Government Targeted 106,000 Plus Foreigners in 2016 Under Section 702, Says DNI Report
More than 106,000 foreigners located overseas were intelligence targets in 2016 under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), said the Director of National Intelligence in a transparency report released Tuesday. The number of targets last year swelled…
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by more than 12,000, a 13 percent hike from 2015. The report said the FBI queried Section 702 surveillance information once in 2016 for evidence of a crime unrelated to foreign intelligence. DNI said 60 orders were issued last year for the use of pen register and trap and trace devices -- which capture dialing, routing, addressing or signaling information -- for foreign intelligence purposes under Title IV of FISA. The orders targeted 41 people: 23 non-U.S. persons and 18 U.S. persons. The 2016 figure is about 30 fewer than in 2015 and 71 fewer than in 2013.