"Himes claims these changes are "working as intended" to prevent domestic misuse, citing a compliance rate "exceeding 99 percent" over the past two years."
"The structural foundations of that defense, however, have been fundamentally altered by recent changes within the FBI."
"Himes' "99 percent" compliance metric was produced by the Office of Internal Auditing, a unit that long served as a smoke alarm designed to detect illegality, but no longer exists."
"Without the auditors required to calculate failure rates, the compliance mechanisms Himes points to have effectively ceased to function."
Jim Himes is lobbying to maintain the FBI's authority for warrantless searches of Americans' communications, arguing that there is no evidence of abuse by the Trump administration. He supports the renewal of a surveillance program under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which targets foreign communications but also collects data from U.S. citizens. Himes cites a compliance rate exceeding 99 percent due to reforms, although recent changes in the FBI's oversight mechanisms raise concerns about the reliability of this metric.
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