# Reverse Targeting Reverse targeting means selecting a non-U.S. person abroad when the actual purpose is to obtain the communications of a known person in the United States. [[FISA Section 702|Section 702]] prohibits that maneuver. ## Notebook evidence PDF page 8 of [[Scanned_20260730-1830]] gives a strong plain-language version: the government may not target a person outside the United States when the purpose is to get information on a person inside it. ## Boundary Reverse targeting concerns the purpose of the initial targeting decision. It is not identical to incidental collection or to a later U.S.-person query. Those acts can raise separate legal questions without proving that the original foreign target was a pretext. ## Source - [[Scanned_20260730-1830]], PDF page 8.