warrants are too inconvenient.