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Trump's pick for CIA Director, John Ratcliffe, joined Mike Pompeo in lobbying for the renewal of FISA warrantless surveillance over the past year.
X ^ | 11/12/24 | Michael Tracy

Posted on 11/13/2024 7:29:43 AM PST by hardspunned

Ratcliffe participated in classified briefings that helped convince Speaker Mike Johnson to reverse his prior position and back FISA

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There’s only one person in DC I trust completely regarding these matters and it is not DJT. Where the heck is Rand Paul? Will Paul’s warnings ever be heeded? Does Trump still support this after his Constitutional Rights were gutted by the same process?
1 posted on 11/13/2024 7:29:43 AM PST by hardspunned
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I am waiting to hear directly from him on his FISA misuse against American citizens and its use as a political weapon. Let him explain and course reset.


2 posted on 11/13/2024 7:34:38 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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There’s only one person in DC I trust completely regarding these matters and it is not DJT.

How were those Harris/Walz rallies?

3 posted on 11/13/2024 7:40:04 AM PST by New Perspective (As Leonard Cohen said once in an interview, “You won’t like what comes after America”)
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On top of that Trump-hating John Thune is on the verge of becoming the
Senate Repubican Leader. He’s a tall erosion of McTurtle.Why in the world has Trump not openly supported Rick Scott as leader.


4 posted on 11/13/2024 7:41:00 AM PST by NKP_Vet (Catholic-lite Equals Catholic ZERO)
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this is what i know about Ratcliffe on FISA. https://www.yahoo.com/news/rep-ratcliffe-importance-disclosure-fisa-155019067.html


5 posted on 11/13/2024 7:41:32 AM PST by avital2
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“ There’s only one person in DC I trust completely regarding these matters and it is not DJT. Where the heck is Rand Paul? Will Paul’s warnings ever be heeded? Does Trump still support this after his Constitutional Rights were gutted by the same process?”

Oh please.


6 posted on 11/13/2024 7:41:34 AM PST by stanne
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To: hardspunned

What has Trump said about the matter?

I suspect his appointees will carry out his agenda or be terminated.


7 posted on 11/13/2024 7:43:04 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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i doubt that Ratcliffe has abandoned his call for reforms in FISA process based on his exposure of abuses.


8 posted on 11/13/2024 7:43:58 AM PST by avital2
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FISA needs to go with the stroke of Trumps exec order pen.


9 posted on 11/13/2024 7:44:04 AM PST by BigFreakinToad (All she is, is cackles in the wind.)
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To: blackdog

When Trump nominated him in the first term, McConnell wouldn’t allow a vote. Trump then did the smartest thing of his presidency. He named Rick Grennell as acting director. Grennell immediately started kicking arse and taking names by declassifying and releasing DS secrets.

After a few weeks of that, McConnell couldn’t get Ratcliffe confirmed quick enough.

Unfortunately, the IC arse kicking ended when Grennell left.


10 posted on 11/13/2024 7:44:10 AM PST by hardspunned (Look for the“Putin Stooge” libel, news from Ukraine you’ve gradually grown to trust over 30 months )
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Simple reading. If Trump openly supports Scott, and Thune gets elected ML, it will not go well.
Trump does not pick majority leader in Senate. Senators vote with secret ballot.


11 posted on 11/13/2024 7:44:51 AM PST by Bobbyvotes (Congrats to Trump/Vance team. America has been saved. For a while at least. )
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The memo sez......To back FISA WITH REFORM.....


12 posted on 11/13/2024 7:46:21 AM PST by wardamneagle
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Don’t forget RINO/GOPe/uniparty leader Mike Johnson worked with Hakeem Jeffries to extend FISA another decade, of course the senate and Biden signed that omnibus package.


13 posted on 11/13/2024 7:47:29 AM PST by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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It is absolute stupidity for any Republican to support FISA.

FISA will always be a tool of the left to attack the right. Always. The courts in DC are hard left and will side with the left.

Stop helping the Democrats destroy America and the Republican party.


14 posted on 11/13/2024 7:51:11 AM PST by Mr. N. Wolfe
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does judicial oversight have to stay in that DC orbit? can it be legislated to be otherwise?


15 posted on 11/13/2024 7:54:40 AM PST by avital2
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Paul’s a puppet. A puppet for us, but he is now a puppet.

Just look at his Fauci theater.


16 posted on 11/13/2024 7:56:32 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: hardspunned

Until the Ukrainians capture a verifiable North Korean and show him to the world, it’s just spin.


17 posted on 11/13/2024 7:58:57 AM PST by Stingray51 ( )
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To: hardspunned

Remember, though, if you’re an FBI lawyer and deliberately and flagrantly alter an email in order to obtain a FISA warrant you will receive an immediate and harsh sentence of...6 months probation and some community service, so you better not do that!


18 posted on 11/13/2024 8:02:25 AM PST by suthener ( I do not like living under our homosexual, ghetto, feminist government.)
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To: hardspunned

FISA working both ways may be the exact way the Deep State gets obliterated..


19 posted on 11/13/2024 8:12:00 AM PST by delchiante
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Thune seemed to be a good representative. I wonder if he was corrupted with money or sex.


20 posted on 11/13/2024 8:30:38 AM PST by alternatives?
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