54 Bipartisan Lawmakers Urge Speaker Johnson Not to Slip Deep State Surveillance Authorization in Defense Bill

Breitbart ^ | 11/29/23 | Sean Moran

[cotton1706]

Fifty-four House lawmakers, Democrat and Republican, conservative and progressive, called on House Speaker Mike Johnson Wednesday not to extend a controversial deep state surveillance law in a defense bill.

Reps. Warren Davidson (R-OH) and Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), two skeptics of government surveillance, spearheaded the letter, which comes weeks before the year-end deadline of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

Section 702 is a law that allows intelligence agencies to collect communications of targeted foreigners. It also may lead to targeted surveillance of Americans’ private communications, which privacy advocates consider a run around the Fourth Amendment’s requirement for a warrant to search Americans’ communications. The law will expire at the end of 2023.

The 54 House lawmakers said in no uncertain terms that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) should not pursue a reauthorization of Section 702, temporary or otherwise, in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

“If Section 702 is to be reauthorized for even a single day, it must be through standalone legislation subject to robust, open debate and amendment,” the lawmakers wrote in their letter.

[cotton1706]

Letting a provision of law expire is the EASIEST thing that can be done by the Congress. Because all they have to do is nothing at all.

But you can tell by the battle that they are DESPERATE to RENEW section 702.

And they want to get it sneakily renewed.

And they don't care HOW they do it, or who they have to pay off, or who gets hurt or helped politically. THEY WANT THAT POWER RENEWED AT ALL COST.

[rktman]

Guess the NDAA is getting loaded with garbage. Just got this from GOA about “plastic guns” being somewhere in the NDAA:

“Earlier this year, I emailed you about a dangerous gun ban hidden within the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

Well, so far, Congress has failed to remove the anti-gun language from the bill – and the House is now considering passing the NDAA (H.R. 2670) with the gun ban intact.

The language would PERMANENTLY BAN all plastic firearms and open the door for the Biden Administration to outlaw millions of firearms with non-metal components!

All anti-gun Attorney General Merrick Garland would have to do is redefine the meaning of the word “receiver” to cover small non-metal parts of guns, making them “undetectable firearms.”

This could lead to widespread gun bans because the NDAA states “[i]t shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, import, sell, ship, deliver, possess, transfer, or receive” the firearm to which the part attaches.

Biden has already banned 40,000,000 pistols with attached stabilizing braces – and if H.R. 2670 passes, his Administration could ban millions more guns with the stroke of a pen.

We need YOU to dial up the pressure on your legislators before it’s too late.”

[Liz]

If a govt organization is suspected of having political bias, that’s unconstitutional.

The US government cannot support that w/ tax dollars.

And this: a very pertinent point regarding the “outsourcing of censorship.”

NDAA SECTION 1532 “That which government is
constitutionally prohibited from doing, it cannot
contract with others to do.”

Let’s ensure that Section 1532 is preserved in the final version of the NDAA.

[ridesthemiles]

EACH & EVERY BILL IN CONGRESS SHOULD BE A STAND ALONE BILL.

STOP HIDING ITEMS

[fruser1]

Just because you happen to be going about your business freely doesn’t mean you’re in a free country brother.