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Top FBI Official Urges Agents to Use Warrantless Wiretaps on US Soil

9m · Security, Spoken · 09 May 10:00

An internal email from FBI deputy director Paul Abbate, obtained by WIRED, tells employees to search for “US persons” in a controversial spy program’s database that investigators have repeatedly misused. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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