FBI spying on Americans has tripled.
The American CIA’s annual Transparency Report shows that FBI spying on Americans has tripled in 2021 compared to last year.
In its annual Transparency Report released yesterday (Friday), the US intelligence community acknowledged that between December 2020 and November 2021, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) surveyed approximately 3.4 million Americans. Despite the FBI’s claim that it was looking for foreign hackers, civil liberties groups say the FBI’s move was a widespread attack on American privacy.
According to the Russian network “Rashatodi”, the annual report of the Transparency of the American Intelligence Society, published by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), states that during this period, the FBI, 3 million 394 thousand 53 cases Interrogation of Americans in connection with information collected under controversial license to spy on foreigners.
The report explains that electronic data is legally collected in accordance with Section 702 of the External Information Monitoring Act. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence says that a large part of these interrogations were carried out in an attempt to destabilize important US infrastructure by foreign cyber actors in the first half of 2021.
The report also states that the number of interrogations and investigations of Americans has increased dramatically over the past year, with 1.3 million Americans being interrogated between December 2019 and November 2020, compared to last year. It had tripled.
“I understand that part of it has to do with investigating possible smuggling operations, but refer you to the FBI for more information,” White House spokesman Jen Psaki told reporters yesterday.
