Their ranks are pretty thin these days. You have to be either blind or a complete stooge to believe in Barr any longer.
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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Their ranks are pretty thin these days. You have to be either blind or a complete stooge to believe in Barr any longer.
I thought you were for him? Not looking for a testy argument, but what made you change your mind? Barr and Durham are part of "The Plan."
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Congress made it more expensive by requiring transcripts of all hearings or something like that. Except there aren't any hearing, just phone calls between the court's law clerks and the mid-level lawyers at DOJ/FBI.
FISA is a total make-work sham. The wanton snooping, thousands times more of it than enters FISA process, is done without warrants. Technology enables the snooping. Paperwork won;t slow down the stuff that happens without paperwork.
The politicians pass this trash so as to have the usual lying talking points. Every time the government gets caught it promises to fix itself with more laws. This is a repeating pattern, and the government is less honest today than it has even been.
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I agree with your first statement.
The second one isn't true though. All warrants are obtained ex parte. If they are tested, they are tested after they are issued. The only challenge pre-issue is from the magistrate, and the magistrate is roughly a rubber stamp to make sure the cops articulate enough (which isn't much) to justify issuing the paperwork.
Secret courts have no place in a Republic.
Go befriend yourself in a close and intimate way, anti-Trump troll.
You literally have no right on God’s green earth to ask me that after your mask of (Trump hatred because of your higher taxes) has come off.
If Trump doesn’t veto this, after all his “No President should ever have to go through this again,” I’ll lose a lot of confidence in him.
More proof this Bushbot is a Derp State Ringer.
In office for more than a year and what has this maggot done to ckram out the DOJ?
Nothing.
No indictments, no prosecutions.
Dunham is doing a great job at nothing.
Expect a whitewash or a handful of low level droids getting snagged.
Comey walked.
McCabe walked.
The rest will walk.
If you believe this Bushbot will indict ANYBODY of consequence, you are delusional.
But they will continue to violate the Constitutional Rights of the President and every American.
2. And you avoided the question about Barr.
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