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Skeletor:
As usual the killers and their accomplices have not been named and are enjoying paid vacation.
Body camera footage shows police in New Mexico going to wrong address and fatally shooting homeowner
Police released body camera footage and 911 audio on Friday of officers fatally shooting a homeowner after they responded to the wrong house for a domestic violence call.
Farmington Police officers killed Robert Dotson, 52, when he answered the door with a handgun on April 5 at about 11:30 p.m., police initially said.
The newly released videos show the unidentified officers immediately opening fire after Dotson opened the door with the gun. Officers opened fire again after a woman was heard in the video screaming. Police previously said the woman, Dotson's wife, returned fire to the officers. She was not injured.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/04/15/new-mexico-police-release-body-cam-showing-fatal-shooting-wrong-address-robert-dotson/11670184002/
Skeletor:
Jordan says FBI should be kicked out of probes into US citizens flagged in FISA investigations
Brooke Singman
Thu, April 27, 2023
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan argued Thursday that the FBI should no longer play any role in looking into American citizens who get flagged during investigations into non-U.S. citizens, in light of evidence that a substantial portion of these FBI "queries" are made in error.
The subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance held a hearing on how to fix the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and how this law "designed to protect Americans has been weaponized against them."
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.
However, both Republicans and Democrats used the hearing to note that these FBI queries have become a problem. For example, Ranking Member Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., said that last year alone, the FBI used "personal identifiers" to query U.S. citizens "nearly 3.4 million times," while other lawmakers pointed out that up to 30% of those queries were conducted "in error."
In the subcommittee hearing, Jordan questioned Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz and other witnesses about how many Americans have been queried as part of 702 investigations into non-U.S. citizens, but they said they had no answer.
"And then approximately 10,000 people at the Justice Department have the ability to query this incidental collection database without any probable cause," Jordan said. "And we know, as Ranking Member Nadler said earlier, there were 3.4 million queries of this database and 30% of those were in error."
Jordan said a "simple" solution would be to "require probable cause if you’re going to query this database on American citizens," something that witness Sharon Franklin, the chair of the U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, said she supported.
"How about if we just get the FBI out of the business altogether—what if the FBI can’t query this database? " Jordan asked. "If the FBI can’t query this database on American citizens?"
https://news.yahoo.com/jordan-says-fbi-kicked-probes-174853520.html
Skeletor:
Is the FBI censoring content on social platforms at the behest of a foreign regime?
How The FBI Helps Ukrainian Intelligence Hunt ‘Disinformation’ On Social Media
The Federal Bureau of Investigation pressures Facebook to take down alleged Russian “disinformation” at the behest of Ukrainian intelligence, according to a senior Ukrainian official who corresponds regularly with the FBI. The same official said that Ukrainian authorities define “disinformation” broadly, flagging many social media accounts and posts that he suggested may simply contradict the Ukrainian government’s narrative.
“Once we have a trace or evidence of disinformation campaigns via Facebook or other resources that are from the U.S., we pass this information to the FBI, along with writing directly to Facebook,” said llia Vitiuk, head of the Department of Cyber Information Security in the Security Service of Ukraine.
"We asked FBI for support to help us with Meta, to help us with others, and sometimes we get good results with that,” noted Vitiuk. “We say, 'Okay, this was the person who was probably Russia's influence.'"
Vitiuk, in an interview, said that he is a proponent of free speech and understands concerns around social media censorship. But he also admitted that he and his colleagues take a deliberately expansive view of what counts as “Russian disinformation.”
“When people ask me, ‘How do you differentiate whether it is fake or true?’ Indeed it is very difficult in such an informational flow,” said Vitiuk. “I say, ‘Everything that is against our country, consider it a fake, even if it's not.’ Right now, for our victory, it is important to have that kind of understanding, not to be fooled.”
https://www.leefang.com/p/how-the-fbi-helps-ukrainian-intelligence
Soul Crusher:
FBI and CIA need to go away. So far 2 elections in a row they rigged it.
Soul Crusher:
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