Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio., told Newsmax on Wednesday that the FBI “didn’t follow their own rules” when the agency illegally pulled data from Americans 278,000 times without a warrant.
Earlier on Wednesday the House of Representatives blocked legislation to extend a section of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act known as Section 702, which permits law enforcement agencies to target foreigners abroad for surveillance without first getting an approval from a judge, The New York Times reported.
The chair of the House Judiciary Committee said that intelligence agencies in the process of foreign surveillance “sweep up American communications as well.”
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