Posted on 04/12/2024 9:52:20 AM PDT by Starman417
"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.Wray was testifying about threats to the country in a hearing about FBI budget requests which coincidentally took place during the discussions about renewing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)."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, I would submit, than we were on September 10th of 2001."
I don't trust him either. The FBI has been fabulous for certain "crimes"
Watching Chris Wray beg for FISA makes me wonder if he'd have more credibility had FBI not spent its resources arresting grandmothers who sang at abortion clinics, took selfies at Capitol on Jan 6, or parents who spoke at school board meetings? FBI ruined its own reputation.Wray is anything but transparent. He refuses to take a stance for much other than more money. Whenever an FBI abuse occurs he assures us that steps have been taken to address them but never is specific. When an FBI lawyer forged a document to falsely implicate guilt for a victim the lawyer got a slap on the wrist. Meanwhile, a 75-year-old Trump accountant is sent to Rikers for 5 years for a minor count of perjury. I'd have asked Wray if the FBI was interested in those in Dearborn who chanted "Death to America."
Now we are supposed to trust him again with the renewal of FISA. Speaker Mike Johnson was reluctant to vote for renewal of section 702 without a requirement for a warrant when spying on Americans but had a come to Jesus meeting in which he had an epiphany.
When I was a member of Judiciary I saw the abuses of the FBI, the terrible abuses over and over and over… and then when I became Speaker I went to the SCIF and got the confidential briefing on sort of the other perspective on that to understand the necessity of section 702 of FISA and how important it is for national security. And it gave me a different perspective.Right. Jeff Carlson had an interesting spin on that.
Intelligence Community: "Here's your file...Now about that reauthorization..."Other Republicans are also in favor
Representative Michael McCaul (R-TX), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said Wednesday on CNN’s “The Situation Room” that it would be “extremely dangerous” if the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) reauthorization is not passed.We never have any examples presented to us. Instead, blind acceptance is demanded.
Then there are those who insist on the need for a warrant when spying on Americans in violation of their 4th Amendment rights. Count me as one of them. The FBI has egregiously abused the process
SAN FRANCISCO, May 19 (Reuters) - A U.S. court found that the FBI improperly searched for information in a U.S. database of foreign intelligence 278,000 times over several years, including on Americans suspected of crimes, according to a ruling released on Friday.The Last Refuge makes a great case for denying renewal of Section 702.The decision by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court was released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).
The searches occurred in the course of U.S. crime investigations including the Jan. 6 Capitol riots and protests after the 2020 killing of George Floyd, the court said.
5) Approximately 30% of those 3.4 million search queries were outside the rules and regulations that govern warrantless searches, what the politically correct government calls “non-compliant searches.”6) That means more than 1 million searches of private documents and communication of Americans were illegal and outside the EXISTING rules and/or laws.
You really think a process where 10,000 violations were recorded in 2016, and has now exploded to 1,000,000 can be reformed?
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
I heard it passed. Conservatives did get some of what they wanted though.
The new speaker of the house voted against the amendment to require a warrant for Americans. That POS has to go.
McCarthy with a mortgage says the FBI told him some super secret scary stuff to make him flop. Tells us what it is we can take it, faggot.
Why didn’t they share that information with the entire “Gang of 8” in Congress that is cleared for that information?
Or blackmail information is only shown to the target of the blackmail?
Yes, I was just going to post this.
Good question and answer. What a sniveling coward.
“I heard it passed. Conservatives did get some of what they wanted though.”
Sure- Congress gets a cutout.
You sound so gullible.
“The new speaker of the house voted against the amendment to require a warrant for Americans. That POS has to go.”
He’s corrupt. He knows exactly what he’s doing.
U.S. Congressman Mike Johnson
https://mikejohnson.house.gov/about/
“With two decades of previous experience in Constitutional law, Mike previously served on the House Judiciary Committee, and as chairman of its Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government. He also served as a leader on the Select Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, the House Natural Resources Committee, and the House Armed Services Committee.”
"No warrant, no FISA renewal. Not just no. HELL NO!"
We're not going to see corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress impeach and remove Wray any more than it's going to impeach and remove Biden or Mayorkas imo.
In fact, Congress's election year “dog and pony shows” aside, corrupt Congress is arguably protecting these crooks imo.
In other words, its up to us Democratic and Republican Trump supporters to effectively "impeach and remove" Congress in November by replacing them with new, Trump-supporting patriot lawmakers so that hopeful Trump 47 is not a lame duck president from the first day of his second term in office.
Actually I take a different stance on these issues, When Trump is Re-Elected he should PROSECUTE every last one as regular citizens, if the President does NOT have immunity for Official actions taken in office then NOBODY DOES and they can all rot in prison
Apparently it’s Hell YES!
Time to get the hook for Johnson. He’s got to go.
Like that last “scary stuff” they hyped was Russia wanting to put a nuclear weapons platform in orbit.
DUH! Hadn’t they seen “Space Cowboys”?
Might as well. Give the gavel to Hakeem Jeffries.
Of all the issues, this is number 1,000,000. Perhaps it’s you’re main issue.
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