HERE IT IS!
Well done President Trump.
Awesome...now lets shine a light on FISA abuse rather than talk about Joe Scarborough. Please.
““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.”
LOVE to see him keep hammering our domestic enemies.
Although we do know how and why, and are waiting for delivery of justice, so we can be safer from those in 2025 who want us dead.
DOJ recommends veto because they have to jump through more procedural hoops to get their warrant.
FISA and all vestiges of the old Patriot Act must be eliminated entirely.
Good!
If the GOP-e wants this trash, lets see them try and Override the leader of the Party.
“...a sponsor of the measure, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.).”
While it is nice to have the current DOJ weigh in, just knowing Zoe is a sponsor is all one needs to know about the need to veto.
Wow, it’s not often you get pleasantly surprised in politics. I supposed we still have to wait for it all to play out, but so far so good.
Freegards
I’m not sure I understand what’s going on here. It sounds like Trump and Barr are opposing the current bill for different reasons. Trump thinks the process is still too powerful and subject to abuse. Barr thinks it has been watered down too much.
Bias was blatantly and obviously present. That statement needs to be proven.
Just more verbal bilge meant to deflect.
Ah ... FReepers who only read the headlines vs FReepers that actually read the excerpt. More popcorn please.
If we are to remain a free society...the deep state MUST BE exposed first before reauthorizing.
My reading of this is that the DOJ wants Trump to veto the FISA bill because it contains too many new safeguards.
In my opinion, FISA is beyond reform.
In the aftermath of 9/11, we granted the Federal government extraordinary surveillance powers, in the belief that those powers would be used exclusively to protect us from terrorism. Within a decade these powers were used for partisan political spying, and ultimately to sabotage the peaceful transfer of power to a new President.
This is the greatest abuse of power in the history of our Republic.
As distressing as the abuse of power is the reaction of our institutions to it. Instead of acknowledging the abuse and reacting quickly to punish all involved, the DOJ, the FBI, the Inspectors General, the media and the FISA court itself have all worked to delay revealing and excuse the government spying on its political enemies.
Those institutions can never again be trusted with the powers that FISA gave them.
Indeed. Let’s see what GOP House and Senate members vote for this
awful bill.
I keep thinking that I’m missing something. Doesn’t the article say that Justice doesn’t like it because it cracks down on them too much (by requiring warrants)?
Oh sure. That bandaid fixes everything.
Nuke the Star Chamber.
Veto it, stop funding it, tear it down and salt the ground it stood on.
FISA would not have prevented 9/11, and did nothing to stop Ft. Hood, Boston, San Bernardino or Orlando.