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2024-04-14 -Land of the Free

House Speaker Kills Effort To Stop The Feds From Spying On Americans Without A Warrant

[Federalist] On Friday, House Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republicans joined enough Democrats to defeat 212-212 a bill amendment requiring the federal government to obtain a warrant before spying on Americans before they’re even accused of a crime.

The GOP-controlled House failed to add an amendment proposed by Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., that would have altered Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to mandate that federal authorities obtain a warrant before surveilling American citizens. Johnson and 85 Republicans joined Democrats in killing Biggs’ proposal through a tied House vote.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-04-14 03:36|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 MTG called this one. He's a UNIPARTY bum !

Posted by Besoeker 2024-04-14 03:39|| 2024-04-14 03:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Politico - The Biden administration is making a final push to advocate for the reauthorization of government surveillance powers ahead of the final House vote on Friday.

CIA Director Bill Burns, who rarely speaks publicly about how the agency uses the program, told POLITICO in a statement that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act's Section 702 — which has caused long-running GOP infighting that forced House Republicans to punt on reauthorization three times in the past — has been key to its disruption of illegal fentanyl shipments into the U.S.

“The threat to the US posed by fentanyl and other synthetic opioids is real,” Burns said in the statement. “Section 702 is an essential tool in CIA’s mission to protect the American people from a range of threats, including illicit fentanyl trafficking. Without this vital program, CIA simply would not be able to defend our country as effectively in as many dangerous corners of the world.”

Posted by Besoeker 2024-04-14 03:46|| 2024-04-14 03:46|| Front Page Top

#3 BLAZE - A vacant chair would be better than this weak speaker

Posted by Besoeker 2024-04-14 05:46|| 2024-04-14 05:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Gateway - Outrageous! Speaker Johnson Bloviates on X About “founding principles” the Day After He Breaks Tie Vote to Support FISA Spying on Americans w/o Warrants – Gets Totally Ratioed!

Posted by Besoeker 2024-04-14 05:59|| 2024-04-14 05:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Gateway - (VIDEO) FBI Director Chris Wray Walks Away From Journalist Asking if He Wants Congress to Reauthorize FISA to Spy on Trump’s Campaign Again

Posted by Besoeker 2024-04-14 06:01|| 2024-04-14 06:01|| Front Page Top

#6 The current thinking is that the Rino's were convinced by the argument that the current use of FISA stopped some nastiness or another. This might actually be true, but if it's such a valuable tool, the Alphabet Secret Societies (ASS's) shouldn't have risked it by misusing it against 4A restrictions.

Posted by Mercutio 2024-04-14 08:20|| 2024-04-14 08:20|| Front Page Top

#7 Does getting a warrant really matter when the FBI and DOJ are willing to lie, submit knowingly false evidence… in the submission to the courts anyway? The a$$holes in the deep state can and do whatever they want.

Posted by Airandee 2024-04-14 08:33|| 2024-04-14 08:33|| Front Page Top

#8 ^ with no repercussions

Posted by Frank G 2024-04-14 09:04|| 2024-04-14 09:04|| Front Page Top

#9 Well, what are reparations for?

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-04-14 09:05|| 2024-04-14 09:05|| Front Page Top

#10 It's 'reason' for the search (contained in the warrant) that Feds do not like.

They do want to have to state a 'reason.'

Posted by Besoeker 2024-04-14 09:17|| 2024-04-14 09:17|| Front Page Top

#11 Well, a reason implies reasonability.

Can't have that...

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-04-14 09:24|| 2024-04-14 09:24|| Front Page Top

#12 go rep mt greene!

Posted by irish+rage+boy 2024-04-14 11:48|| 2024-04-14 11:48|| Front Page Top

#13 Shes a crackpot. And doesn't have "two tours."

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-04-14 12:09|| 2024-04-14 12:09|| Front Page Top

#14 Gee, aren't you/we glad they dumped Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker? (Would it have made any difference?)

Yes, MTG was spot on.

Posted by DooDahMan 2024-04-14 12:13|| 2024-04-14 12:13|| Front Page Top

#15 No she's a crackpot. Busted clock correct.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-04-14 12:20|| 2024-04-14 12:20|| Front Page Top

#16 There's definitely some merit to her crackpotted-ness.

Some guy compares her to the GOP version of AOC.

Posted by DooDahMan 2024-04-14 12:30|| 2024-04-14 12:30|| Front Page Top

#17 Sorry. "crazy as dem" makes no sense to me.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-04-14 12:32|| 2024-04-14 12:32|| Front Page Top

#18 Don't get me wrong. I don't want slick rationalizing liars like Mike Johnson either. But that's a sea change to get people to stop voting for party machine azzholes.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-04-14 12:33|| 2024-04-14 12:33|| Front Page Top

#19 And it won't change. Rabid GOPers are no worse than rabid Dems.

And TDS works both ways.

Posted by DooDahMan 2024-04-14 12:36|| 2024-04-14 12:36|| Front Page Top

#20 in my ideal world we would have several parties, one named conservative and charged with upholding amendments 1-10.

Posted by irish+rage+boy 2024-04-14 15:40|| 2024-04-14 15:40|| Front Page Top

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