fbi used everyday americans 28,000 times going into 2020 to 2021. section 02 of the foreign intelligence surveillance act also known as fisa. it gives the fbi and other agencies the ability to difficultily surveil.used the te civil unrest following the death of george floyd on the streets of the united states. those involved in the january 6th capitol attack. even political donors. according to the court a redacted name or names, quote: conducted a batch query for over 19,000 donors to a congressional campaign. the analyst who ran the query advised that the campaign was a target of foreign influence but the national security division determined that only 8 identifiers used in a query had sufficient ties to foreign influence activities to comply with the querying standard. the judge wrote that the problems were persistent and widespread and, quote: it may become necessary to consider other responses such as substantially limiting the number of fbi personnel with access to unmi
mccarthy did a great job of holding people together. he is in the more positive position on this debt ceiling negotiation. my loser is the fbi. i think that after the durham report and everything that we got out of that it is just a total blight on their institutional them as an institutional entity that americans can trust and have faith in as being, you know, someone who we can trust to not get involved in elections in the future. bret: panel, thank you. have a great weekend full-time for notable quotables. what you have with john disurm a big fat nothing. he betray as deep misunderstanding of not only what we knew at the time but how we make these decisions? if it wasn t a witch-hunt it s a damn good imitation. being a sanctuary city or sanctuary state sounds nice until you see what it really looks like. they are bursting at the
judge jeanine: how old is he? lawrence: i don t know. a little kid. check out my show 9:00 eastern time tomorrow night and then check out judge jeanine on sunday at 10:00. thanks a lot, lawrence, that s it for us. we will see you pack here on monday. have a terrific weekend. take care bret: good evening, welcome to washington. i m bret baier. breaking tonight, new allegations that the fbi overstepped its authority in conducting investigations against american citizens. and not just a few times. we re talking in the hundreds of thousands of times correspondent david spunt at the justice department tonight with the breaking details. good evening, david. bret, good evening, this story is quite something. this court document released just a few hours agoer he nawntd
other responses such as substantially limiting the number of fbi personnel with access to unminimized section 702 information. federal intelligence officials are pushing hard and begging congress practically to fully p section 702 all in the name of safety. it expires december 31st of this year. it is critical that congress fully renew section 702 of the foreign intelligence surveillance act, which provides fast, reliable, and specific insights that enhance our understanding of the threats posed by our adversaries. we re seeing some bipartisan action on capitol hill. republicans and democrats not happy. congressman jerry nadler said today the fbi has promised changes before, quote: without significant changes to the law to prevent this abuse, i will oppose the reauthorization of this authority. now, government data and i m reading it now shows the fbi conducted approximately 204,000
queries, a 94% drop from 2021 going into 2022, citing that they have made some changes. in a statement we just got from the fbi they quote the director, christopher wray saying this is, quote: completely unacceptable but, bret, no doubt this caps off a difficult week for the federal bureau of investigation which began critical criticism from the durham report on monday and, of course those fbi whistleblowers yesterday. now we have this story today about the surveillance program. bret. bret: tough week for the fbi. david spunt at the justice department. david, thank you. president biden is talking about russian aggression in ukraine at the g-7 summit in japan. he has informed his colleagues the u.s. will support the training of ukrainian pilots on fourth generation aircraft, including f-16 warplanes. that s a major reversal for president biden and this white house. white house correspondent peter doocy is in hiroshima tonight. good evening i should say good