Posted on 03/27/2023 7:24:24 AM PDT by Twotone
After years of evidence that the FBI has abused its spy authorities, Congress is embarking on a bipartisan effort to revamp a key surveillance law to better protect civil liberties, including appointing special lawyers to advocate on behalf of Americans secretly targeted by the government.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Section 702 powers allow the government to rummage through phone records in terrorism and counterintelligence probes without a warrant and have long raised deep concerns, starting with ACLU litigation years ago and continuing through the bungled FISA warrant that unlawfully targeted the Trump campaign and adviser Carter Page during the Russia collusion probe.
But lawmakers continued to renew the law to ensure the government had the powers it needed to fight terror threats. But since its last renewal, the FISA Court and the U.S. intelligence community released devastating reports in 2020 and 2022 chronicling years of FISA abuses that went far beyond the Russia probe and even included targeting of a sitting member of Congress.
Those revelations have increased the resolve of lawmakers to make substantive changes this year when the law expires, including inside the House Intelligence Committee, where a bipartisan group was selected last week to craft suggested changes.
"I think that you will see changes made to it," Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga.), one of the newest members of the House Intelligence Committee, told Just the News, adding there was clear evidence that the law's past safeguards have been breached by the FBI and intel agencies.
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How about just repealing FISA altogether?
They’d rather rearrange a few deck chairs and pretend.
Congress needs to write its own laws and not have the swamp do it for them. If I were elected president I would get rid of any swamp who writes laws for congress. I would instead force all requests for law changes to be made publicly. Congress has sold out their ability to write the laws they vote on.
When government does not protect Americans’ God-given rights which are enshrined in the US Constitution then no additional law will make a difference. We have a bunch of dumbasses in Congress. Defunding and shuttering fixes the problem.
They like the power that comes with FISA. Look at what happened to the FBI when they were caught fabricating evidence used in a FISA warrant application - basically nothing at all.
Typical response of backstabbing tyrants.
Good, but I can’t see it getting past a Democrat Senator nor a Democrat President.
And all funding for the FBI as well.
The problem is the rubber stamp judges.
Unless criminal penalties are attached then these changes will be mere window dressing.
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And shut down the NSA, then kill every single person who works for the agency. Those who could make a compelling case for their continued survival, would get a 2" "NSA" tattoo on their forhead in glow-in the dark ink.
How “Inglorious Bastards” of you.
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