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Yes, retard, thanks to the last republican that was installed as president.
Just six weeks after the September 11 attacks, a panicked Congress passed the "USA/Patriot Act," an overnight revision of the nation's surveillance laws that vastly expanded the government's authority to spy on its own citizens, while simultaneously reducing checks and balances on those powers like judicial oversight, public accountability, and the ability to challenge government searches in court.
The Patriot Act increases the governments surveillance powers in four areas:
- Records searches. It expands the government's ability to look at records on an individual's activity being held by a third parties. (Section 215)
- Secret searches. It expands the government's ability to search private property without notice to the owner. (Section 213)
- Intelligence searches. It expands a narrow exception to the Fourth Amendment that had been created for the collection of foreign intelligence information (Section 218).
- "Trap and trace" searches. It expands another Fourth Amendment exception for spying that collects "addressing" information about the origin and destination of communications, as opposed to the content (Section 214).
I guess you missed the part where it was found that the FBI abused their survellience powers with regards to Trump's associates and the campaign? Read up on the Horowitz report and Crossfire Hurricane.