Posted on 03/11/2020 7:47:11 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Attorney General William Barr voiced his support on March 11 for the passage of the House bill reauthorizing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
The attorney general said that the bill plugs the gaps in the current law, which allows for the surveillance abuses identified in the DOJ inspector general report on the department’s spying on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
“The bill contains an array of new requirements and compliance provisions that will protect against abuse and misuse in the future while ensuring that this critical tool is available when appropriate to protect the safety of the American people,” Barr said in a statement.
Barr said the bill includes several provisions put forth by himself and FBI Director Christopher Wray in response to the inspector general’s report. The FBI is already implementing a range of reforms in response to an order by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
President Donald Trump told Republican lawmakers earlier this month that he would not support a reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) without reforms to prevent the abuses that took place during the 2016 presidential election. It is not clear if the reforms the House FISA bill includes would be satisfactory to Trump, who has said he wants to make sure that the surveillance operation used on his campaign doesn’t happen to a future candidate or president. The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
A pair of conservative Republican lawmakers close to the president slammed the House bill on March 11, leaving open the possibility that Trump may eventually oppose it.
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Shut it down and lock all the ________s up.
BOHICA. You can bet the Deep State will use the Wu Flu hysteria to cram all kinds of garbage through the swamp. And we can forget the fake “investigations”, too.
Why is Barr allowed to advocate a bill that Trump says he opposes?
End the secret court!
in before the Barr cheerleading section.
It’s all part of that marvelous, psychotic Plan some KooKs claim to have intimate knowledge of.
Just like the income tax was passed in 1913 during Christmas break.
It’s like a frickin’ bad news parade.
Happy Mardi Gras!
The "abuses" were law breaking with the actors identified. Prosecute the actors and problem is fixed.
This whole issue is a joke. Edward Snowden and Julian Assange demonstrated that the U.S. government conducts extensive surveillance on all forms of communication. Nothing in a FISA court or a law passed by Congress will do anything to put a stop to that.
Sold out again. Gee, I wonder why I’m not surprised.
Who didn’t see this coming, raise your hand. Now slap yourself hard because you’re an idiot.
The abuses will continue until the corruption improves.
A clean FISA renewal, even with as yet unstated reforms, would destroy all leverage to get to the bottom of the attempted coup leaving Durham to decide who, if any, of the players get prosecuted. Show us convictions before proceeding further.
Good cop bad cop?
That’s an excellent question!
The Deep end of this pool seems bottomless sometimes.
..... All of this is Sooooo Last month ...... Nobody cares about this stuff any more ....... We are all deathly afraid of the Trump Virus now .......
Of course he does. The swamp does what the swamp is
Never let a crisis go to waste
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