[Twitter] Regardless of your political party... this should be a RED ALERT: Buried in the House intelligence committee’s Section 702 “reform” bill, which is schedule for a floor vote as soon as tomorrow, is the biggest expansion of surveillance inside the United States since the Patriot Act. 1/11
Through a seemingly innocuous change to the definition of “electronic service communications provider,” the bill vastly expands the universe of U.S. businesses that can be conscripted to aid the government in conducting surveillance. 2/11
Under current law, the government can compel companies that have direct access to communications, such as phone, email, and text messaging service providers, to assist in Section 702 surveillance by turning over the communications of Section 702 targets. 3/11
Under Section 504 of the House intelligence committee’s bill, any entity that has access to *equipment* on which communications may be transmitted or stored, such as an ordinary router, is fair game. What does that mean in practice? It’s simple… 4/11
Hotels, libraries, coffee shops, and other places that offer wifi to their customers could be forced to serve as surrogate spies. They could be required to configure their systems to ensure that they can provide the government access to entire streams of communications. 5/11
Even a repair person who comes to fix the wifi in your home would meet the revised definition: that person is an “employee” of a “service provider” who has “access” to “equipment” (your router) on which communications are transmitted. 6/11
The bill’s sponsors deny that Section 504 is intended to sweep so broadly. What *is* the provision intended to do, and how is the government planning to use it? Sorry, that’s classified. 7/11
At the end of the day, though, the government’s claimed intent matters little. What matters is what the provision, on its face, actually allows—because as we all know by now, the government will interpret and apply the law as broadly as it can get away with. 8/11
This isn’t a minor or theoretical concern. One of the FISA Court amici posted a blog to warn Americans about this provision. I can’t overstate how unusual it is for FISA Court amici to take to the airwaves in this manner. We’d be foolish to ignore it. 9/11
If you don't want to have to worry that the NSA is tapping into communications at the hotel where you're staying, tell your House representative to vote NO on the House intelligence bill this week. More on the many flaws with that bill here: 10/11
Instead, they should vote for the Protect Liberty & End Warrantless Surveillance Act, a bill passed by the House Judiciary Committee on a 35-2 vote that would reauthorize Sec. 702 with strong reforms to protect Americans’ privacy and civil liberties. 11/11
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"there is no control or option to clear downstream caching"
Caching 'at the edge of the internet" is a GLOBAL enterprise ungoverned by US law. The shit is out there until purged and can be loaded by a simple keyword searching webcrawler.
"Joseph P. Nacchio was the only head of a communications company to demand a court order, or approval under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, in order to turn over communications records to the NSA." Feb 2001.
[JudicialWatch] When you consider, there were 958K current voter registrations in the Dist Of Columbia, and now they just removed 103k, which is over 10%.
Then add to it less than 400K actually voted in 2020.
It kinda makes you wonder if more purging is needed.
Either way: Trump, like EVERY GOP candidate since 1964, lost DC by a landslide. So why would DC need to cheat any way?
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Yes. Electronically removed in such a way as they can re-appear right before the next election.
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12/12/2023 7:29 Comments ||
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So why would DC need to cheat any way?
"It's the only way to be sure..."
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
12/12/2023 7:30 Comments ||
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So why would DC need to cheat any way?
See the story of the frog and scorpion. It's in it's nature.
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I doubt that this addresses the class of voter in the DC metro area that votes in their home state as well. The vast majority of double voters throughout the country consider themselves to be entitled to vote twice because they have interests in both locations. Entitlement is fundamentally UnAmerican.
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12/12/2023 9:45 Comments ||
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I think the Dems pump up the numbers in their secure strongholds because it won't be checked and it helps the popular vote numbers so that even if they lose they can claim they won.
BLUF:
[Gateway] As we reported in our headline, the FBI-GBI report exonerates Rudy Giuliani — AND — it implicates FBI Director Chris Wray.
The "Investigative Findings" or conclusion of the FBI, GBI, and GA SOS report omits the most important accusations!
The Gateway Pundit was the first to report that the election workers, Ruby Freeman, Shae Moss, Ralph Jones, and others, were shoving stacks of ballots through the machines numerous times. There is a video of Ruby taking a stack of ballots and shoving the ballots through the machines three times. There is a video of Ralph shoving that same stack of ballots through his machine.
After a three-year investigation — Chris Wray and the FBI DO NOT EVEN MENTION THIS in their Investigative findings.
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We all watched the video and saw the cheating. The legal process is just an inspection for termites. Anyone who comes down on the wrong side of truth needs replacement, as we remove the dictatorship of the Administrative State.
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One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was given by a friend's father. He said, "Never play the other guy's game."
Only way to do that in this instance is to close down the game.
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Meanwhile the judgement phase in Guiliani's case started this week. He was found responsible for defaming two GA poll workers.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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