Federal law enforcement officers are concerned that terrorists could establish a coordinated invasion in the United States that resembled the ISIS-K terrorist attack that took place last month in Russia.
During a hearing on Thursday, Reuters reported that FBI Director Christopher Wray was scheduled to give the House of Representatives this notice.
In ready notes, Christopher Wray states,” Looking back on my career in law protection, I’d be hard-pressed to recall a time when threats to our public health and national security were so elevated all at once.” However, as I sit around right now, that is the situation.
More than 140 people were killed when ISIS-K jihadists stormed a music hall in Moscow late last month and opened fire with involuntary while simultaneously igniting the venue’s sold-out interior.
Wray will assert that a growing threat in the United States has the potential for a planned invasion there, similar to the ISIS-K attack we witnessed at the Russia Concert Hall a few weeks ago.
He is expected to urge House members to renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act ( FISA ), a crucial component of the U.S. surveillance system used to track foreign threats to the United States.
The software, which is scheduled to expire next quarter unless it is renewed, has come under scrutiny in recent years after some federal law enforcement officers abused it.
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But, officials have made changes to the way the system may be accessed to reduce instances of abuse, including requiring agents to” form a certain justification for every search, receive monthly training, and getting approval from an attorney before any’batch job’ that may run more than 100 names against the system,” according to The Washington Post’s Editorial Board this week.
” The Justice Department says these changes led to a 98 percent drop in the number of U. S. person queries of the 702 database, from 2.9 million in 2021 to 119, 383 in 2022 and 57, 094 in 2023″, the article added. ” Audits have demonstrated that essentially all of them adhered to the regulations. The FBI has also created escalating consequences for using the system, including denying criminal referrals access.
