FBI's Misuse of Surveillance Powers Exposed in Recent Court Findings.

The FBI violated its own standards when searching a foreign intelligence database for information related to the January 6 insurrection and racial justice protests in 2020, according to a court order released on Friday. The violations, which also included improper searches of donors to a congressional campaign, predated corrective measures that started in the summer of 2021. The revelations could complicate FBI and Justice Department efforts to receive congressional reauthorization of a warrantless surveillance program. Critics have long raised alarm about unjustified searches of the database for information about Americans, along with more general concerns about surveillance abuses.