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asking about was deeply dist disturbing. we had an individual wearing a tactic call vest and gun and nail gun who tried to attack the cincinnati field office. a subsequent review of the subjects devices and online postings identified a pretty striking anti-f.b.i., anti-federal law enforcement hostility. he was calling on others to kill federal law enforcement claiming he felt he was fighting in his words a civil war. it is unfortunately part of a broader phenomenon that we have seen no...

The FBI is releasing two documents regarding queries of information collected under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

Whats caught up in a title 3 wiretap, you have to talk about minimization and whether thats followed. by the way, if agents do not follow minimization procedures, that could be the basis for a motion to suppress. >> minimization, when you say that, you essentially mean going through the information thats collected and making sure to minimize things that arent relevant to your investigation. >> well, no. a fisa warrant involves taking all of those data, communications, and storing them. federal w...

Intelligence reporting on terrorist threats, leadership plans, intentions, counter proliferation, counter intelligence, and many other issues that affect us. it is subject to multiple layers of oversight and from the judicial, legislative branches. the surveillance court must approve minimization procedures for each relevant i.c. agency before the agency can review collected information. at the end of the day, fisa collection provides our government with the foreign intelligence that our nation ...

Agencies themselves whose office of general counsel, privacy and civil liberties offices and inspectors general all have a role in fisas 702 program oversight. the majority of the incidents of non-compliance that are reported to my office and to the department of justice are self-reported by the participating agencies. in addition, the office of the dni and the department of justice conduct regular audits, focusing on compliance with the targeting procedures as well as on querying a collected da...

Secondly, the outline in writing, what criteria will be were applied. under our process of section 702 to protect the identity of u.s. persons as part of our minimization procedures. when we think we need to reference a u.s. person in a report, we will not use a name or identity. we say u.s. person one, two, three. the report is on problem gated. some of the recipients of that report will come back to us and say im trying to understand what i am reading, could you help me understand who is perso...

Agencies themselves whose offices of general counsel, privacy and civil liberties offices and inspectors general all have a role in fisa 702 program oversight. the majority of the incidents of non-compliance reported to my office and to the department of justice are self-reported by the participating agencies. in addition, the office of the dni and department of justice conduct regular audits focusing on compliance with the targeting procedures as well as on querying of collected data and on dis...

Intelligence reporting on terrorists threats, leadership plans, intentions, counter proliferation, counter intelligence and many other issues that affect us. it is subject to multiple layers of oversight and reporting requirements from the executive, the judicial and the legislative branches. the foreign intelligence surveillance court must approve minimization procedures for each relevant ic agency before the agency can review collected information. at the end of the day, fisa provides our gove...

Director. secondly, we outline in writing what are the criteria that will be applied to a request to unmask. in a report and, again, part of the process under 702, to protect the identity of u.s. persons as part of our minimization procedures. when we think we need to reference a u.s. person in a report, we will not use a name. we will not use an identity. we say u.s. person one. u.s. person two. u.s. person three. th some of the recipients of the report will sometimes come back to us and say, i...

What that criteria that will be applied to a request to unmask in a report and again, part of our process under 702 to protect the identity of u.s. persons as part of our minimization procedures. when we think we need to reference a u.s. person in the report, we will not use a name or an identity, we say u.s. person one, u.s. person two, u.s. person three. that is promulgated. some recipients of the report say im trying to understand what i am reading, could you help me understand who is person ...