Did the FBI Spy on Americans' Data?

New documents, according to The Washington Post, reveal that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) misused a database containing personal communications of Americans. The FBI conducted searches related to the names of crime victims and participants in the Black Lives Matter protests, as well as events surrounding the January 2021 Capitol riot. According to declassified documents from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the agency accessed this private data approximately 278,000 times in recent years, often without justification. Agency personnel conducted random searches during local investigations involving drugs and gangs, as well as protests in 2020 over the killing of African American George Floyd and the attack by Donald Trump supporters on the Capitol building. In one case, an agent searched the database for 19,000 donors to a congressional campaign.