Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle on May 19 expressed alarm after an unsealed court order revealed the FBI misused a controversial surveillance tool to collect intelligence on U.S. citizens, including individuals suspected of involvement in the Jan. 6 Capitol breach and George Floyd protests.
The details of the inappropriately collected information were outlined by Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Judge Rudolph Contreras in a heavily-redacted court opinion (pdf) released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Friday.
