The FBI finds itself under the greatest scrutiny for its surveillance practices since the post-Watergate investigations of the 1970s unearthed decades of abuses
WASHINGTON—A report from the Justice Department’s inspector general has renewed longstanding privacy concerns about whether the Federal Bureau of Investigation conducts surveillance on U.S. citizens without sufficient protections, placing both the nation’s chief law-enforcement agency and a post-Watergate-era intelligence law under intense political scrutiny.
Monday’s report from Michael Horowitz, the Justice Department’s inspector general, concluded that the FBI was justified in opening a counterintelligence investigation...
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