New court documents show FBI's mishandling of digital surveillance

A court order shows that the FBI misused information from a database, wrongly searching for information on Americans and other more than 278,000 times in 2020 and 2021. NBC's Ken Dilanian reports.

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[DeeWeber]

Finally! Please keep on this. We need FISA reform and a repeal of the patriot act. We need a digital rights amendment.

[Thekingmaker]

They dont have to bug civil rights leaders nowadays because they "got rid" of them all.🤷🏾‍♂️

[sootymammal]

STOP GIVING UP RIGHTS FOR THE APPEARANCE OF SAFETY!

[jamalwilburn]

They arent bugging bedrooms because they can get alot more with alot less effort

[snowrose]

When the FBI is concerned there may be a huge number of homegrown terrorists that they may have missed and that could be massing for a coup, I'm not so uncomfortable about their straying from straight and narrow searches.

[rorygay]

And what is the role of homeland security in this?

[Jane-pine]

It because police think they can take all your rights if you've ever been in trouble.unless your friends and family or pay them

[lexluthor]

3:45 if we only know this because they revealed it, maybe some outside investigation is needed to see if they were honest and revealed everything

[jes]

rip Hoover's name off these buildings

[antonymu]

why don't search illegal immigrants come to the US?

[KathyrnShirey-xohd]

And some Americans will defend this abuse of power like having a tyrannical government is a good thing.

[listenandwinl.a.w.]

Are we hearing FBI are running suspects’ names through databases without warrants to find out if those suspects have connections to foreigners? Is that what this is?

[HairHoFla]

2020 and early 2021? Sounds like the Trump Admin to me....guarantee Barr was in on it

[thjbird]

This should be good news for the Republicans as they try to finish the coup.

[ibfirehead]

And guess what nothing will happen to them !!! Those that make the rules can break the rules

[therevolutionoflove]

The question those engaged and participating in the illegal invasions and intrusions of others very personal privacy ought to ask themselves is how they'd feel if people were illegally reading their private correspondences...?

When you're engaging in such crimes and illegalities you're destined to be wrong, every single time, about who someone else's private correspondences are directed to and meant for, and the essence of them. Messages that were never meant for you in the first place. Yet if you garner and muster the courage and intestinal fortitude to correct, admit to, and right your wrongdoings, crimes and illegalities you'd quickly find out why you were wrong all along by being willing to have an honest discussion with the person you're illegally targeting.

[MrNathanstenzel]

Criminal suspects being investigated in databases does not seem far fetched to me. I only have to wonder if there was a warrant to investigate the suspects in available databases. If there was, there is no problem here.

[lindseyb]

Vanty gind the ones eho planted tbe pipe nombs rven thought tbe have a car eith a license plate numbet and video pf one of the suspects sitting on a bench using a phone that the FBI could yrace love ke thet did eith Jan sixth suspects

[lynnturman]

So....they used tools that were available to them to gain information about possible criminal suspects. How is that "inappropriate?"

[aglady]

This was a horrible thing that happened to this man but just a question Rev Al
Just a question where was his family when he was he going thru all his mental health crisis are they NOW coming out the woods to support him in death 🤔🤓 kust my opinion.