reporter: section 702 and part of foreign intelligence sush act and fbi only really authorized to search the 702 data base and reason to believe it ll produce evidence of foreign actor crimes usually the suspect is based abroad. in the year ending 2021 and the filing shows fbi used the arndt lesser much power warrant lesser much powers against it and 278,000 times and searches on americans involved with the capitol riot and the george flood protest in the summer of 2020 and the batch of 19,000 donors and unnamed congressional campaign and one fbi searcher was described in the filing and the analyst said she ran the queries for the individuals with foreign ties and indicated with the fbi systems and the capitol break investigation and did not remember why she ran these 13 queries for the fisa queries and they ve tightened restrictions since 2021 and fox news learning in 2022 this was the number of searches dropped by 94% and senior fbi official shared senior director fbi dir
looking at things like no way to authorize the program considering the abuse and how could we take christopher wray s word on it? we accidently did it 278,000 times looking for predicate based on incident whether you re a candidate, january 6, blm and these are the people we re looking at and what foreigners they re talking to and they re already unmasked and see if we can find a crime they committed based on surveilling them even further. this is not without a warrant at all without them knowing at all. that s not how the government is supposed to work. rachel: they were vessels laninged and working on it. pete: big question, i think he was.