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Speaker Mike Johnson Claims Classified Briefing Made Him Flip-Flop on Spy Powers Reform
Breitbart ^
| 04/11/2024
| SEAN MORAN
Posted on 04/11/2024 1:59:25 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Wednesday explained his apparent flip-flop on a controversial surveillance law, saying that he now favors limited reforms after receiving a classified briefing.
Speaker Johnson was asked by reporters why he changed his opinion on reforming Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a controversial surveillance law that is meant to target foreign adversaries, but often surveils Americans’ communications without a warrant.
Johnson this week came out against a warrant requirement for Section 702 and moved not to allow an amendment that would have barred intelligence and law enforcement agencies from purchasing Americans’ private information through third-party data brokers. This is considered a run around the Fourth Amendment protection against warrantless searches.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: briefing; fakenews; fakespeaker; fisa; flipflop; gopestablishment; hebelievesdeepstate; johnson; privacy; rino; rinos; spy; surveillance; uniparty; vacatethechair
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Well how about that
To: ChicagoConservative27
So he fell for their lies, then.
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posted on
04/11/2024 2:00:34 PM PDT
by
Lurker
( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
So you’re that easy to con, Mike?
I’m thinking we made a mistake on you. We need a fighter, not another BIG govt wimp.
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posted on
04/11/2024 2:02:08 PM PDT
by
Bullish
(...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Send him home to “spend more time with his family”.
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posted on
04/11/2024 2:02:37 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: ChicagoConservative27
He must have received a briefing that revealed some abuses of the act. He must have missed the congressional hearings
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posted on
04/11/2024 2:02:50 PM PDT
by
Spok
To: ChicagoConservative27
Johnson is a player for the other side.
He wants all of your data and phone calls, all the time, vacuumed up and searchable, as with no warrant, it becomes an unlimited stream of private data from us to the US Government.
It’s pretty sick, actually.
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posted on
04/11/2024 2:02:58 PM PDT
by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: Lurker
He’s not his own man. Can’t think logically.
Another cheek turning fake Christian.
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posted on
04/11/2024 2:03:18 PM PDT
by
Fledermaus
(Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
That’s because the intel agencies flat out lied to him about the extent and severity of the events necessitating 702’s continuation and the FISA/FISC Star Chamber. LIED!
The only foreigners the FBI and CIA are ‘tracking’ are the ‘terrorists’ coming across our Southern border and that isn’t for fear of terror; it’s for fear of not getting enough illegal voters registered in time for this November.
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posted on
04/11/2024 2:03:45 PM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: ChicagoConservative27
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posted on
04/11/2024 2:04:08 PM PDT
by
jimwatx
To: ChicagoConservative27
"Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Wednesday explained his apparent flip-flop on a controversial surveillance law, saying that he now favors limited reforms after receiving a classified briefing."
A classified briefing showing Mikey what the Feds have on him.
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posted on
04/11/2024 2:05:14 PM PDT
by
mass55th
(“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Blackmail is such a powerful Junta security tool.
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posted on
04/11/2024 2:05:42 PM PDT
by
Shady
(The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
To: ChicagoConservative27
“after receiving a classified briefing.” From whom?
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posted on
04/11/2024 2:05:54 PM PDT
by
Fungi
To: ChicagoConservative27
The classified briefing included photographs of Speaker Johnson in, shall we say, compromising positions...
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posted on
04/11/2024 2:07:41 PM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
Comment #14 Removed by Moderator
To: ChicagoConservative27
right. can i have Boehner back? what’s the difference?
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posted on
04/11/2024 2:08:39 PM PDT
by
dadfly
To: ChicagoConservative27
If it’s so damned scary then how about a briefing for the American public.
To: ChicagoConservative27
How did we ever exist before the patriot act?
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posted on
04/11/2024 2:09:14 PM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
To: ChicagoConservative27
that “classified bull$%it”is really parful stuff...
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posted on
04/11/2024 2:09:23 PM PDT
by
mo
("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
To: ChicagoConservative27
What has mikely done? Blackmail is a terrible thing. If they want you they can get you. Even if they have to make it up.
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posted on
04/11/2024 2:10:21 PM PDT
by
Sequoyah101
(Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
To: mo
Yeah, that’s right up there with “if you could only know what we did for you…”.
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posted on
04/11/2024 2:11:23 PM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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