BATTLE FOR WORLD / NATIONAL REVIEW | October 8, 2019: The United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has ruled that an intended FBI program to target foreign suspects has violated the constitutional right to privacy of Americans by collecting personal information of American citizens together with foreign targets of the surveillance.

The ruling highlights that the tens of thousands of searches made by the FBI of raw intelligence databases from 2017 to 2018 were illegal, according to the article reported in the Wall Street Journal. The searches by the FBI involved personal data that included emails and telephone numbers of private citizens.

“The court…finds that the FBI’s querying procedures and minimization procedures are not consistent with the requirements of the Fourth Amendment,” said U.S. District Judge James Boasberg written in the ruling released in partially redacted form on Tuesday (Sept. 8).

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