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Kash Patel scraps FBI unit monitoring surveillance rules compliance
Bureau’s office of internal auditing was set up to uncover misuses of Fisa surveillance during Trump’s first term
The FBI director, Kash Patel, has scrapped a watchdog team set up to scrutinise a warrantless surveillance law he previously claimed was being abused to target supporters of Donald Trump. Critics have expressed concern that section 702 – which legalised Fisa in 2008 as part of then president George W Bush’s “war on terror” – allows the government to collect information without a warrant from foreign targets even if they are communicating with US citizens, arguing that it violates Americans’ constitutional right to privacy. Patel came to prominence as a Republican congressional staff member of the House of Representatives’ intelligence committee in 2018 by criticising the FBI’s applications under Fisa to wiretap a former Trump campaign adviser during the Russia investigation.
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