As anticipated by highly frustrated observers (me included), the House of Representatives has provided a two-year extension of the FISA-702 surveillance authority, with no substantive restrictions. While the issue is enough to make a person break things, the outcome does not come as a surprise.
Speaker Mike Johnson said earlier he was against FISA-702 extensions after seeing the evidence of thousands of Americans illegally captured under surveillance. According to the DOJ Office of Inspector General, the 14 month total of illegal searches for 2021 exceeded 1.1 million. Yes, THAT’s MILLION, and the searches were done by over 10,000 federal employees and contractors who have access to the personal electronic data of every American.
However, now that House Speaker Johnson is a member of the intelligence “gang of eight” and getting briefings from the intelligence community, he now sees value in the FISA-702 surveillance program regardless of the constitutional damage created in the aftermath of warrantless searches, a 4th Amendment issue.
The DC intelligence briefings are filled with pearl-clutching nonsense; however, none of the primary people in DC are willing to take on the intelligence community except Donald J Trump.Β This reality is one of the core reasons why the IC attack President Trump.Β The IC is a weaponized assembly of corrupt intelligence operatives from a broad spectrum of agencies, and nothing they say with authority can be trusted against the context of their self-interest.
WASHINGTON DC – The House on Friday passed legislation reauthorizing a controversial government surveillance power β capping off a monthslong debate marked by acrimonious GOP infighting.
The 273-147 bipartisan vote is a win for embattled Speaker Mike Johnson, who has struggled publicly to bridge the deep divides within his conference. But it also puts him at odds with some of his biggest conservative critics, 88 of whom opposed the bill, as he faces the threat of an ouster vote.
The bill still needs to get through the Senate and to President Joe Bidenβs desk by the April 19 deadline for reauthorizing the spy power.
Fridayβs vote comes just two days after 19 Republicans prevented Johnson from even bringing a bill to the floor to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which allows the intelligence community to collect the communications of foreign targets without a warrant.
Another dramatic turn came just ahead of the billβs final passage, with a proposal to require warrants when searching foreign data collected by the surveillance program for information related to Americans failed on 212-212 tie.
The Biden administration and members of the Intelligence Committee waged an intense lobbying effort ahead of the vote; Attorney General Merrick Garland was calling members on Friday to urge their support for the bill and opposition to the warrant requirement, according to a person familiar with the conversations who was granted anonymity to speak candidly.
In a bid to get his holdouts on board, Johnson shortened the reauthorization period for the program from five years to two years β which caused heartburn in some corners of the Biden administration and would put the next wiretapping fight in a potential second Trump term, if the GOPβs standard-bearer wins in November. (read more)
Speaker Johnson on his FISA flip flop: βWhen I was a member of the Judiciary I saw the abuses of the FBI, hundreds of thousands of abuses. And then I became Speaker and got the confidential briefing to understand how important it is for national security.βpic.twitter.com/b5eqOTXANU
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) April 11, 2024
Don’t get too upset about this; this outcome was always going to be what happens.Β Β After spending several days trying to convince people in DC a few months ago, I realized the effort was futile.
We the People are in an abusive relationship with our government, and nothing is going to happen until the abused finally say, ‘enough is enough’ and stop allowing themselves to be victimized by a weaponized government.
Saying “enough is enough” takes a myriad of approaches, including extreme compliance and I will explain my thinking in greater detail very soon.Β You will understand much better when you understand what lawful non-adherence to their manufactured pretending looks like….
Enemy Of The State with Will Smith is even more relevant today.
I would have mentioned Gene Hackman in reference to this movie vs that poor excuse for a man. Otherwise I agree and canβt understand why we no longer have great movies like Hackmanβs in the 80s and 90s.
The list goes on forever.
Hackman and Eastwood are both 94 and kicking.
Can’t mention that movie without mentioning Hackmans “The Conversation.”
In this terrible time in our nation’s history, we ALL need to pray, fast, return to God and His Laws, and beg His forgiveness.
Call your representatives too! There’s a few hours left! https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/house-votes-630-pm-monday-night-kill-fisa/
We also need to pray for our TRUE president. He likes a challenge, but likes to win!!!
Win we will, if and only if, we repent, pray, and fast. Once we win we must stay vigilent and never become complacent again.
So correct me if Iβm wrong. The constitution is a living breathing instrument and it has been since its founding. Tell me otherwise.
Nope, not so. Our Constitution is a distillation of 18th Century wisdom with regard to best practices in the formation of a constitutional republic, also known as rule of law. Modern day scholars cannot hold a candle to the average classically educated 18th Century citizens. Our Founders left us a marvelous set of documents with which they intended for us to build a limited government, subservient to its people. They did not leave it for a pack of Marxist morons to play with and fundamentally transform!
I periodically re-read The Federalist Papers (my fave being the Antifederalists. How wise and prescient they were! Just as applicable today as when written!
The Constitutions method of changing is written in the text of the Constitution.
It cannot be changed by passing a law, by judicial whim, or any other method other than what it has written within it.
The principles outlinec in the Constitution are being eliminated within the government which the Constitution formed as the words in the Constitution have been redefined by marxists.
I simply and sincerely believe that these people are obsessed. And, I am also quite sure that there are legions of computer software and hardware companies who are sucking very hard on that ##CLASSIFIED## teat.
“Because we can, therefore we must.”ο»Ώ
The spice must flow.
It is still unconstitutional. When will SCOTUS put an end to this?
SCOTUS will not touch this with a ten-thousand foot pole. In particular John Roberts is a cowardly worm and fears “Six ways from Sunday.” He will never allow SCOTUS to get into a position where they must push back against the Intel agencies. He will find any excuse not to adjudicate FISA on its merits.
Justiss Roberts sees a scary Schumer in every dark corner of his house.
Roberts witnessed what happened to GOAT Scalia. Roberts is avoiding the same fate like the coward he is.
Goat??
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What happened?
The SCROTUS? Surely you jest? Roberts oversees the FISA court system. Always remember, with the SCROTUS, you have no standing.
SCOTUS itself has been instrumental in the destruction of our rights and the facilitation of the rise of tyranny.
As much as I totally dislike this outcome, I am quite happy it is only for 2 years, then President Donald Trump can fix it.
Also, can you imagine the blame that would be cast onto all the GOP and Trump if the terrorist attacks start to happen later this year as a lot of us fear and expect because of the open borders!
And before he fixes it, I am quite happy if President Trump uses this to his benefit to get all the evidence needed for those who have committed treason.
This is better than the 5 year extension first posed that would have leap-frogged the renewal after President Trumps next term.
What better scenario than to use this too-powerful tool against evil and then destroy the tool.
If Trump gets back in the WH he will face a demonrat controlled congress who will impeach him monthly.
Sen Mike Lee said yesterday on Beck’s radio show that the 702 crap, as is, doesn’t even expire until 365 days from
19APR2024.
So, why the urgency???
Trust God. Fear not.
….and the CIA/FBI would make sure the attacks would occur
This FISA catastrophe can be “fixed” anytime by Congress voting to repeal it when voters elect God-fearing politicians. That happens when we take back elections.
So create serious mandatory sentencing for election interference, including capital punishment. Then prosecute vigorously. Need good judges.
The IC will create some horrific false flags, then people will cry for “safety”.
I have a thought on this. President is the executive and all power of any executive branch agency or employee flows from the executive. President Trump could perhaps executive order that no federal agencies of the executive branch utilise the fisa court in any way shape or manner. All federal law enforcement agencies are executive branch agencies. The President has no direct authority over the judicial branch including the fisa court. However the President does theoretically rule over all executive branch agencies. Just a thought. Looking for a workaround.
A better work around is to use FISA even more extremely against the libs, and make them sorry they ever wanted it.
Exactly. Get in the game.
Old saying…
“To win a race you must be in the race.”
Exactly, after he cleans up the DEI hires
Excellent idea.
Trump-Hating Former Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe FINALLY Comes Clean After Years of Lying β Says Carter Page FISA Application to Spy on Trump Was βWrongβ and a βMistakeβ
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/trump-hating-former-acting-fbi-director-andrew-mccabe/
The only reason McCabe has admitted now is that abuse of 702 is now policy, there is no changing it once precedent has been established and ingrained.
Chip Roy
@chiproytx
BREAKING: Itβs not over. There will be ONE more vote on Monday on a reconsideration of FISA in the U.S. House. The bill should be stopped because it lacks warrant protection for Americans – thanks to 86 Republicans & 126 Democrats who killed the warrant. #GetAWarrant
Not buying it! I think it went down more like, βSpeaker Johnson, we know (whatever about you) so when you come out of this meeting you will say the followingβ¦. Read Speaker Johnsonβs comment above.
Do I know this for a fact? Of course not.
But think folks!
Dear we the people,
My comment was not directed to your post, so apologies!
I meant it as a general comment to TCT family.
Blessings!
When I was a member of the Judiciary I saw the abuses of the FBI, hundreds of thousands of abuses. And then I became Speaker and got the confidential briefing to understand how important it is for national security.
This reminds me of the Vietnam War comment by an unnamed major to journalist Peter Arnett, “It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.”
Johnson: “It became necessary to violate the Constitution to save the country based on that Constitution.”
Speaker Johnson on his “confidential briefing to understand how important it is for national security.β
Did he at least get a single case where the IC found and stopped a foreign bad guy doing harm the USA in that briefing?
Wonder if Speaker Johnson had ever been a guest of Epstein?
No. I read somewhere that when pressed, the FISA authorities and IC could not demonstrate EVEN ONE CASE of a terrorist attack that FISA had prevented!
Or, he was against it before he was for it…
All laws must be constitutional. Why is it that one can go to jail for breaking the law but Congress skates from breaking the Constitution. As far as I am concerned all who voted for warrantless searches are enemies of the state and must be defeated by any means necessary.
Did not Bush Jr say something similar about the free market, he had to kill it to save it?
We REALLY need some legislation to prosecute govt people for violation of their oaths. You couldn’t get more brazen than this!
NEVER FORGET: Chris Wrayβs FBI Illegally Used FISA to Spy on Americans 278,000 Times without Warrant β Including Trump, J6 Families and Trump Donors
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/never-forget-chris-wrays-fbi-illegally-used-fisa/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=never-forget-chris-wrays-fbi-illegally-used-fisa
p.s. this doesnt mean I think rep Paulina is not corrupt.
It was Congresswoman Lesko out with the flu. She said she would not have supported it without the Warrant protection.
A Demorat would have masked-up and crawled in for that vote.
No, a Democrat would have voted via proxy vote.
lol she wasn’t feeling well so she took a sick day!!!! BS!!!!
“You cannot have a free and open society with the warrantless spying of Americans.”
Justified by “national security”, along with censorship, propaganda, and political persecution.
Add to the other machinations sinking the US, with their “justifications”, including:
Medical tyranny and harm: “Public health”.
Economic strangulation: “Climate”.
Competency destruction: “Social Justice”.
Morality destruction: “Don’t hate”.
Open borders: “Compassion”.
Runaway Federal fiat debt: “Everything but the real reasons.”
Note that everything other than the authoritarian controls is unique to the US/Bloc. This is instructive.
Pith, how does it feel to be correct? Don’t forget about the “war” on drugs narrative. Keeps the swamp on a “war” footing.
Most likely what the other members of the gang of eight showed Speaker Johnson was a collection of certain photos and a potential leak date unless he suddenly embraced the wisdom of warrantless searches.
New Boss same as the Old Boss ?
Welcome to Animal Farm.
Is there a way to recover the “password”?
So many cowards. Yes Mike Johnson, that would be you.
Maybe – Just maybe(but no holding my breath) this is a little rope-a-dope maneuver by good guys on the inside who will need 2 years of FISA infused surveillance by a Trump appointed DOJ to surveil the bad actors and take them out.
I’m a glass half full guy so don’t shoot me.
Republicans seem to have as many tyrannical tendencies as Democrats. They both seem to have forgotten the Constitution!!
If you run for office because you’re motivated by power or money, the Constitution is incidental.
Stunning how we absolutely refuse to learn anything, anything at all.
Mike Johnson is Boehner 4.o.
Bastards, Traitors (sorry, I can’t not get upset about this. I am completely, totally, absolutely fed up with these scum)
Tomorrow on WarRoom’s Saturday edition at 10a.m., Steve Bannon and guests are having an in depth
look at the removal of Presidents Kennedy, Nixon, and Trump from office.
Should be well worth tuning in.
“Speaker Johnson Casts Deciding Vote to Allow the FBI to Spy on Americans Without a Warrant” β RedState
“FISA Reform Failed Because the Whole Point of Section 702 Is to Spy on Americans” – the Federalist
“Bill Barr blasts Trump for call to kill FISA: βCrazy and recklessβ” – the Hill
βIf we canβt spy on foreign terrorists and foreign spies overseas, weβre out of the intelligence business.β – Sen Rubio the Hill
(Gaslighter, it’s the CIA’s job to spy on foreigners overseas, we’re talking about domestic spying by the FBI on Americans)
The software could be re-written to automatically delete the identity of any American found in a search, before any information can be displayed, with no ability to retrieve it. Easy-peasy.
It is unacceptable that these a&$holes have suspended the 4th amendment. They all took an oath to uphold the constitution. They have violated this oath and should be immediately removed from office. Which right will they remove next?
Remember the original NDAA from 2010? Provided for indefinite detention of Americans without ANY DUE PROCESS AT ALL, no habeas corpus. So many brazen violations of 4th & 5th Amendments that they had to have TWO VOTES IN CONGRESS!
It still passed and Allen West voted FOR IT… TWICE. Now, it’s just business as usual.
The enemies within.π¦¨
Six ways from sunday black rock operatives?
Cellguy,
You are on the right track looking at the black rocks, but don’t stop there.
Is there a tectonic global shift underway, shifting the black rocks (and everyone else)?
What is the apparent end state?
Welcome back, Mickey! Missed you!
Thomas Jefferson long ago predicted: βIt has long, however, been my opinion, and I have never shrunk from its expression β¦that the germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal Judiciary; β¦working like gravity by night and day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped.β- Letter to Charles Hammond, August 18, 1821.
So true.
I have been compelled to ask myself time and again if our Founding Fathers erred in how the Constitution set up the judiciary branch. It essentially operates as a dictatorship, sealing the fate of all who come before it and who are subject to its dictates, even the dictates that are obviously unconstitutional themselves.
Have others here had the same question?
Yes. In the end, our Framers emphasized that we put MEN OF CHARACTER in govt, that none other will suffice.
It’s the key to everything. And look at what we have now. With a few exceptions … Sleazy scoundrels.
Had forgotten this, thx.
The same Administration that opened the border and protects actual criminal illegal aliens from prosecution is the same Administration that says FISA is needed for “National Security.” What “National Security” when videos and photographs of Chinese migrants in Panama typically show them standing in a line at either “Attention” or “Parade Rest?”
If you enforce only OPEN borders, you don’t care about “National Security.”
Let’s tear this thing apart:
βWhen I was a member of the Judiciary I saw the abuses of the FBI, hundreds of thousands of abuses. And then I became Speaker and got the confidential briefing to understand how important it is for national security.β
When you break down what Johnson says here, the only “it” to which Johnson refers as being “important for national security” just happens tp be “abuses of the FBI< hundreds of thousands of abuses.”
Iβm looking forward to learning what extreme compliance is. π
Did I miss in your written opinion that Congress exempted themselves from the warranted spying? How is it that Congress proposes laws while exempting themselves and continues to vote for their own salary increases? TERM LIMITS!
They’ve been doing this long before fisa, they would do it regardless of authorization, they will continue doing it regardless of any actions PDJT 47 might take.
The only *real* solution is to completely dissolve the IC community.
If US guv stopped attacking (or arranging/aiding the attack of) sovereign nations and/or interfering with US”AID” there would be no need for them. IMHO
US guv has created most of their enemies, no nations people want US forces present on their land, not even the UK. I’m talking the people not the government
“Extreme compliance” …
Very interesting comment. Now awaiting SD’s instructions and marching orders with a Cheshire Cat smile.
This is much more than a “4th amendment issue”. It is on it’s face unconstitutional. Every one of those clowns made an oath to uphold the constitution. Well, we’re waiting! I would like to see DJT forcefully, repeatedly make this point.
Best make plans, this thing is going down fast.
They’re desperate.
It does NOT MATTER how important something unConstitutional is for “national security”.
It is also impossible that something can be extremely important for national security yet a warrant cannot be obtained.
Right on both statements.
Johnson broke the tie and then went straight to Mar a Lago for a press conference with President Trump about voter integrity. He defied our president and then within hours was able to go down there and hold a press conference. I am in hatred with Johnson.
What must PDJT be thinking? It makes me scratch my head that he would allow traitorous worm Johnson on the premises straight away.
Straight up sleaze. May God curse his soul. Of course, he’s already done that to himself.
Republican Congressman Mike Garcia told Christopher Wray that he is not trustworthy, but then voted against the Biggs amendment that would require the FBI to obtain a search warrant before conducting surveillance against U.S. citizens. Just lots of noise from yet another Republican deep stater.
I am wondering if the warrantless spying on We the People, is a back door to the attempts at the digitalizing of our dollar?
CBDCs and social credit scores are nails for the coffins of our liberties.
The metadata storage facilities and the tens of thousands of taskmasters with access to this data are the hammer.
The fake constitutional legality of FISA and FISC enable the hammer to swing away unimpeded.
If the nails are taken away evildoers will continue to find ways to harm us with the hammer.
At the end of that extension, our Criminal Congress will give it another extension. They (our Criminal Congress) want all the information that can be obtained about every American citizen. If they didn’t, FISA would be gone.
It’s once again about controlling us.
President Trump is our only hope. It is time for a new political party. The republican party has not only surrendered, they are now fighting for the enemy.
Warrant? We donβt need no stinkinβ warrant. Highly disappointed by Mike Johnsonβs take on this.
Our Intel immunity is highly political and destructive.
Gee, maybe one of the big reasons for the UniParty refusing to do ANYTHING to secure our borders and purposefully allowing in all the terrorists, criminals and single male military aged invaders, affiliated with who-knows-what entities, was to give them an excuse to continue the illegal FISA system to spy on Americans? They need this abusive, corrupt FISA system to target/destroy their political opponents and to continue to build their Totalitarian Police State.
How much do you want to bet the next stage is some coordinated false flag terrorist attacks (Oct 7-style?) that will then give Biden the excuse to declare a “national emergency” and cancel the election? Do you think it might be timed just before Biden would be forced to face Tump on the debate stage? Without a wire in his ear, (or LOL perhaps they would try to pull off a body double?) there’s no way Biden’s mental incapacity would not be outed before the entire world.
It’s not a surprise that millions of Americans believe the Deep State is capable of literally anything to try to stop Trump in order to protect their power and their crime syndicate. After witnessing the years-long illegal Lawfare persecution against Trump and how they handled the covid pandemic, we already know that to these sociopaths life is cheap, they hate our Constitution, and they hate us. How could it be otherwise when per the Biden/Fauci enterprise, they withheld effective medical treatment that they knew very well would help people recover from covid and instead let millions die? (Destroying physician’s careers in the process when they tried to protest and advocate for their patients) Do you think it’s a coincidence that in the ensuing public panic this circumstance enabled them to push the mandates for the dangerous experimental vaccines for which their cronies all made $millions, and which enabled them to lock down society, selectively destroy businesses and livelihoods, and change election laws to make it easier to steal the 2020 election? And let’s not forget how our IC has been running cover for the ChiCom’s Wuhan bioweapon lab and put the kibosh on any real investigation into the origins of the covid19 virus. What’s next?
It will be a serious laugh if they try to pull off cancelling the 2024 election and try to convince us that during “an emergency” our national security is in safer hands with the crooked,rotting,stuffed Cabbage-Head in the WH, who’s mentally incapable of even taking a non-scripted question from the press, than holding a national election where he and his evil, seditious handlers could be booted OUT.
Go read Debbie Leskos, Republican Rep from Arizona, explaining she would have voted against FISA and for the Amendment requiring a warrant be obtained, thus would have broken the tie 212 – 212 by being the 213th vote on Twitter/X but couldnβt attend yesterday BECAUSE SHE HAD THE FLU!!! ππ€£ππ€£π
Pathetic
Guessing General Washington didnβt take a sick day on the day of an important battle
Why is everyone afraid to be a hero?
They’ll all be asking for your vote in November.
MAGA
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