Documents reveal FBI had access to emails, photos, videos, conversations of 278 thousand Americans. This by using a surveillance program set up to combat foreign threats.
U.S. citizens enjoy legal protections when it comes to privacy. These requests have targeted people arrested on the sidelines of the anti-racist protests that followed the death of George Floyd in 2020. These revelations could not have come at a worse time for the FBI at a time when the law that allows the use of this program is set to expire.