Posted on 05/07/2025 11:36:54 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) on Wednesday proposed legislation to eliminate the intelligence community’s surveillance tools that “erode” Americans’ civil liberties.
“For over two decades, rogue actors within our U.S. intelligence agencies have used the PATRIOT Act to create the most sophisticated, unaccountable surveillance apparatus in the Western world,” Luna said in a written statement to Breitbart News.
Luna introduced the American Privacy Restoration Act, a bill that would repeal the USA PATRIOT Act, a sweeping September 11th, 2001 terrorist bill that drastically expanded government surveillance.
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Definitely more popular. I was of the opinion even back then it was a bad idea.
Ironic.
Now look to see her involved in some sort of scandal in the coming months... /s
Yes it was, and if you spoke out against it the tards would bellow “If you don’t let the ghettopotamus stick her blue glove up your butt at the airport, then the terrorists win.”
I was in the group of “traitors” who warned about how the surveillance powers would be abused. That was back when Rush was still trying to justify BushII’s obvious lack of conservatism. A very strange time.
Excellent timing. Trump has been using FISA to monitor illegals and MS-13 gang members. The deMS-13 can take this opportunity to strike a blow to Trump’s unconstitutional deportations. See how easy it is?
EC
The charge made by the left against the PATRIOT Act is that it was rogue legislation. That was a complete inversion of the truth. The PATRIOT Act was an all-hands review in the wake of 911. Every federal agency with any involvement at all in law enforcement, intelligence or counterterrorism was involved. So were the relevant agencies in all the states, academic experts, the major tech companies that dealt in the relevant technologies, and anyone else you can think of. It was studied to death, lawyered to death, debated at great length, modified many times, and duly passed by Congress.
One might not like some of the results, but the one thing you can say without question is that it was NOT rogue legislation.
The tip of the iceberg for a lot of conservatives was the fact that many of the 911 conspirators were in the U.S. illegally (mostly overstaying their visas iirc), several had had minor brushes with law enforcement (e.g. traffic stops), and a couple were on terrorist watchlists. But Bill Clinton's newly installed firewalls prevented domestic law enforcement from sharing information with the FBI and counterintelligence. There was a lot of speculation on the right that this had been motivated by Clinton's own entanglements with foreign entities, particularly the illegal Clinton/Gore-DNC fundraising with its many foreign donors; it's possible that the Clinton crowd wanted to short circuit easy crosschecking, and an attempt to get a warrant could be cut off by the Clinton FBI and DOJ. (As happened to so many of the BillyJeff investigations, which got stalled because Janet Reno was playing mob lawyer, with the coverup as Job 1.) But for whatever reasons, there they were: the LEOs had several of the 911 jihadis, already on the terrorist watchlist, but the LEOs couldn't connect the dots.
But more fundamentally, technology had rocketed ahead since the last top-to-bottom review, the post-Watergate Church Committee. There were myriad issues involved, but I recall especially such things as the ACLU types arguing after 911 that if Mohammed al Mohammed bin Mohammed popped out of his cave in Afghanistan and made a quick telephone call (quick because he was not a dummy and knew perfectly well that drones were overhead) -- the call being monitored in real time and with a missile armed drone having already marked the target and waiting for the command to fire -- we couldn't listen in on the call and identify his contacts because the call might be pinged from satellite to satellite to various ground relay stations, one of which might be in the U.S., and that was enough of a nexus to classify interception of the call as domestic surveillance, which would require trooping to a judge for a search warrant. And on and on in that vein, because the ACLU is now in the criminal protection racket at home and the terrorist protection racket abroad.
I have the sense that the Bush administration dotted the i's and crossed the t's but that the Obama people blew through most of the safeguards. The illegal surveillance of Donald Trump and Trump associates starting in 2015 is the casus belli that we remember today, but the Obama misuse of electronic surveillance and misuse of individuals' personal information for political purposes started much earlier and was much more pervasive than that. Obama weaponized the IC.
So yes, the area needs a thorough review. But I still want the good guys to be able to zap the Mohammed al Mohammed bin Mohammed types when they venture out of their caves. And people on the terrorist watch list who get involved with local law enforcement shouldn't be protected because the ACLU doesn't think LEOs should be able to check. The systems are all computerized. It is as easy to bounce names off the terrorist watch list as it is to check license plates and registrations, and see if the car has been stolen.
Showboating.
Knowing what we know now, we never needed the Patriot act, we just needed a competent FBI and CIA and National Intelligence Agency.
I would like to see it gone as well, but if it were to somehow happen the countdown to the most egregious false-flag in history would start immediately. They’d have to teach people that they MUST be allowed to spy. Or else THIS is what happens.
The fact that the IC, DOJ and the FBI got weaponized against Trump doesn’t mean that there aren’t serious underlying issues that need to be soberly addressed. Completely gutting the intelligence community and the FBI, and repealing the entire PATRIOT Act, are not solutions.
The real solution to the criminal misuse of these capabilities by the Obama people — and the Clinton people before that — would have been, and still is, to relentlessly pursue those responsible and hold the criminals to account. That would mean going after the Obama anti-Trump cabal personally. But that hasn’t been done.
Trump did very little in his first term to address the problem. In fairness, he was paralyzed by the RussiaGate and impeachment circus — which was likely the reason the democrats kept these going with such fanaticism.
But Trump hasn’t done anything so far in his second term to see justice done. Comey, Clapper, Brennan, and the other principle conspirators should be in the crosshairs. But they’re now running in the clear and there seems to be no appetite to go after them. That’s the problem.
Don’t unleash twitter. Unleash lawfare. Make their lives hell. At this point, nothing is going to happen unless someone breaks and talks. And nothing is being done to apply pressure.
Best thing I’ve heard all day. A two-fer. Give us our freedom and privacy back, and embarrass the crap out of Bush 43.
Many of us were opposed to it!
Correct. It was quite the free for all for a while.
Yes! Patriot Act is just a nice title for a deepstate nefarious tool.
I hope she can do it.
**Don’t unleash twitter. Unleash lawfare.**
Too many of them. I’d go after Hunter Biden. The deal would be this: Go live in a 3rd world $hit hole for the remainder of Trumps term. Live like a king but just don’t come back for 3+ years. If they got the goods on the others do the same.
702 would have been eliminated except for Pence of Schiff Mike Johnson
Yeah, that was then.
This is now.
I, for one, would enjoy watching Anna Paulina Luna strip. I’d also like to see the Patriot Act blown out of the saddle. I fear I will not see either.
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