House GOP leadership pulls both FISA bills following backlash
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Just the News ^
| December 12, 2023 7:28am | Madeleine Hubbard
House Republican leadership pulled two bills reforming the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act from the floor, as Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., faced backlash for allowing two bills to be introduced on the surveillance law.Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., a member of the House Rules Committee, confirmed to the Washington Examiner late Monday evening that
neither of the bills reforming Section 702 would come to the floor for a vote this week. Republicans have been split on how to extend Section 702 of FISA, so Johnson had intended to introduce both bills Tuesday and have the one with the most votes advance to...
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46 ex-security officials support FISA 702 reauthorization; Snowden urges public to oppose it.
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Citizen Watch Report ^
For those that don’t know FISA 702 allows the FBI and other agencies warrantless access to your messages, calls, emails, etc… they want to expand it to force your internet providers, a coffee shop with a router, and any medium your data would go through to be accessible without a warrant.
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Two FISA reform bills up for House votes Tuesday, one will go to Senate (the old John Boehner gambit)
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Just the News ^
| 12/11/23 | Nicholas Ballasy
Competing Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) bills are scheduled for House floor votes on Tuesday. The Protect Liberty and End Warrantless Surveillance Act would end warrantless searches for Americans’ communications under section 702 of FISA. The exemptions for the warrant requirement include an “imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm" or
a “cybersecurity threat signature." FISA Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2023 would allow warrantless searches under section 702 to continue. Both pieces of legislation are being considered under "Queen of the Hill" rules, which will send to the Senate the bill that receives the most votes.
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Senators, don’t pass the defense bill without FISA reform
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The Blaze ^
| 11 Dec, 2023 | MIKE LEE
Warrantless “backdoor” searches of Americans’ private electronic communications under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act are modern versions of the general warrants used and abused by King George III. The FBI has used Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to conduct warrantless “backdoor” searches of the private electronic communications of American
citizens. It has done so, moreover, not just sporadically and by accident but quite deliberately and on hundreds of thousands of occasions. SNIP A shameful ployJohn Wilkes would be shocked by FISA 702, which the FBI has used hundreds of thousands of times to spy on Americans without...
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The Modified FISA-702 Reauthorization Bill (HR 6611) Has Passed the House – The Changes Have Expanded Federal Surveillance of Americans
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PatriotandLiberty ^
| 12/23 | Sundance
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) Chairman Mike Turner is celebrating the passage of HR 6611, the 2023 FISA reauthorization bill.Chairman Turner would have granted a clean FISA renewal, he’s that kind of Republican; however, several Republicans demanded changes to the FISA-702 authorities that capture the data of American citizens without
a warrant. Thus, the HPSCI modified the authorities within HR 6611, but they made it worse.
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Capitol Hill TURF WAR breaks out over rewrite of government’s FISA spy powers
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Washington Times ^
| Nov 30 | By Kerry Picket
Lawmakers on the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees are fighting over how to rewrite rules for the government’s chief spying tool before it expires at year’s end. The
House Judiciary Committee insists that Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which allows the government to scoop communications from a wide range of non-American targets abroad, must be fundamentally rewritten to stop a history of abuses that snared Americans. But the intelligence committee says a total rewrite would undermine the value of the program, which the national security community says is the backbone of U.S. efforts to constrain China, stop...
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House GOP crafting major FISA reform to block snooping on Americans’ phone records without warrants
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Just the News ^
| 11/3/23 | John Solomon
House Judiciary Committee Republicans are pressing ahead with sweeping reforms to the government’s FISA surveillance powers that among other things would would prohibit the FBI from searching through Americans’ phone records without a court-approved warrant. The
effort is on track to be wrapped up by the end of the year when several Patriot Act powers expire. Republicans and Democrats are coming together on this matter in rare bipartisan cooperation, lawmakers told Just the News. “We've got, I think, strong agreement amongst members of the Intel Committee and members of the Judiciary Committee. And frankly some Democrats as well, that there...
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Deception by Redaction: More FBI FISA Abuses, This Time Using Fake News in the Washington Post
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Real Clear Investigations ^
| 8/1/23 | Paul Sperry
The FBI’s efforts to mislead a federal court in order to wiretap an adviser to the Trump campaign were more extensive than previously reported, according to classified documents described to RealClearInvestigations. The embattled bureau tried to hide its misconduct by redacting information about its actions under the guise that it involved sensitive
intelligence information. RCI has learned that at least some of the redacted material, included in a “Classified Appendix” to Special Counsel John Durham’s final report, has nothing to do with protecting “sources and methods” and other “sensitive” investigative techniques. Instead, it covers up additional improper behavior by the...
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FBI Used FISA Spying on U.S. Senator - The FBI searched for information on a U.S. senator, a state lawmaker and a state judge
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Front Page Magazine ^
| 23 Jul, 2023 | Daniel Greenfield
Remember FBI Director Wray’s response to the Durham report was that everything had already been fixed. Nothing
has actually been fixed. The FBI improperly used surveillance powers to conduct searches for information on a U.S. senator, a state lawmaker and a state judge, according to court records released Friday as part of a public records request. The surveillance court outlined three examples of instances where FBI personnel conducted searches of “sensitive query terms,” like those of U.S. public officials or candidates, without first seeking approval from the FBI’s deputy director. “In June 2022, an analyst conducted four queries of Section...
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Matt Gaetz leads charge to let FISA expire, end illegal surveillance of US citizens
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Yahoo ^
A group of House Republicans is urging Congress not to renew the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) when it expires at the end of this year, a move those lawmakers say would curb the government’s ability to spy on U.S. citizens."I think most folks are increasingly concerned about centralized power with our
national security apparatus, given how political they've become," Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who will introduce a resolution Tuesday calling for an end to FISA, told Fox News Digital. (snip)Section 702 of FISA allows surveillance of non-U.S. citizens overseas, and when U.S. citizens are flagged in these investigations, the...
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Bipartisan effort to reauthorize FISA, end abuses likely iced by Durham report
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Just the News ^
| 7/1/23 | Nicholas Ballasy
Congressional Democrats have joined in bipartisan effort to reform the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act amid abuses exposed in special counsel probes and in federal court. But
GOP outrage over the matter, including recent calls out impeach Attorney General Merrick Garland over such matters, has likely hurt such efforts. Congressional reauthorization of FISA is due in December, with particular focus on Section 702 of the law, which permits the government to conduct targeted surveillance on foreign people outside the U.S., with the assistance of electronic communication service providers, to acquire foreign intelligence information. Beyond concerns about FISA abuses, lawmakers are also...
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Bureaucrats Are Hell-Bent On Congress Rubber Stamping FISA So They Can Snoop Without Warrants Or Consequences
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Federalist, ^
| JUNE 13, 2023 | Jordan Boyd
Section 702 has easily become the security apparatus’ favorite excuse to conduct backdoor, warrantless surveillance on American citizens. Intelligence
agencies, with the help of the current regime, market Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to Congress as a means to keep Americans safe from foreign threats. Instead, as members of the Senate Judiciary Committee demonstrated on Tuesday, it’s become a proven loophole that lets verifiably corrupt bureaucrats spy on Americans. Nearly two decades after its inception, Section 702 has easily become the security apparatus’ favorite excuse to conduct backdoor, warrantless surveillance on American citizens. The FBI’s infamous and...
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VIDEO: 2017 FLASHBACK: Dan Abrams Mocked Robert Barnes for Alleging FISA Corruption
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Rumble ^
| May 22, 2023 | DUmmie FUnnies
VIDEODan Abrams went full shmuck on Robert Barnes back in 2017 for daring to suggest that the FISA system might have been corrupted by the Obama FBI. Of course, now we know in the wake of the IG report and the Durham report that Barnes was absolutely right. And
still no APOLOGY from Dan Abrams.
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FISA Court Report: FBI Continued to Abuse Surveillance Tool After Trump-Era Abuses
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American Greatness ^
| 19 May, 2023 | Debra Heine
The FBI continued to abuse a powerful digital surveillance tool even after the Bureau promised reforms following its Trump-era abuses, according to a newly-unsealed Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court document. The
FBI misused Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) more than 278,000 times, the Washington Post reported, “including against crime victims, January 6 riot suspects, and people arrested at protests in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in 2020.” In one particularly egregious case, they reportedly relied on Section 702 to spy on 19,000 donors to a congressional candidate. Section 702 is a provision of...
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FBI improperly used warrantless search powers more than 278,000 times in 2021, FISA court filing reveals
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Fox News ^
| May 19, 2023 | Brooke Singman
The queries targeted people involved in Jan. 6 and George Floyd protests, and donors to a failed congressional candidate ... The FBI improperly used warrantless search powers against U.S. citizens more than 278,000 times in the year ending November 2021, according to an unsealed Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) filing. U.S.
citizens covered in that improper effort included people involved in the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021; George Floyd protesters during the summer of 2020; and donors to a failed congressional candidate, the filing said. ... The court filing, which spanned 127 pages, was unsealed Friday by the FISC,...
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FISA 702 Reauthorization Scheduled for This Year – Here’s Why It Must Be Opposed
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The Conservative Treehouse ^
| 1 May, 2023 | sundance
Office of Inspector General Michael Horowitz testified April 27, 2023, that more than 3.4 million search queries into the NSA database took place between Dec. 1st, 2020 and Nov. 30th, 2021, by government officials and/or contractors working on behalf of the federal government. These
search queries were based on authorizations related to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Approximately 30% of those 3.4 million search queries were outside the rules and regulations that govern warrantless searches, what the politically correct government calls “non-compliant searches.” That means more than 1 million searches of private documents and communication of Americans were illegal...
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FBI May Have Used FISA To Spy On The Congressman Overseeing FISA, Whose Renewal Is ‘Top Legislative Priority’ For Biden (Rep. Darin LaHood)
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dailywire.com ^
| 3/9/2023 | luke rosiak
The FBI may have abused the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to spy on the very congressman tasked with overseeing FISA, according to revelations at a congressional hearing Thursday. Rep. Darin LaHood (R-IL), a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said at a committee hearing that he has reason
to believe that he is the unnamed congressman who, a recently declassified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) admitted, FBI agents wrongfully conducted a search on. LaHood is leading a working group tasked with oversight and renewal of Section 702 of FISA, Fox...
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Rep. Biggs tells FBI director GOP lawmakers undecided on reauthorization of FISA over past abuses
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Washington Times ^
| 2/17/23 | Kerry Pickett
Rep. Andy Biggs told FBI leadership that he and his colleagues are reconsidering their support of the reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, based on findings from a report issued by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The Arizona Republican sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray on
Tuesday regarding the agency’s use of “backdoor searches” to access FISA data to get information relating to U.S. citizens.
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Former FBI Lawyer Who Approved FISA Warrant To Spy On Trump Helped Censor Hunter Biden Laptop Story
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Daily Caller ^
| BRIANNA LYMAN
James Baker, the former FBI lawyer involved in approving the faulty Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant used to spy on the Trump campaign, also helped censor the Hunter Biden laptop story, according to a series of tweets posted by Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt Taibbi. Twitter CEO Elon Musk released the
so-called “Twitter Files” Friday afternoon, detailing how the social media platform suppressed a New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop in 2020. The Daily Caller News Foundation verified the authenticity of the laptop soon after the NY Post published the story. The Twitter data released Friday shows...
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Rep. Jordan Eyes Eliminating FISA, ‘Major Changes’ at FBI, DOJ if GOP Wins Control of Congress
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Cybercast News Service ^
| October 10, 2022 | 3:51pm EDT | Craig Bannister
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) says there need to be “major changes” to the Justice Department and FBI, and FISA should be allowed to expire, if Republicans win control of Congress in November. “I think we should not even reauthorize FISA (The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act), which is going to come in the
next Congress,” Rep. Jordan said in a Fox News Channel interview on Sunday. At the very least, Congress needs to change the FISA process, Jordan said. FISA was intended to facilitate the gathering of foreign, not domestic, intelligence information. But, conservatives have become increasing concerned about abuses of...
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