Posted on 05/26/2020 8:41:20 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
President Trump on Tuesday evening urged House Republicans to vote against a surveillance bill that will be brought to the floor this week after lawmakers reached an agreement to vote on a key provision.
“I hope all Republican House Members vote NO on FISA until such time as our Country is able to determine how and why the greatest political, criminal, and subversive scandal in USA history took place!” Trump tweeted, referring to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Trump's tweet comes after months of speculation about whether he would support the bill and less than a day before it is scheduled to get a vote on the House floor Wednesday, throwing an eleventh-hour curveball into its path.
The Senate approved legislation in a bipartisan vote earlier this month reauthorizing three expired surveillance programs under the USA Freedom Act, a 2015 intelligence reform law.
The initial version of the bill, which passed the House in a 278-136 vote in March, included some changes to the FISA court as part of a deal backed by Attorney General William Barr and supported by some of Trump's biggest allies, including Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).
But the Senate included new legal protections for some FISA warrant applications in a win for civil liberties-minded lawmakers, and the amended bill passed 80-16, forcing it to go back to the House for a second vote. The Justice Department opposed the changes, saying that they would "unacceptably degrade" the U.S. government's ability to carry out surveillance.
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Just too many guilty parities in the Congress would be exposed....FISA will be renewed and as much dirt as they can shovel over it as possible will happen. FISA-who??
VETO
Veto that SOB.
A four-letter word that begins with “F”.
Go FISA yourself you dirty deep-state GOPers.
Just practicing for the big day. LOL and SMH
I hope it does not pass but if it does the President MUST use his veto. We cannot have secret courts, period.
I don’t trust the RINOs in the House.
With this much light being shone, there are maybe enough civil libertarians on the left and right to kill this bill before it gets to POTUS.
Pelosi won’t bring up the senate version unless she’s sure her caucus is behind it in very large numbers.
This POS bill is actually more popular among Republicans.
“I hope all Republican House Members vote NO on FISA until such time as our Country is able to determine how and why the greatest political, criminal, and subversive scandal in USA history took place!”
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Both parties colluded to violate the Constitution and let an enemy agent usurper into the office restricted to natural born citizens only.
Obama is not one.
He proceeded to corrupt the entire government.
He knew he had carte blanche because the GOP was complicit in the usurpation.
What could possibly go wrong with having a national police force, with virtually unlimited power to snoop on the citizenry, with zero accountability?
Yep.
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