The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) has been used to unconstitutionally spy on American citizens.

[YoursTruly]

Thomas Massie, during a House Judiciary committee hearing, discussing warrantless spying on Americans (FISA 702). The constitution is plain and simple. If the government is going to spy on Americans, it needs a warrant. So far, every president since 702 has been enacted, have supported it. Along with the majority of congress, on both sides of the isle.


The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) has been used to unconstitutionally spy on American citizens.
Yesterday in House Judiciary Committee GOP, we discussed ways to reform FISA, but I pointed out we must also reform or repeal other constitutionally flawed statutes and executive orders.

 

[1srelluc]

Spying on Biden's newly minted "Americans" might be a damn good idea. American born, not so much.

 

[Manonthestreet]

Who'd a thunk

 

[TNHarley]

Thomas Massie should be president. He would actually drain the swamp and put America first.

 

[Lesh]

Thomas Massie, during a House Judiciary committee hearing, discussing warrantless spying on Americans (FISA 702). The constitution is plain and simple. If the government is going to spy on Americans, it needs a warrant. So far, every president since 702 has been enacted, have supported it. Along with the majority of congress, on both sides of the isle.


The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) has been used to unconstitutionally spy on American citizens.
Yesterday in House Judiciary Committee GOP, we discussed ways to reform FISA, but I pointed out we must also reform or repeal other constitutionally flawed statutes and executive orders.

Libs warned you 20 years ago that you were not gonna like the Patriot Act

 

[22lcidw]

Libs warned you 20 years ago that you were not gonna like the Patriot Act

The Patriot Act got 357 votes from the House and 98 votes from the Senate.

 

[Lesh]

The Patriot Act got 357 votes from the House and 98 votes from the Senate.

Doesn’t change what I said

 

[Lockback]

Libs warned you 20 years ago that you were not gonna like the Patriot Act

And yet it's the Democrats more than anybody who've used it to invade Americans' privacy. That's because they're fascists at heart and hypocrites.
But you already know that, right?

 

[YoursTruly]

Libs warned you 20 years ago that you were not gonna like the Patriot Act

I didn't listen to the libs then or now. I didn't like the patriot act, then or now.

 

[YoursTruly]

And yet it's the Democrats more than anybody who've used it to invade Americans' privacy. That's because they're fascists at heart and hypocrites.
But you already know that, right?

They both use this unconstitutional crap. Stop playing.

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

Thomas Massie, during a House Judiciary committee hearing, discussing warrantless spying on Americans (FISA 702). The constitution is plain and simple. If the government is going to spy on Americans, it needs a warrant. So far, every president since 702 has been enacted, have supported it. Along with the majority of congress, on both sides of the isle.


The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) has been used to unconstitutionally spy on American citizens.
Yesterday in House Judiciary Committee GOP, we discussed ways to reform FISA, but I pointed out we must also reform or repeal other constitutionally flawed statutes and executive orders.

Anyone else remember how outraged our government was when it discovered that it was being spied on while it was spying on others?

https://rollcall.com/2014/03/11/feinstein-cia-spied-on-intelligence-committee-full-speech

 

[Lesh]

I didn't listen to the libs then or now. I didn't like the patriot act, then or now.

Well there was quite a bit of right wing support for it on these boards

Like nearly unanimous

 

[Lockback]

They both use this unconstitutional crap. Stop playing.

The Biden and Obama administrations turbocharged it.
Biden was the worst offender ever. Period.

 

[g5000]

The Biden and Obama administrations turbocharged it.

Explain.

Provide links.

Guess who actually loves a surveillance state.

 

[g5000]

A student in the United States legally on a visa writes a piece critical of Israel's genocide in Gaza for her college newspaper.

She is immediately seized off the street, literally, and deported.

A college newspaper.

A.

College.

Newspaper.

That's the kind of police state we live in under Trump, folks.

That's how fearful Donald Turmp is.

 

[g5000]

Today:

Warnings Mount in Congress Over Expanded US Wiretap Powers​

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Testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, four witnesses—a former US attorney, a conservative litigator, a civil liberties advocate, and a tech-policy analyst—urged Congress to impose a probable-cause warrant requirement on searches of a vast government database built under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)—or allow the authority to expire when it comes up again for reauthorization this spring.

“Section 702 was sold to Congress as a vital tool to target foreign adversaries,” said Brett Tolman, a former US attorney in Utah and ex-Senate Judiciary Committee counsel. “We were given high-stakes assurances … that it would not be used improperly against honest Americans. I was in the room when they represented it would not be abused. That was a lie.”

“For decades and with increasing regularity,” he added, “it has been the government’s permission slip for warrantless spying on Americans.”

The stakes are especially high now under the Trump administration, because both the legal backdrop and political landscape have shifted against unchecked surveillance at the same time that executive power is being exercised more aggressively. A federal court has now held that warrantless “backdoor searches” of Americans’ Section 702 data are Fourth Amendment searches and were unconstitutional in at least one FBI case. At the same time, President Donald Trump has installed loyalists such as attorney general Pam Bondi, FBI director Kash Patel, and director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, all of whom publicly back 702 while facing deep skepticism from Democrats and some Republicans over the politicization of law enforcement.

Members at Thursday’s hearing accused the White House of already centralizing vast troves of federal data and issuing directives that target groups based on political beliefs, raising fears that a tool built to monitor foreigners could be repurposed against domestic opponents if Congress does not lock in judicial checks before 702’s April 20, 2026, sunset.

 

[Lockback]

Explain.

Provide links.

Guess who actually loves a surveillance state.

I can't and won't look up all the hundreds of articles I've read in the last few years exposing the Biden administration's incredible criminal streak of using FISA to surveil J6 folks, Congressmen, you name it ... anybody who wasn't on their side.
Do your own damn homework.

 

[g5000]

I can't and won't look up all the hundreds of articles I've read in the last few years exposing the Biden administration's incredible criminal streak of using FISA to surveil J6 folks, Congressmen, you name it ... anybody who wasn't on their side.

So, basically, you're full of shit. Ipse dixit.

Do your own damn homework.

Argument from ignorance - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Lockback]

So, basically, you're full of shit. Ipse dixit.

Argument from ignorance - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Basically, you only read left-wing sources so you're ignorant about just how unbelievably corrupt your ******* Biden twats were.

 

[g5000]

Basically, you only read left-wing sources so you're ignorant about just how unbelievably corrupt your ******* Biden twats were.

You poor thing.