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Here are some of the technologies law enforcement can use to surveil protesters Jenna McLaughlin June 8, 2020, 11:56 AM WASHINGTON — When Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz sparked confusion last month by asserting that the National Security Agency, the nation’s electronic spying organization, was involved in monitoring domestic protests, his remarks drew renewed attention to surveillance of protesters. The governor later backtracked on the claim, which would have been unlikely, since the NSA’s remit is collecting foreign digital communications and signals. Yet it is true that the government is using a wide range of capabilities and technologies to monitor the growing nationwide protests, which were set off by last month’s killing of George Floyd, an African-American man, in police custody. Attorney General William Barr recently announced he’d be activating a broad network of FBI Joint Terrorism Task Forces in all 56 field offices, multi-agency partnerships that investigate terrorism that predat