Posted on 01/30/2025 7:00:59 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
President Trump’s pick to lead the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, has never been shy about sharing her criticisms of America’s surveillance state. So, it came as no surprise when some of its biggest defenders grilled her on the subject during her Thursday Senate confirmation hearing.
While testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Gabbard was repeatedly pressed by senators to offer a full-throated defense of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which intel agencies abused to spy on unsuspecting Americans and surveil Trump’s 2016 campaign.
As The Federalist’s Logan Washburn recently reported, “Section 702 of the legislation allows federal agencies to collect communications of noncitizens, outside the country, without a warrant.” It furthermore “supposedly bars the government from spying on Americans,” Washburn noted, “but the CIA was caught in 2022 using the law — which Congressional Republicans reauthorized last year — to spy on Americans.”
While serving in Congress, Gabbard co-sponsored legislation alongside Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., that sought to reform FISA and revoke the Patriot Act. She has since been all but forced to change her position on FISA, seemingly to gain support from some Republican senators.
Gabbard was asked about her evolving position on the law by the committee’s ranking member, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va. Yet when Gabbard attempted to answer Warner’s question about which FISA Section 702 reforms she supports, the Virginia Democrat cut her off and wouldn’t allow her to finish.
It wasn’t only Warner who...
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She left the dem party so is now an enemy. Same with RFK jr. THAT is the real issue.
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These are Soetoro’s Butt Buddy spy agencies.
And they answer to the world enslavement forum.
Demorats didn’t grill her - they highly insulted her, screamed at her, and made utter fools out of themselves showing clearly what hateful condescending pricks they are....
they never expected to be sitting there judging trumps appointees and they are now all sh####ing their pants at the prospects. Making fools of themselves X 10 and watching them squirm with out burst of frustration is very entertaining
they never expected to be sitting there judging trumps appointees and they are now all sh####ing their pants at the prospects. Making fools of themselves X 10 and watching them squirm with out burst of frustration is very entertaining
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