"The new bill mandates that a civil liberties protection officer at the Director of National Intelligence review all queries of U.S. persons made by the FBI under this program to make sure no laws have been broken. It's bad enough to let the intelligence community police itself, and what's more, the assessment for illegality would be made after a U.S. person has already been spied on."
"This bill 'prohibits targeting United States persons,' but so does current law. This 'change' does absolutely nothing to address what's really happening - which is that surveillance of people in the United States is usually justified as 'incidental' because Americans aren't the primary targets."
The Foreign Intelligence Accountability Act was introduced to address the expiration of Section 702 of FISA but does not provide essential reforms for privacy advocates. It lacks a real warrant requirement for the FBI to access private conversations of U.S. citizens. The bill includes a civil liberties protection officer to review FBI queries, but this self-policing mechanism is insufficient. Current laws already prohibit targeting U.S. persons, and the proposed changes do not effectively address the ongoing surveillance issues faced by Americans.
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