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CIA Wants Congress to Expand Top-Secret Eavesdropping Program To ‘Fight Against Fentanyl Crisis’
Gateway Pundit ^

Posted on 04/08/2024 4:56:37 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), along with other members of the U.S. intelligence community, are pushing for Congress to expand Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 in order to fight the ongoing fentanyl crisis.

According to the Brennan Center of Justice, Section 702, “Authorizes the government to collect the communications of non-Americans located abroad without a warrant from a court. While this surveillance is supposed to target foreigners, it inevitably sweeps in Americans’ private phone calls, emails, and text messages too.”

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However, CIA officials believe in its current form, Section 702 limits the intelligence community from targeting everyone involved in the fentanyl trade overseas and are advocating lawmakers to expand Section 702 so U.S. spies will have more liberty when it comes to going after criminals engaged in the fentanyl trade.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cia; civilrights; drugs; fentanyl; fisa; privacy; spying; surveillance
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"However, CIA officials believe in its current form, Section 702 limits the intelligence community from targeting everyone"

This sentence without the fentanyl fig leaf is probably more accurate. The open border and non existent enforcement has exacerbated the crisis.

And true to form, the self induced crisis is now used to try and seize more power.

1 posted on 04/08/2024 4:56:37 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: Tench_Coxe

Hey, CIA, are you law enforcement?

No?

Request denied.


2 posted on 04/08/2024 5:00:50 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: Tench_Coxe

They could fight the fetanyl crisis by dropping some bunker busters on mexican druglord compounds.


3 posted on 04/08/2024 5:03:06 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: imabadboy99

For Sure!! Just shut down the f’n border!


4 posted on 04/08/2024 5:06:57 AM PDT by SMARTY ("A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." Tennyson)
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To: Tench_Coxe
are pushing for Congress to expand Section 702

it's a good time for those who aren't familiar with the Hegelian dialectic to take a crash course.

5 posted on 04/08/2024 5:08:54 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: Tench_Coxe

ROFLMAO

So, they REALLY want us to believe that they self-policed themselves and didn’t use 702 for anything on the southern border.

Additionally, they REALLY want us to believe that they now are subject to Congressional oversight.

C’mon, man.


6 posted on 04/08/2024 5:10:31 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Tench_Coxe

The CIA needs to lose powers, not gain them. They have abused the Constitution and should be held accountable.


7 posted on 04/08/2024 5:18:58 AM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Never let a crisis go to waste.


8 posted on 04/08/2024 5:19:09 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perfection is impossible. But if you pursue perfection...you may achieve excellence.)
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To: silent majority rising

We’ll have to restore our republic first.


9 posted on 04/08/2024 5:19:57 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: logi_cal869
"Additionally, they REALLY want us to believe that they now are subject to Congressional oversight."

Much like Lankford's monstrosity of a border bill, which sought to codify the Biden/Mayorkas invasion, I suspect the urging of an expansion is to make what they are already doing look 'legal'.

As far as "oversight", its becoming a sure bet to assume that the opposite of Congress conducting oversight of thr IC is actually in operation. Think Jeffery Epstein, P Diddy, or Tim Burchett's comments last December.

10 posted on 04/08/2024 5:23:06 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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They import millions of criminals as an excuse to spy on everyone.
That's it.
They are not interested in catching criminals. They want to keep tabs on all of us.

11 posted on 04/08/2024 5:26:21 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Tench_Coxe

I suppose just closing the border is too damned simple and makes too much damned sense.

L


12 posted on 04/08/2024 5:29:27 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Fentanyl? OK, now you’re the Central Immigration Agency. Go to Texas and guard the border instead of poking through Americans’ communications.


13 posted on 04/08/2024 5:41:48 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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To: Tench_Coxe

the ____________ crisis, which they created [insert crisis du jur].


14 posted on 04/08/2024 5:46:39 AM PDT by xoxox
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To: KarlInOhio

Central Invasion Agency


15 posted on 04/08/2024 5:47:12 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Tench_Coxe

BS, the CIA is the biggest drug dealing and facilitation organization there ever was.


16 posted on 04/08/2024 5:54:44 AM PDT 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: Tench_Coxe

If they actually cared a rip about fentanyl the border would not be wide open.
For all we know they invented the stuff.


17 posted on 04/08/2024 6:12:06 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Tench_Coxe

CIA may not operate within the borders.

Go to hell.


18 posted on 04/08/2024 6:25:32 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (DEI = Didn't Earn It!)
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To: Tench_Coxe

This has happened because American citizens have all become fat, dumb and lazy.

The citizenry assumes that Congress intuits its will and legislates accordingly.

Your legislators regard you as dumb beasts of the field to be patronized at best.

Freedom takes effort!


19 posted on 04/08/2024 6:44:15 AM PDT by old school
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To: Tench_Coxe

I find this hilarious, the CIA is the Drug Cartels, the only reason they want this info is so they can go after those that don’t fall in line and think they can start their own Drug Dealing business...They need to Eliminate the Competition is all.


20 posted on 04/08/2024 6:48:48 AM PDT by eyeamok
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