By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
The FBI has been quietly using information gathered during warrantless NSA surveillance to comb through emails belonging to foreigners to assist in investigations, the New York Times reports.
The Times discovered the FBI was gathering copies of unprocessed communications that were received without a warrant.
The Inspector General report commended the FBI for assuring that no Americans were targeted in the warrantless collection of communications.
Much of the report was redacted, making it impossible to gauge the extent of the communication gathering, the Times wrote.
The records were released after The Times filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.
