“The phone surveillance report offers six recommendations to help the agencies comply with their legal and policy obligations. But annoyingly it redacts statistical data about the number of investigations utilizing CSS devices in 2020 and 2021.”
DHS’s own inspector general found the Secret Service and ICE used Stingrays without following federal law or their own policy, mostly under the “exigent circumstances” excuse. ICE ignored privacy rules too. The audit then blacked out how many investigations used the devices. The penalty is six recommendations. The agencies broke the rules, and the watchdog hid the count.