emptywheel

Reminder: The Section 702 bill the Senate will vote cloture on today gives criminal suspects more protection than it gives people against whom the FBI has no evidence of wrong-doing. Call your Senator and tell them to vote no.

How does it protect criminals more than non criminals?

It requires FBI get a warrant only when querying data for a fully predicated criminal investigation, not if it's just checking a tip.

This was then, David Nunes is adding an amendment in which oversight will be required for 702 searches.

No. It's meaningless.

702 “about searches/queries” had no oversight b4 NSA Director Mike Rogers shut the searches down in late October 2016 after finding out about the violations. Now they r adding oversight which deters illegal/suspicious activity in re to these searches. How is that “meaningless”?

You're talking about something besides backdoor searches, for one. For two, there was oversight before: I knew abt the violations. For three, what Nunes did was codify the way to reopen abouts, not oversee them.

702 & all its sub numbers (in which I specifically mentioned “about queries” (702(17))) will have oversight & not by Obama admin hold overs like head of DOJ NatSec Division, Asst. Attorney General John P Carlin who left his job right after Rogers asked 4 a review on the searches.