Hey Cornyn. Did the Patriot Act stop the Garland shooters from making it to Garland, d-weed?
Sorry , John. USA survived 200 years without massive electronic spying on our citizens. Repatriate Obama’s Muslims to their own countries and End the spying on Americans We do not agree to give up our liberties just so Obama can import all his anti- American Islamonazi comrades from every damned krapistan on earth to “transform” us.
‘FBI agents cant point to any major terrorism cases theyve cracked thanks to the key snooping powers in the Patriot Act, the Justice Departments inspector general said in a report Thursday that could complicate efforts to keep key parts of the law operating.
Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz said that between 2004 and 2009, the FBI tripled its use of bulk collection under Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which allows government agents to compel businesses to turn over records and documents, and increasingly scooped up records of Americans who had no ties to official terrorism investigations.’
From the Washington Times article: FBI Admits No Major Cases Cracked with Patriot Act Snooping Powers
‘Speaking at an American Law Institute event this week, FBI Director James Comey warned that a PATRIOT Act sunset would severely affect his agency. The FBI relies heavily on the soon-to-expire provisions of the law to obtain specific business records from library records to gun ownership data and wiretaps for multiple devices, he said.
If I lose these tools, its a huge, huge problem, Comey said. We use [Section 215 to obtain specific records] fewer than 200 times per year, but when we use it, it matters tremendously.
But not for terrorism, and the Patriot Act was specifically passed to deal with terrorism.’
My two cents...If they hadn’t abused it, hadn’t lied when confronted, they would probably be trusted enough to keep it.
Running Op Jade HELM as a mosque targeting exercise would be WAY superior to expecting the NSA to do any good.
What ... an ... idiot. This should disqualify him from public office.
He forgot to say what her really thinks ... “it’s never been more important to control Americans”.
Pass the Patriot Act ... kill a Republic.
Drop it, Cornball. The answer to security in our homeland is not taking privacy from citizens and conducting body cavity searches of grandmothers at our airports. It’s kicking the mohhamedans out of our country; they make up 99.999% of the terror threat, not the citizens whose rights you are sworn to protect.
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
Ben Franklin
Cornyn is one of those little men George Orwell talked about who enable totalitarianism.
The Patriot Act should have named the Totalitarian Act.
It has NEVER lead to the capture of a single terrorist.
All it has done is expand the police state.
Is Hasan alive? Was HE detected?
Why are his supporters still in power?
Is ISIS thriving in Mexico and S.A?
Why are their supporters still in power?
Did the Boston Terrorist even need a Passport?
Why were they not stopped?
Why are his supporters still in power?
Having US suffering their spying and political interference while they are busy supplying, if not creating our enemies is a crime against the American People as proscribed by our Constitution and it must be stopped.
John Cornyn is the poster child why the 17th amendment was not a good idea.
Once in office he has more campaign money than god.
Cornyn never fails to disappoint. He always delivers for the uniparty.
How about stopping the abandonment of perfectly good military equipment to ISIS? Just an oversight? I think not.
These guys are BS, they are duping the public via a corrupt and compromised media to make the public believe that the federal government is acting in the people’s interests.
John Cornyn - establishmant republican, supporter of the police state. Doesn’t have to worry about reelection for a while, so you get to see his true authoritarian beliefs.
McConnells boot licker and shoe shine boy.
Unfortunately in Texas, we have an epidemic of Rinos politicians
Translation: We Washington Timeservers want to keep an eye on the American people...
...oh, and maybe an occasional Moslem terrorist, too, if we have the time and resources.