Posted on 05/10/2024 6:29:34 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
The FBI is at it again, going after US citizens with a little help from Speaker Johnson and the rest of Congress, who voted to extend the FBI’s 702 FISA powers. Remember, these are the same powers they used illegally against President Trump and his team without ever facing the consequences. Now, they’re back in action, ready to crank up the wiretaps, all thanks to our “captured” lawmakers. As a matter of fact, about 20 minutes before becoming Speaker, Mike Johnson was against the FBI’s warrantless wiretaps. But that stance took a quick turn after the feds got him alone in a locked room and really worked him over.
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WIRED: New @FBI email revelation shows MORE surveillance planned after Congress extended FISA 702 powers.
“The deputy director’s email seems to show that the FBI is actively pushing for more surveillance of Americans, not out of necessity but as a default,” says @RepZoeLofgren (D-CA). “This directly contradicts earlier assertions from the FBI during the debate over Section 702’s reauthorization.”
(Excerpt) Read more at revolver.news ...
Does anyone doubt they’d do so regardless of authorization?
Just more evidence this guy has been compromised. He is owned.
Smart man.
Just as the Russian people in the 1920s & 1930s, and the German people in the 1930s, the American people meekly and silently slip deeper and deeper into abject terror & tyranny without a significant whimper of protest...
satan is the father of lies. Johnson is one of his kids.
slanderous drivel
You don't have to actually type "slanderous drivel". Everybody assumes it every time you post. It is axiomatic.
+100; you nailed it. People criticized Trump for hiring bad people but I don’t think anyone realized how corrupt and deep the swamp really was.
I have never known one who was straight up. These types wear their religion on their sleeves thinking it’s some sort of cloaking device. Phonies and scumbags.
So, you are saying that the warrant is just a formality to them? We need something that is a little more definite about setting it up so they MUST have necessary evidence before wiretapping the average citizen. That is what is needed, especially in this age of AI. With what they have in place & the use of AI, an average law-abiding citizen could be made out to be an axe murderer.
I'm saying they will ignore the law and spy on anyone they want.
In the meantime, we need to monitor the "air" mail that occurs in this day and age.
Well-stated.
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