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The FBI seal, Aug. 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

FBI wrongly searched for U.S. senator, state senator in Section 702 spy data, court says

By Nomaan Merchant - Associated Press

The FBI seal, Aug. 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

FBI broke rules in scouring foreign intelligence on Jan. 6 riot, racial justice protests, court says

By Eric Tucker - Associated Press

The FBI seal is displayed on a podium before a news conference at the agency's headquarters on June 14, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

FBI says past searches of foreign intelligence database broke standards but reforms have been made

By Eric Tucker - Associated Press

Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, speaks with reporters following a day of questions from the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP file Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) ** FILE **

Kevin Clinesmith lawyers say crime victims groups shouldn’t intervene for Carter Page

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this July 12, 2018, file photo, then-FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok, testifies before a House Judiciary Committee joint hearing on &quot;oversight of FBI and Department of Justice actions surrounding the 2016 election&quot; on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

FISA errors did not influence court decisions: FBI, DOJ says

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

The FBI's J. Edgar Hoover Headquarters, across the street from the Justice Department in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

FISA judge rips FBI, orders disclosure of targets in faulty surveillance warrant applications

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this file photo, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, of N.Y., questions FBI Director Christopher Wray as he testifies during an oversight hearing of the House Judiciary Committee, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

FISA bill vote canceled as both parties push for more reforms

By Jeff Mordock and Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

In this Nov. 2, 2017, photo, Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, speaks with reporters following a day of questions from the House Intelligence Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Two of FBI’s FISA warrants for Carter Page ‘not valid’: DOJ

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this file photo, Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., right, speaks to members of the media as Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, left, looks on as they arrive for closed-door meeting to hear testimony from Tim Morrison, a former senior National Security Council official, in the House impeachment inquiry about President Donald Trump's efforts to press Ukraine to investigate his political rivals, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) ** FILE **

Jordan, Meadows demand to know why Obama DOJ official was appointed by FISA court

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this Dec. 9, 2019, file photo, FBI Director Christopher Wray speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

FBI tightening up wiretap protocols after watchdog report

By Eric Tucker - Associated Press

Carter Page, an adviser to U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, speaks at the graduation ceremony for the New Economic School in Moscow on July 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin) **FILE**

FISA court raps FBI’s faulty affidavits for Trump wiretaps: ‘Serious misconduct’

By Jeff Mordock and Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Unconstitutional FISA Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) contradicts the Constitution

By Andrew P. Napolitano

Attorney General William Barr listens as President Donald Trump speaks during an event to sign an executive order establishing the Task Force on Missing and Murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives, in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

William Barr says FBI may have acted in ‘bad faith’

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Illustration on investigating FISA abuse by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Why Jeff Sessions must act now, not later

By Fred Gedrich

Christopher Steele, former British intelligence officer, in London Tuesday, March 7, 2017. Steele who compiled an explosive and unproven dossier on President Donald Trump’s purported activities in Russia has returned to work. Christopher Steele said Tuesday he is “really pleased” to be back at work in London after a prolonged period out of public view. He went into hiding in January. (Victoria Jones/PA via AP) ** FILE **

Christopher Steele’s Trump dossier info led FBI to mislead FISA judge

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Illustration on CIA spying by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Domestic spying makes mockery of the Constitution

By Andrew P. Napolitano

In this Thursday, June 6, 2013, file photo, a sign stands outside the National Security Administration (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

NSA phone-snooping program approved through November

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

NSA phone record collection is excessive: U.S. appeals court

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

PRIVACY: Verizon case won’t be closed for long time to come

By Brett Max Kaufman — Special to The Washington Times

Illustration on efforts to continue NSA surveillance by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

SLOAN: A fix for the USA Freedom Act

By Virginia Sloan