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Speaker Mike Johnson Pulls Competing FISA Bills in Another Blunder
Breitbart ^ | 12/12/2023 | SEAN MORAN

Posted on 12/12/2023 7:36:43 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

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Things that make you go hmm.
1 posted on 12/12/2023 7:36:43 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Kill FISA before it kills us.


2 posted on 12/12/2023 7:45:02 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Come on Johnson. This is not even a hard decision. Warrantless spying on US citizens needs to end in all shapes and forms. Not only does it need to end, but there needs to be tough personal liability for each spying event - say 10 years minimum in prison and $1m fine minimum - for each person involved in performing, requesting, authorizing, using such data.


3 posted on 12/12/2023 7:46:28 AM PST by rigelkentaurus
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To: ChicagoConservative27

At least be honest. Call it “DISA”.


4 posted on 12/12/2023 7:47:03 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They (the oligarchs who whispered in Johnson’s ears) don’t want section 702 changed at all.

So it’ll be renewed “temporarily” in the “must pass” NDAA until April, and then be renewed again, etc.

It should be allowed to expire at the end of the month. That is the only thing that will bring REAL pressure for reform.

But the oligarchs can’t have that.


5 posted on 12/12/2023 7:53:26 AM PST by cotton1706
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To: ChicagoConservative27
The headline is silly.

The SOTH is not a king or emperor. He answers to the House members, so anything he does in terms of getting bills on the floor is largely a reflection of what Congress -- especially in his own party caucus -- is looking to pass.

6 posted on 12/12/2023 7:55:20 AM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I always found this odd....If FISA activity is going on, why at all is the FBI involved? That’s the CIA’s responsibility.


8 posted on 12/12/2023 8:00:48 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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Exactly right. The fact that the corrupt former intel and DOJ types (Clapper, Rosenstein) are pushing for reauthorization should scare the hell out of Republicans in Congress, but it does not. Without the FISA BS, the FBI, DOJ and intel communities can still get the job done, but they would have to do it Constitutionally, which would mean they would have to work — and citizens rights would be more protected.


9 posted on 12/12/2023 8:02:18 AM PST by falcon99 ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I say keep ‘blundering’ until the end of the year. Let it expire. Don’t try to ‘improve’ it. It needs to go away. Government bureaucrats have proven they can’t be trusted with that authority.


10 posted on 12/12/2023 8:04:03 AM PST by curious7
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The ONLY conversation or action Johnson needs in this case is to end the FISA court. Anything less is a direct attack on Americans.


11 posted on 12/12/2023 8:10:01 AM PST by dware (Americans prefer peaceful slavery over dangerous freedom)
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“I say keep ‘blundering’ until the end of the year. Let it expire. Don’t try to ‘improve’ it. It needs to go away. Government bureaucrats have proven they can’t be trusted with that authority.”

Absolutely. There is no other logical option.


12 posted on 12/12/2023 8:10:45 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: falcon99

“The fact that the corrupt former intel and DOJ types (Clapper, Rosenstein) are pushing for reauthorization should scare the hell out of Republicans in Congress, but it does not.”

Because 9-11 was yesterday and Bin Laden is still on the loose. That’s their story and they are sticking to it forever.


13 posted on 12/12/2023 8:15:08 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Oh, deary, deary me. Could it be that like with the DeSantis campaign there are moles in his group, too? Moles that sabotage whenever they get the chance?

This is not incompetence. It is malice.

If you doubt that, do you still doubt that the WuhanFlu was made in a lab? Do you still think Russia did ally with DJTrump?
Is water wet in your world?


14 posted on 12/12/2023 8:16:24 AM PST by bobbo666 (Baizuo, )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

FTA:... he is “either unwilling, unable, or disinterested in making big decisions:”

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“disinterested” ? Someone needs a dictionary.


15 posted on 12/12/2023 8:28:30 AM PST by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: curious7

Good advice.


16 posted on 12/12/2023 8:29:56 AM PST by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: blackdog

No....just stop going after Americans aT HOME...without a warrant.


17 posted on 12/12/2023 8:31:31 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: ping jockey

Mind your language, please.


18 posted on 12/12/2023 8:31:51 AM PST by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: curious7

iMPROVING IT IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO. tO NOT MONITOR OVERSEAS “OPERATORS” IS NOT IN OUR INTEREST.


19 posted on 12/12/2023 8:34:10 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: ping jockey

“It’s VERY important to be able to spy on citizens guilty of disagreeing with the deep state assholes.”

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Congress seems to think that if it gives the Deep State what it wants it won’t spy on THEM.


20 posted on 12/12/2023 8:34:39 AM PST by Starboard
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