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By Amber Crawford
During a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on Thursday, Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz (R) got DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz to admit that the FBI conducted 3.4 million warrantless “backdoor searches” of Americans’ communications.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) allows intelligence agencies to carry out targeted surveillance of foreigners outside the U.S. The FBI, however, has been using FISA on Americans through backdoor searches.
According to a 2022 transparency report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, there were 3.4 million backdoor searches conducted in 2021. On Thursday, Gaetz questioned Horowitz about these searches.