Posted on 02/18/2024 6:53:51 AM PST by Red Badger
Late last year, Congress extended Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and, in doing so, secured “the nation’s warrantless surveillance powers” until April 2024. With that month fast approaching, House Republicans have unveiled a new package to reauthorize those same powers, within limits.
As the Hill reports, the new package “focus[es] on more reforms at the FBI to address misuse of the powerful spy tool,” but the deal does not include requirements for a warrant, which is “deemed a red line for the intelligence community but nonetheless a top priority for privacy advocates in Congress.”
The new measure “would severely limit the number of FBI personnel who can query the database, forcing more oversight from some 550 supervisors or lawyers before agents can tap into the database to gain information on Americans.” The bill aims to “protect members of Congress or other high-profile officials” by requiring consent before a “defensive briefing.”
The FBI will be required to “notify a member of Congress, with some limitation, if they have been queried in the 702 database.” As members of Congress and the public may have noticed, the FBI, tasked with counterintelligence, has become a law unto itself.
Last August, an FBI squad gunned down Craig Robertson, a 75-year-old woodworker, for things he had allegedly posted online. The killing was reportedly under review by the FBI’s Inspection Division, but as of this writing there has been no investigation by Congress. As members may have noted, the FBI now operates along partisan lines.
As Newsweek headlined last Oct. 4, “Donald Trump Followers Targeted by FBI as 2024 Election Nears.” According to the report, the FBI has “quietly created a new category of extremists that it seeks to track and counter: Donald Trump’s army of MAGA followers.”
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The notion that government institutions would reign in the power of government agencies was always a bit quaint.
Bureaucracy Kills: A Lesson from Rome
Our Founding Fathers were very aware of this.
Banana Republic vs. Constitutional Republic
The administrative state, aka deep state or technocratic state, is moving to consolidate power, as the rebellion against them grows.
Ping
The description of Rome sounds familiar…
Good article.
Just about anything digital + wireless is subject to surveillance and/or hacking by just about anyone from that kid in mom’s basement, to US govt agencies to foreign govts.
Some of the stupidest things to do are posting on social media, storing info on a cloud, allowing personal info to go to places like grammerly, storing home security pics on a cloud, etc etc.
And Windows OS’s. When W10 was given away free and actually forced on some with W7 updates the word was out that it had a back door for easy spying. Seriously, why else would Bill Gate’s outfit give stuff away? He’s a major NWO player. Then W11 comes along and people are gobbling it up just like they do covid boosters for Facebook postings.
A good case in point: Many of those J6 folks were tracked down via their cell phones. Many after the fact.
And FR, right here. Many make stupid statements like wanting to do harm to some public or elected official. You can bet someone somewhere is documenting this.
OK...
Enough....
We are supposed to be represented in congress.
We are not.
My contract with the fed is the Constitution.
It is being violated.
Can I, as nothing more than a private citizen, sue the fed for not abiding by the contract?
Will I have standing?
No, I don’t need to be represented by an attorney, our government was founded on this very principal.
So, to all the freeper attorney’s out there...
Can I file suit and sue the federal government?
You can sue a ham sandwich..................
fl8r
#3 ?
My understanding of how the surveillance works is everything is swooped up like in a gigantic vacuum cleaner.
Then some sort of AI digs through all the dust particles and picks out ones that meet whatever criteria are programmed into it.
They in turn are put in a huge pile and at some point some human looks at them after watching their favorite porno videos.
;-)
I think you’ve got it.
If the human thinks the person is of interest, then that person is specifically targeted.
Even something as benign as saying “I’d like to attend a Trump rally” could get the special treatment.
Most of us on FR are targets anyway, so that statement above is really a nothing.
The real danger is rather subtle.
The vast majority of people are ignored.
However, if you become a public figure and gain a following then they will take a look at the data they have collected over the previous days, weeks, months, years and see what they can do with it.
What is happening is a “chilling effect” where folks with street smarts know it is unwise to stand out from the crowd.
Warrants and the Constitution:
This. The internet is forever, and so is the NSA. Leviathan is evil, yet we still go about our lives, and vote like it matters.
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