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    <b><font size="+2">Adam Schiff Accused of Protecting a Suspected FBI
        Surveillance Dragnet</font></b><br>
    Dell Cameron<br>
    <b>GIZMODO</b><br>
    Yesterday 9:47AM<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://gizmodo.com/adam-schiff-accused-of-protecting-a-suspected-fbi-surve-1844617109">https://gizmodo.com/adam-schiff-accused-of-protecting-a-suspected-fbi-surve-1844617109</a><br>
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      <blockquote>"Nearly a dozen civil liberties organizations have
        accused Congressman Adam Schiff and other Democratic leaders of
        purposely undermining the online privacy of U.S. citizens and
        immigrants; possibly in an effort, they say, to conceal the
        unlawful surveillance of Americans’ web browsing activity by the
        FBI’s national security branch."<br>
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    <b><font size="+2">Civil Liberties Letter: Has Government’s Dragnet
        Internet Surveillance Returned?</font></b><br>
    Project For Privacy & Surveillance Accountability<br>
    8/6/2020<br>
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    <a
href="https://www.protectprivacynow.org/news--updates/civil-liberties-letter-has-governments-dragnet-internet-surveillance-returned">https://www.protectprivacynow.org/news--updates/civil-liberties-letter-has-governments-dragnet-internet-surveillance-returned</a><br>
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    <a
href="https://www.protectprivacynow.org/uploads/7/3/3/8/73384497/surveillance_fact-finding_letter_aug2020.pdf">https://www.protectprivacynow.org/uploads/7/3/3/8/73384497/surveillance_fact-finding_letter_aug2020.pdf</a><br>
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          float: none;">"Sean Vitka, senior policy counsel at Demand
          Progress, told<span> </span></span><em style="position:
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          float: none;"><span> </span>that he believes that Adam Schiff,
          chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,
          reworked the language in a recent reform bill that would
          actually “allow for domestic surveillance on everybody.”"</span><br
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            the aftermath of Congress’s allowing Section 215 – the
            “business records” provision allowing for warrantless
            surveillance of Americans’ private information held by
            businesses – to sunset.</li>
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          float: none;">"“After an intense lobbying campaign by
          congressional champions of the intelligence community to
          reauthorize Section 215, they have fallen mysteriously quiet
          and apparently satisfied,” Schaerr said. “This alone should
          arouse suspicion.”"</span><br>
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      <font color="#b3b3b3"><i>Dr. Robert Mathews, D.Phil.<br>
          Principal Technologist &<br>
        </i><i>Distinguished Senior Research Scholar</i><i><br>
        </i><i>Office of Scientific Inquiry & Applications (OSIA)</i><i><br>
        </i><i>University of Hawai'i</i></font><br>
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