[vivenne]

We can afford to.

[JoSixChip]

Garbage, the gubment has proven time, and time again they can not be trusted with these tools. Hell, there aren’t even any consequences when are caught red handed using them for corruption.

[Night Hides Not]

How about “Hell no” Chuck? I don’t trust you guys.

[Skywise]

No. No more mass surveillance.

Those who give up liberty for the sake of a VERY little security deserves neither.

[Pontiac]

Three, it levies criminal penalties on those who willfully violate querying standards.

This assurance is worthless.

Every warrant has to be sworn to on penalty of perjury.

When was the last time you ever heard of a detective being prosecuted for perjuring the affidavit for a warrant.

With all of the mistakes on warrants that led to the death of an inocent killed serving a false warrant has a detective ever been prosecuted for a false warrant affidavate?

[ClearCase_guy]

Most of the time, after the fact, we hear that some guy was “on their radar scope”.

So, the government has everybody under surveillance, just because, and they rarely end up stopping the nutcases. This is not a good bargain.

[Gunslingr3]

Section 702 is the most transparent and most scrutinized intelligence collection in history.

The lies just get more and more brazen.

2020–2021 (Major 2022 FISC Opinion): The FISC highlighted "persistent and widespread" FBI compliance problems with querying standards. The government reported over 278,000 noncompliant queries of Section 702 data (many involving U.S. persons). Examples included queries related to people arrested at protests (e.g., Black Lives Matter), donors to a congressional campaign, journalists, and others without proper justification (i.e., not reasonably likely to yield foreign intelligence or evidence of a crime). The court expressed concern about the scale and FBI's application of the querying standard.

2022 Incidents (2023 FISC Opinion): Additional violations included non-compliant queries of a U.S. senator, a state senator, and a state judge.

2024–2025 Tool/Workaround Issues: The FBI used an "advanced filter function" (and similar tools) that effectively enabled U.S. person queries without treating them as such. This bypassed tracking, auditing, supervisory/attorney approvals, and other RISAA safeguards. The DOJ discovered this in 2024; it took months to disable, and historical data on the scope/compliance was unavailable. The FISC and oversight bodies criticized this as circumventing rules.

March 2026 FISC Opinion: The court renewed 702 certifications (allowing the program to continue) but flagged ongoing deficiencies with "filtering" tools used across the intelligence community (FBI, CIA, NSA) for processing queries of Americans' data. These issues persisted despite prior fixes. The opinion remains largely classified, with limited public details via reports (e.g., NYT coverage).

This is about spying on Americans without a warrant. Anyone trying to convince you otherwise simply cannot be trusted.

Before Trump was compromised:

[HYPOCRACY]

Eff Grassley. POS has been sucking off the American teat for longer than I’ve been alive.

[jroehl]

It is just an attack mechanism used by democrats, against republicans.

[nitzy]

Hey guys...please look a couple articles down about the Jake Lang story.

He is a white guy who got arrested for making “terroristic threats” for saying if they jury didn’t get the Anthony case right then there would be other ways of getting justice. His comments were picked up out of a sea of comments of black people saying that it was time to kill whites. They were actually calling for violence.

How can you not see that any new law, any spying authority, any new restriction or regulation, etc....is going to be used against YOU and not the people who you were told it would be used against when you approved of it?

These spying authorities aren’t going to be used against “terrorists”. They are going to be used against white Christians who attempt to resist their replacement.

Wake up. We have been abandoned.

[blackdog]

FISA never helped finding Somalians in Minneapolis sending millions of our tax dollars to Somalia every week for three years.

Fog God's sake, let that cancer die, withered in sunset.

[PGR88]

LOL. The first appeal in their argument is to Taylor Swift

They truly think Americans are sheep

[delchiante]

Grassley would be in Gitmo with the rest of the 535+ coup co-conspirators if I had a say..

Their enabling of FISA abuses would be part of that long train of abuses and usurpations that would end their careers as old guards for govt of the Swamp, by the Swamp, for the Swamp.

But I’m not nice.

[Resolute Conservative]

Paying to listen to her caterwaul for hours is the real threat to your health and safety.

[Skwor]

It needs to die and should have never even been passed. There is never a grantee of safety in life, and this crosses the line of safety vs freedom.

They just can’t give up any power, they refuse to accept they work for the people, and we are not their subjects, we are free and equal citizens!

Warrants are stupid easy to get, the ability to circumvent such a minor protection shows how much they really don’t care about our freedoms.

[jeffc]

Awwww...

Our government overlords don't want to lose their power over us.

So sad, too bad.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

Senator Grassley, if FISA Section 702 is that important to reauthorize, then including the SAVE ACT should be added.

[Jeff Vader]

how about NO?

[SharpRightTurn]

Let it lapse and then throw a party for freedom.

[lastchance]

Why do I have a feeling certain very important points are being left out in Grassley’s plea?