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Conservative revolt in the House blocks effort to reauthorize a key US spy tool
AP ^ | April 10, 2024 | ERIC TUCKER and FARNOUSH AMIRI

Posted on 04/10/2024 2:52:21 PM PDT by McGruff

A bill that would reauthorize a crucial national security surveillance program was blocked Wednesday by a conservative revolt, pushing the prospects of final passage into uncertainty amid a looming deadline. The legislative impasse follows an edict earlier in the day from former President Donald Trump to “kill” the measure.

The bill in question would renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which permits the U.S. government to collect without a warrant the communications of non-Americans located outside the country to gather foreign intelligence. The reauthorization is currently tied to a series of reforms aimed at satisfying critics who complained of civil liberties violations against Americans.

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The bill’s failure also reflected the dramatic ideological shift in the Republican Party, which for years after the Sept. 11 attacks supported expansive surveillance in the name of national security but has more recently walked back from that position thanks in part to lingering outrage over the FBI’s investigation into Trump’s 2016 campaign. That skepticism of the government’s spy powers has created an unusual alliance between far-right Republicans and civil liberties-minded Democrats.

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1 posted on 04/10/2024 2:52:21 PM PDT by McGruff
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To: McGruff

It’s sad that the government so abused its power that it cannot be trusted, but here we are.

If the ACLU was actually an organization that supported civil liberties, instead of a fake front group for the Democrats and Deep State, it would now endorse all these conservatives.


2 posted on 04/10/2024 2:59:35 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: McGruff

Spy on WHO????? probably conservatives, Christians, and tax payers.


3 posted on 04/10/2024 2:59:43 PM PDT by davidb56
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To: McGruff

Its obvious that Obama/Holder/Brennan and their fellow marxists turned the DOJ/FBI/DHS/CIA into woke institutions who will break any law and destroy any tradition, to keep themselves and their ideology in power


4 posted on 04/10/2024 3:00:00 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: McGruff

Now gut the new Headquarters of the Pretorian Guard. Today. End it.


5 posted on 04/10/2024 3:00:05 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: McGruff
Someone reconcile these two items:

"The bill in question would renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which permits the U.S. government to collect without a warrant the communications of non-Americans located outside the country to gather foreign intelligence."

"Those violations have led to demands for the FBI to have a warrant before conducting database queries on Americans, which FBI director Chris Wray has warned would effectively gut the effectiveness of the program and was also legally unnecessary since the database contained already lawfully collected information."

Implied admission that 702 has been a "legal" fig leaf to spy on Americans domestically, imho. And the fact that they tried to put in a cutout for Congress is a further implied admission.

6 posted on 04/10/2024 3:02:08 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: McGruff

The Turtle is probably livid at this outcome.
“Trump made this happen, and he’s not even in office!
Damn him. Damn his name!...And after I promised Chuck Schumer that this would be a Slam Dunk! What will this do for my credibility?”


7 posted on 04/10/2024 3:02:40 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: MeanWestTexan

Yes. Of all the disappointments in my life with regards to government, it is the disillusionment of seeing it turn into a police state that depresses me the most.

I don’t. Trust. A. Single. Word. that comes out of the government now. I just assume they are lying.

And that cuts deep.


8 posted on 04/10/2024 3:02:43 PM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: McGruff

Kill it.

Then kill it again.

L


9 posted on 04/10/2024 3:02:50 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: McGruff

“Crucial “? To whom?


10 posted on 04/10/2024 3:03:09 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.)
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To: McGruff

“ The bill’s failure also reflected the dramatic ideological shift in the Republican Party, which for years after the Sept. 11 attacks supported expansive surveillance in the name of national security”

BS! Nancy Pelosi and her crew not only supported it but expanded it and made it permanent!


11 posted on 04/10/2024 3:04:31 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: McGruff
AP says “outrage over the FBI’s investigation into Trump’s 2016 campaign”. It wasn’t an investigation; they spied on Trump. Samantha Power should have been hanged for treason.
12 posted on 04/10/2024 3:06:32 PM PDT by Venkman
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To: Skywise

both did. it was a bipartisan agenda item


13 posted on 04/10/2024 3:11:46 PM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: McGruff

It’s those crazy conservatives again. Wanting to reign in the gooberment police state. They’re just out of control aren’t they? /s


14 posted on 04/10/2024 3:17:35 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
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To: McGruff
Nineteen House Republicans sided with Democrats Wednesday to defeat the rule, 228 to 193.

Why would so many dems vote against it? Why would so many repubs be for it?


15 posted on 04/10/2024 3:25:44 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Fledermaus

To the AP

They know it’s targeted at the conservatives


16 posted on 04/10/2024 3:26:03 PM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: McGruff
"... a key US spy tool.."

...a key US democrat spy tool.

17 posted on 04/10/2024 3:36:05 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: McGruff

“Crucial”? In what way? This isn’t journalism, it’s editorial.


18 posted on 04/10/2024 3:44:08 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: rlmorel

“seeing it turn into a police state that depresses me the most.”

WTF?

What has been revealed for all the world to finally see is that it’s always been this way.
It’s nothing new.

Many just had things pretty good and believed the propaganda.


19 posted on 04/10/2024 3:50:22 PM PDT by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
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To: McGruff
Full house vote on procedural rule for reauthorization of FISA:

On Agreeing to the Resolution: H RES 1125 Providing for consideration of the bills H.R. 7888 and H.R. 529; and providing for consideration of the resolutions H. Res. 1112 and H. Res. 1117

20 posted on 04/10/2024 3:51:46 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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