ODNI report reveals ‘significant decline’ in FBI queries of US citizens under FISA 702 last year
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The Office of the Director of National Intelligence said there was a “significant decline" in the total number of queries the FBI made into U.S. persons between 2021 and 2022.
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Section 702 of FISA allows the government to conduct targeted surveillance of non-U.S. persons located abroad to acquire foreign intelligence information. When U.S. citizens are flagged as part of these investigations, the FBI takes over the process of querying them for possible security reasons.
"There was a significant decline in total FBI U.S. person queries in the period December 2021-November 2022," the report states, crediting a "number of changes FBI made to its systems, processes, and training relating to U.S. persons queries."