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Showing Original Post only (View all)FBI Documents Expose Bureau's Big Jan. 6 'Lie' [View all]
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/jan6-fbi-social-media-privacy-black-lives-matter-1337565/In the aftermath of the Jan. 6 insurrection, the FBI told Congress and the American people that the agency had failed to prevent or fully prepare for the worst attack on the U.S. Capitol in more than 200 years in part because it lacked the authority and capabilities to more aggressively monitor social media, where much of the planning for the insurrection took place.
As FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress last summer, the FBI had circulated intelligence materials and other resources before Jan. 6, but the agency had limits in what it could and couldnt gather from social media. When we have an authorized purpose and proper predication, there are a lot of things that we do at social media and we do do, Wray said, but [what] we cannot do on social media is, without proper predication and authorized purpose, just monitor just in case on social media.
Wray added, Now, if the policies should be changed to reflect that, that might be one of the important lessons learned coming out of this whole experience. But thats not something that currently the FBI has either the authority or certainly the resources, frankly, to do. Since Wrays testimony, the bureau has sought to ramp up its online surveillance capabilities, including by entering into one of the largest social-media monitoring contracts of any federal agency.
Yet internal FBI records obtained by Rolling Stone show that, well before Jan. 6, the bureau already engaged in ongoing and widespread tracking of Twitter, Facebook, Telegram, and other social-media platforms. The new documents suggest the agency has all the authority it needs to monitor the social-media platforms in the name of public safety and, in fact, the bureau had done just that during the nationwide wave of racial justice protests in 2020. Critics of the FBI say that the bureaus desire for more authority and surveillance tools is part of a decades-long expansion of the vast security apparatus inside the federal government.
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