Posted on 03/15/2020 4:39:55 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Attempts to rein in the government’s ability to spy on Americans fell flat after Rep. Adam B. Schiff intervened to protect the types of powers that the FBI used to go after the Trump campaign in 2016.
Mr. Schiff, California Democrat and chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, ran roughshod over House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, New York Democrat, whose panel had control over the battle to reform the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, said advocates on both sides of the aisle.
The power struggle created an awkward moment in which Mr. Nadler canceled the markup of his own bill just minutes before it was scheduled.
FISA allows U.S. intelligence agencies to meet with judges behind closed doors and explain why spying is needed without anyone to question their evidence. The process has come under scrutiny since revelations last year confirmed that the FBI abused FISA to surveil Trump campaign figure Carter Page as part of its probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Liberal civil libertarians and conservative defenders of President Trump united in an attempt to curb the government’s powers with FISA reforms. Instead, Mr. Schiff, at the urging of the intelligence community, pushed for smaller tweaks to the law.
As a result, the House passed a bill that few lawmakers liked, that advocacy groups on the left and the right condemned, and that Mr. Trump hinted he would veto. Three critical FISA provisions lapsed when the Senate failed to take action Friday on the bill.
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Trump must veto this FISA renewal until
1. Real reforms are made.
2. Those responsible are punished.(Prison for many)
Bones, Is he dead ?
Psst...pass it on. Schiff is a Russian agent.
what was the name of the dead child
he was caught raping?
where is the list of people MURDERED to cover
up his murder and rape?
I hope a Chinaman coughs right in his face.
Schiff needs to be pounded into eternity.
He’s been far too quiet lately, knew he was up to no good.
Who can make legal, executive, civil war against it? Who is strong enough to stand in the way DC? Who can force the beast back into the chains of USConstitution?
Can you draw out Leviathan [beast] with a fishhook
or press down his tongue with a cord?
Can you put a rope in his nose
or pierce his jaw with a hook?
Will he make many pleas to you?
Will he speak to you soft words?
Will he make a covenant with you
to take him for your servant forever?
—Job 41
His true colors keep getting revealed. Maybe this will make more people pay attention to the despot behind the moron.
Schiff is back in town? He must have escaped the Gillum/Dyson meth and bendover party in Florida by the thread of his panties.
Too bad. Maybe he caught AIDS/HIV virus as well as the Coronavirus. Nothing is too good for this psychopathic traitor.
Comes November, when the Republicans take back the House, let’s put Schiff for Brains on the “Schiftt Pile of History”.
I’m sure Graham will get right on this..../LOL
Trump should veto the bill AND issue an executive order that ALL use of the FISA court shall be prohibited until such time as Congress has ameliorated ALL issues regarding misuse and illegal surveillance.
We need a FISA reform where lying scumbags like Schiff and Nadler play no part in fixing the corruption that they caused and now thrive on to benefit their cronies.
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