Rep. Thomas Massie Calls Out House Speaker Mike Johnson for Voting in Favor of FISA Warrantless Spying
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| May 5 | Rep. Massie
Rep. Thomas Massie Calls Out House Speaker Mike Johnson for Voting in Favor of the FISA Warrantless Spy Program "Mike Johnson did not vote on other amendments that day...He went out of his way to be the deciding vote on not having warrants...He went on the news and said 'I've been to
the SCIF. I saw things in the SCIF and it changed my mind on this.' Here's the problem with that story, I was in the SCIF with him...They could not give us one example of how they had solved or intervened in an act of terrorism by using...
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Ron Paul: FISA exchanges real liberty for phantom security
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Orange County Register ^
| April 15, 2024 | Ron Paul
House Speaker Mike Johnson betrayed liberty and the Constitution by making a full-court press to get a “clean” reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Act through the House. Section 702 authorizes warrantless surveillance of foreign citizens. When
the FISA Act was passed, surveillance state boosters promised that 702 warrantless surveillances would never be used against American citizens. However, intelligence agencies have used a loophole in 702, allowing them to subject to warrantless surveillance any American who communicated with a non-US citizen who was a 702 target. Intelligence agencies could then also conduct warrantless surveillance on any...
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U.S. SENATE TONIGHT *In Session* (FISA)
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Cspan ^
| April 19 | US SENATE
The Senate will continue work on House-passed legislation to reauthorize FISA Section 702 warrantless surveillance authority to 2026. Current
authority expires tonight (Friday) at midnight.
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Senate reaches deal to pass FISA reauthorization by deadline
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The Hill ^
| 04/19/24 9:51 PM ET | BY ALEXANDER BOLTON
After hours of stalemate, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced a deal Friday evening to vote on a package of amendments to a House-passed bill to reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act’s (FISA) warrantless surveillance program, putting it on a trajectory to pass before a midnight deadline. The
expanded surveillance powers authorized by FISA’s controversial Section 702 were due to expire at the end of the day Friday and appeared to be headed for a lapse as senators wrangled over a package of amendments to require warrants to review the communications of Americans swept up in the FISA database...
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McCaskill: Trump Doesn’t Know What FISA or Obamacare Are
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Breitbart ^
| 04/19/2024 | Pam Key
MSNBC contributor Claire McCaskill said Friday on “Morning Joe” that former President Donald Trump does not know what the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) or the Affordable Care Act dubbed Obamacare were. McCaskill
said, “I don’t think people realize. We always talk about the intelligence community like it’s some kind of big group of folks somewhere. I think people think of spy movies and stuff. The vast majority of people on the intelligence committee are either veterans or active military. They are really hardworking, smart patriots that are trying to keep our country safe. It’s just bizarre to me that...
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How the FISA Reauthorization Bill Could Force Maintenance Workers and Custodians To Become Government Spies
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Reason ^
| 4.19.2024 | Eric Boehm
"This bill would basically allow the government to institute a spy draft," warns head of the Freedom of the Press Foundation.Tech companies and First Amendment groups are calling attention to a provision in a domestic spying bill that they say would significantly expand the federal government's power to snoop on Americans' digital
communications—potentially by forcing employees of private businesses to become informants. The Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), a global trade group that represents major tech companies including Google and Microsoft, is calling for last-minute changes to the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act (RISAA), which could get a final...
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A Paul-Massie alliance fight FISA’s renewal. They’re running out of time
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mcclatchydc ^
| April 18 | BY DAVID CATANESE
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul formed a noisy alliance with Rep. Thomas Massie this week that scrambled Congress’ plans to renew the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act without additional privacy protections for Americans and threatened the six-month tenure of the Republican speaker of the House. The libertarian duo scored a substantive victory in the
House on Wednesday when the chamber passed legislation that would force federal agencies to obtain a court order to buy the online data of U.S. citizens from service providers. Massie, a Northern Kentucky Republican, was joined by Rep. James Comer in supporting the “Fourth Amendment is Not For...
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SEN. RON WYDEN (D-OR) sounds alarm over FISA in the Senate
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Twitter/X ^
| April 18 | Ron Wyden
@RonWyden As the longest serving member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I can say with confidence that this bill is the biggest expansion of the government's warrantless surveillance power since the PATRIOT Act. I'm still doing everything in my power to stop it passing the Senate.
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BREAKING: RINOS WIN – AMERICANS LOSE: FISA 702 Again Passes House by Vote of 259-128 – Here are The 117 RINOs Who Voted for Warrantless Spying on Americans
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The Gateway Pundit ^
| April 15, 2024 | Jordan Conradson
The House of Representatives on Monday passed a Motion to Table the Motion to Reconsider H.B. 7888, which passed on Friday to renew FISA 702 and allow warrantless surveillance of innocent Americans. This was a betrayal of Americans. ..... Snip..... The final vote on Section 702 of the Foreign Surveillance Act was
273-147 on Friday, with 126 Republicans in favor of betraying the American people. On Monday, the legislation was brought back to a vote on a motion to reconsider, requested by Rep. Laurel Lee (R-FL) and demanded by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna in a recorded vote. However, 117 Republicans...
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House Votes at 6:30 PM Monday Night to Kill FISA Spying on Americans without Warrant – Call Your Representative Today!… Number Below
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The Gateway Pundit ^
| April 15, 2024 | Jim Hoft
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) has not given up following Friday’s disappointing vote by RINOs, Democrats and Speaker Johnson. Rep. Luna sent a letter to all 435 members of Congrees on Monday urging them to protect civil liberties, follow the US Constitution and fix the current legislation to make it constitutional. Rep.
Anna Paulina Luna sent this letter to all 435 members of Congress urging them to follow the US Constitution and correct the FISA bill in a vote this evening in the US House of Representatives. Luna asks her colleagues: “Is the 118th Congress going to set the precedent...
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FISA Bill: GOP Needs To Win Back Trust To Win In November
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AMAC Newsline ^
| 14 Apr, 2024 | David P. Deavel
“We have two parties, and only two,” the legendary journalist and conservative political activist M. Stanton Evans liked to say: “One is the evil party, and the other is the stupid party. I’m
very proud to be a member of the stupid party. Occasionally the two parties get together to do something that’s both evil and stupid. That’s called bipartisanship.” I couldn’t help but think of that line on Friday when the House passed the reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) on Friday. 149 Republicans and 126 Democrats voted in favor of this act that...
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Rand Paul: 'Speaker Johnson, the leader of the Republicans, voted with the Democrats on FISA and on the spending package'
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Twitter/X ^
| April 14 | Maria
@RandPaul .@SpeakerJohnson was incredibly wrong to vote w/ Dems against the 4th amend. when he killed the FISA warrant requirement and wrong to give in to the Dems spending demands. As
I see it now, I'm not so sure there's a difference between him being in charge and Dems being in charge.
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Speaker Johnson Bloviates on X About “founding principles” the Day After He Breaks Tie Vote to Support FISA Spying on Americans w/o Warrants
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The Gateway Pundit ^
| April 13, 2024 | Jim Hoft
An amendment was proposed by Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), which would have required a warrant for the FBI to conduct surveillance on Americans under FISA. The floor vote resulted in a tie vote of 212-212. Speaker
Mike Johnson (R-LA) then broke the deadlock by casting the tie-breaking vote against the amendment, a move criticized by grassroots supporters. Johnson betrayed Americans and defied the US Constitution. Worse yet, less than 24 hours later Mike Johnson posted on X about America’s founding principles — after giving the regime power to spy on any American at will! The man is either clueless or...
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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna Initiates Unprecedented Move to Stall FISA Bill — Demands New Vote After House Uniparty Approves Bill Granting ‘Deep State’ the Power to Spy on Americans Without Warrant
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The Gateway Pundit ^
| April 12. 2024 | Jim Hoft
Representative Anna Paulina Luna has called for a rare procedural move to delay the Senate’s consideration of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Section 702 extension, pushing for a new vote in the House of Representatives. This move comes in the wake of the House’s approval of a bill that further empowers
the ‘Deep State’ by allowing it to surveil Americans without a warrant. On Friday, the House cast a vote of 273 to 147 in favor of extending Section 702 of FISA, a provision originally enacted in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. This legislation permits U.S. agencies to...
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BREAKING: Speaker Mike Johnson just inexcusably voted against the American people and his voters by casting the tie-breaking vote 212-212 to defeat a FISA 702 amendment requiring a warrant to spy on Americans.
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X twitter ^
| Apr 12, 2024 | Charlie Kirk
BREAKING: Speaker Mike Johnson just inexcusably voted against the American people and his voters by casting the tie-breaking vote 212-212 to defeat a FISA 702 amendment requiring a warrant to spy on Americans. This is how the Constitution dies. Brought
to you by the House GOP.
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House passes FISA reauthorization bill after previous GOP setback
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ABC News ^
In a 273 to 147 vote, lawmakers renewed Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which is set to expire on April 19, through 2026. It
now heads to the Senate. Section 702 allows the U.S. government to collect electronic communications of non-Americans located outside the country without a warrant. It came under scrutiny among some lawmakers on both sides of the aisle and civil liberties groups because it sometimes results in the collection of data on Americans who are in contact with those surveilled individuals.
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No warrant, no FISA renewal. Not just no. HELL NO!
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Flopping Aces ^
| 04-12-24 | DrJohn
"I don't trust you."So said Rep Mike Garcia to FBI Director Christopher Wray. Garcia accused Wray of standing relatively silent and passive about "the biggest national security threat" to the U.S. – referring to the southern border — and refused to give "little credence" in the director’s ability to do his job
or lead the "brave agents" below him. "I don’t trust you to protect us," Garcia said. "I think because of your inability to lead and also shape the policies and the DOJ and at the White House, we are now in a more precarious position than we were,...
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Bill Barr blasts Trump for call to kill FISA: ‘Crazy and reckless’
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The Hill ^
| April 10, 2024 | Alexander Bolton
Former Attorney General Bill Barr on Wednesday denounced former President Trump’s exhortation for Congress to kill the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) as “crazy and reckless” and warned there will be “blood on people’s hands” if the intelligence community’s surveillance authority expires and there’s a terrorist attack on the United States. “I
think it’s crazy and reckless to not move forward with FISA. It’s our principal tool protecting us from terrorist attacks. We’re living through a time where those threats have never been higher, so it’s blinding us, it’s blinding our allies,” Barr told The Hill in an interview. “I...
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The 19 Republicans Who Stood Up And Killed FISA
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Twitter/X ^
| April 11 | Kristin Wilson (CNN)
Burchett Rosendale Good Crane Milla Gosar Cloud Gaetz Mace Luna Boebert Norman Steube Bishop Roy Biggs Ogles Perry Higgins
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Politico Playbook: Johnson's FISA bill fails again, Ukraine vote next week!
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My Inbox ^
| April 10 | Politico
INCOMING — A Ukraine aid bill (details very much TBA) is expected to come to the House floor for a vote next week, multiple outlets are reporting today. If
it passes, the legislation could provide a crucial lifeline for Kyiv’s war to repel Russia — and the far-right revolt against Speaker MIKE JOHNSON could boil over. But first Johnson has a different imbroglio on his hands: A procedural vote for the reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is expected to fail on the House floor today, as a handful Freedom Caucus members derail the process over privacy concerns. Reps....
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