New data shows court orders from the foreign intelligence court targeting individuals dropped sharply. Officials say that is due partly to the pandemic and a decrease in terrorist activity to investigate.
targeting a former Trump campaign adviser, intelligence officials did not attribute the steep decline to any change in policy. Rather, they pointed toSeparately, officials reported a major increase in the number of searches of data related to people or companies in the United States. That program, referred to by the part of federal law that created it, Section 702, authorizes queries of broad pools of data gathered for foreign intelligence purposes.
Authorities said Friday that the pandemic has accelerated and deepened a longer-term trend in the decrease in probable cause FISA orders for surveillance and searches, which began before 2019.
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