Get a warrant!

Twitter/X ^ | April 10 | Sen. Mike Lee

[RandFan]

@BasedMikeLee

Don’t fall for the hyperbole.

The sky is not about to fall.

We must not allow for a “clean”reauthorization of FISA 702.

We must continue to fight until we can attach a warrant requirement to FISA 702.

Get a warrant!

[RandFan]

What do you think Freepers?

[YouGoTexasGirl]

I say defeat it.

Trump wants it defeated.

[linMcHlp]

Mike Lee - Dec. 2023:

I’d love for that mysterious “GOP source” to identify his or her name and cite statutory authority for the proposition that the FISA extension in the NDAA couldn’t be used to extend 702 collection until well into 2025.

Relevant statutory text within FISA, which became law through an amendment enacted by Congress in 2018, supports precisely the opposite conclusion.

A 702 certification by the FISA court (“FISC”) allows 702 collection to continue even after the expiration of 702, as long as the FISC issued the certification while 702 was still in effect.

Thus, the FISC could issue another year-long certification on April 11, 2024, and thereby allow 702 collection to continue under that certification until April 2025.

So not only does this language show we’re looking at a 16-month extension (rather than an extension of only four months), it also demonstrates that the 702 extension in the NDAA is completely unnecessary.

Why, then, would the intelligence community and its acolytes in Congress be so obsessed with passing this extension in the NDAA if it’s not necessary?

One must consider the possibility that it’s because they can get 16 months out of this — delaying this important, contentious, and necessary debate until well after the 2024 election — while convincing most members of Congress that they’re extending 702 for only four months.

[hardspunned]

What’s there to think? We all saw it in action when FISA was used to topple a sitting president. It will be used again or is being used to formulate CrossFire Hurricane 2.0.

[RandFan]

National security hawks (some Freepers) like FISA and fall for the hyperbole i.e terrorists wont be caught.

Its always been an abomination and abused just like some warned. “Foreign”.. lol..

[hardspunned]

I remember pooh poohing Rand Paul long, long ago when he told us how this travesty of justice would be abused.

Like I say, we all saw it happen. There is no excuse for being duped again.

[RandFan]

And his Dad...

We’ve come full circle with this

I hope people see it.

[BipolarBob]

Too many rubber stamp liberal judges. Defeat it . . with extreme prejudice.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Did not support it before.

Have not changed my mind.

[RandFan]

Because of the Fourth Amendment implications?

Good on you though for opposing it. A lot of people were uneasy about it but after 9/11 they have swallowed it

Patriot Act for example

We have come full circle

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Every time the federal government, (or any government for that matter) adds to it's powers or loosens the restrictions on it's power it rarely ends well.

I am just a cynic.

Or a realist.

Never have been quite sure which.

[Dutch Boy]

They also never get punished for exceeding the powers they do have. No one person has been changed for the +240K illegal searches. Apparently, violating constitutional rights of huge numbers of people is less a crime that stealing a pack of gum or jay walking.

[joe fonebone]

Senator Lee,
Please show me in that pesky constitution thingie, where 702 is even remotely in compliance.
Dump it!!!

[curious7]

Let it expire. And never give the feddies that kind of authority, ever again. They’ve proven they can’t be trusted with it.

[zeugma]

no. the real solution is to simply allow it to expire.Anything else will be hijacked.

[Jane Long]

no. the real solution is to simply allow it to expire.Anything else will be hijacked.

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AGREE!!

Especially when these tyrants carve out special *exemptions* for themselves!!

[zeugma]

Patriot Act for example

I was soundly criticized here when they were ramming that abortion of a law through. Lots of 'Freepers' support the police state.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Why have a government if it is but despotic as it has been.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Yeah, that is another thing.

Abuse of power by government bureaucrats and officials should be punished but it is not. At best five to ten years down the road you may squeeze a few bucks out of the government but no punishment for the CPS worker who kidnapped your child or the police officer who arrest you for sharing a meme.

[Republican Wildcat]

“The Warrant!”