Statu­to­ry re­ports from the Strate­gic Ser­vices Agency show the State in­ter­cept­ed over two mil­lion calls and da­ta be­tween 2018 and 2023, but none of the re­ports re­viewed or pub­lic state­ments record­ed a con­vic­tion aris­ing from crim­i­nal pro­ceed­ings in which in­ter­cept­ed com­mu­ni­ca­tions were used.

On Fri­day, at­tor­neys rep­re­sent­ing Ra­jaee Ali and Earl Richards, who are be­ing held un­der Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders at Teteron Bar­racks, wrote to Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der on Ju­ly 8, chal­leng­ing him to jus­ti­fy their con­tin­ued de­ten­tion.

Their le­gal team—led by Criston Williams— ar­gued that the fail­ure to lay an­nu­al re­ports re­quired un­der the In­ter­cep­tion of Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Act and Strate­gic Ser­vices Agency Act pre­vent­ed prop­er scruti­ny of the in­tel­li­gence frame­work be­ing re­lied up­on by the State.