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What's wrong with this bill?

1. It allows the Justice Department to obtain FISA warrants on classes of people, for example, millions of Verizon customers. Constitutionally a warrant must contain the name of a specific person, and what the law enforcement agency is allowed to search and search for.

2. The current FISA court has shown that they have no problem with abusing their warrant authority. They issued warrants for spying on the Trump campaign based on obviously self-conflicting information in warrant applications.

Yes, the bill is bipartisan. So what? Veto it, and let the FISA court's extra-jurisdictional authority expire.

1 posted on 03/12/2020 7:03:59 AM PDT by nagant
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To: nagant

Good idea.


2 posted on 03/12/2020 7:06:26 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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Oops, here’s the link:

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/487094-paul-lee-urging-trump-to-kill-house-fisa-deal


3 posted on 03/12/2020 7:07:12 AM PDT by nagant
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Oops, here’s the link:

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/487094-paul-lee-urging-trump-to-kill-house-fisa-deal


4 posted on 03/12/2020 7:07:22 AM PDT by nagant
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Don't approve any bill until people are prosecuted for already breaking the law.

Sh*t talks.

5 posted on 03/12/2020 7:08:05 AM PDT by budj (Combat vet, 2nd of three generations.)
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To: nagant

No Republican who votes for this blatantly unconstitutional bill should claim to be a conservative when running for office this election year. They should be defeated.


6 posted on 03/12/2020 7:10:23 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: nagant
No FISA re-authorization while McCabe, Comey, Brennan and Clapper are free men.
Give them 20 year terms in the Federal pen. and we'll consider it....
7 posted on 03/12/2020 7:12:08 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again".)
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To: nagant

You convinced me.


8 posted on 03/12/2020 7:12:50 AM PDT by libertylover (Socialism will always look good to those who think they can get something for nothing.)
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It will be VERY depressing if President Trump signs anything that reauthorizes FISA.


9 posted on 03/12/2020 7:13:29 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: nagant
Yes, the bill is bipartisan.

"The definition of bipartisan is that a bigger than usual deception is underway."

- George Carlin


10 posted on 03/12/2020 7:14:34 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: nagant

It still has to go through the Senate (where Paul and Lee will have a vote) and, should there be major differences in the versions, it would go through a conference committee and a re-vote before it even gets to Trump’s desk. So this is all a bit premature.

I do think Trump will have a hard time approving any FISA bill that doesn’t have safeguards to prevent them from doing what was done to him. Just my hunch.


11 posted on 03/12/2020 7:16:53 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (The Democrats - Unafraid to burn in Hell.)
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To: nagant
Yes, the bill is bipartisan. So what? Veto it, and let the FISA court's extra-jurisdictional authority expire.

I hope our President listens to your advice.

This 'fix' is a scam, and does nothing that will change fbi/doj/fisa behavior.

Nothing in this bill will send any more bad guys to jail nor even scare them from doing again what they did to the The President.

12 posted on 03/12/2020 7:19:14 AM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE THE MOOSELIMB, TERRORISTS, NOW!)
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Yes, and fire that useless POS Deep-State operative Bill Barr while you are at it.

Or does someone want to tell me again about all the indictments that are just around the corner?


13 posted on 03/12/2020 7:22:37 AM PDT by Junk Silver ("It's a little hard to herd people onto trains when they're shooting at you." SirLurkedalot)
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How can Mike Lee be so right on bill of rights issues, yet dead wrong, even treasonous on H1-Bs and betraying American workers on behalf of Indian lobbyists? Is he mentally ill?


16 posted on 03/12/2020 7:42:15 AM PDT by montag813
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“Bipartisan” bills are usually the worst for the country, since they are almost all left-wing in nature and designed to push that agenda.


17 posted on 03/12/2020 7:44:29 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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Put the unconstitutional Secret court out of its misery and the problems of its misconduct and danger are solved


18 posted on 03/12/2020 8:09:41 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE).)
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Trump will veto it.


19 posted on 03/12/2020 8:32:36 AM PDT by Signalman
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