Ugh, it makes me sick to see these schemes as they are constructed and yet feel helpless to stop them from organizing. Remember which media outlets push the PR campaigns of the U.S. Govt. (1) CNN drives Dept of State; (2) Washington Post drives CIA; and (3) NYT/Politico advance the interests of the domestic intelligence apparatus.
With that in mind, here comes the Intelligence Community laying the groundwork for reauthorization of the FISA-702 surveillance system on American citizens.
They are so damned transparent in their agenda, the stenographers have even dropped “FISA,” the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, as the term within the construct. Now they are just calling it “702 reauthorization.”
(VIA POLITICO) – The intelligence community has a critical congressional ally in its bid to reauthorize a sweeping warrantless surveillance program. However, even he thinks its officials aren’t making a convincing enough case.
“One of the things the community’s got to do a better job of is explaining, in practical non-classified terms, how valuable this tool is,” Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Mark Warner (D-Va.) said in a recent brief interview. “And they’ve not done that as well as they should.”
Warner sits at the heart of what will be a months-long, knockout debate about whether to reauthorize the warrantless surveillance program, known as Section 702, by the end-of-year deadline. The program is designed to gather the electronic communications of foreigners abroad, but has the potential to sweep up those of Americans.
The Virginian, who argues continuing the program in some form is essential but is open to changes, will have his work cut out for him. Influential and newly emboldened House Republicans have made it clear they won’t let Section 702 stay alive without significant changes — if they support reauthorization at all — amid an all-time-low relationship with the Justice Department and the FBI.
And the intelligence community can also count Section 702 critics among House Democrats and senators in both parties, many of whom believe this is their best chance to force more limits on the program. (read more)
As most people are now aware, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) sits at the epicenter of how the surveillance state is weaponized against American citizens. It is the SSCI who helped create the surveillance network, and it is the SSCI who now seek to defend the unconstitutional system they have created.
Pretenses are being dropped, and you will note how in this reauthorization schedule they are dropping “foreign” communication with American citizens, as a limitation on the authority they have already usurped. Yes, it is factually true the ‘foreign’ aspect was always a ruse, a false premise, that granted the Dept of Justice, National Security Division (DOJ-NSD), and FBI legal authority to conduct intrusive Title-1 surveillance on any American citizen.
Well beyond the “cell phone metadata,” in the era of your portable transponder having internet and social media connection, just about everyone has metadata connected to a foreign person or entity. Use the Twitter app on your phone, you are connected to foreign entities. Use Instagram or Facebook, WhatsApp or Telegram, same/same/same/same.
TicTok? Fughetaboudit. The auspices of only looking at U.S. persons engaged in foreign contacts is totally moot.
The “702 authorities,” which is an innocuous term for a “U.S. Person“, permit DHS, DOJ, FBI and any national security apparatchik to open up your data and check you out. This is the reality of the modern era. This total surveillance reauthorization is what the SSCI wants to permit. It must be stopped completely. It cannot be “reformed.”
4th Amendment – “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
Either you are secure from federal search of your “private papers,” as outlined in the United States Constitution, or you are not.
There is no aspect of this “702” nonsense, where a secret court grants a secret authorization, to engage in secret surveillance, by some secret entity of government – which might be a contractor, just to “see if” you might be doing something suspicious, or against the interests of the federal government. The premise behind “702” reauthorization is unconstitutional.
How strongly do I feel about this?
I will openly campaign against any politician or candidate who does not fully endorse the elimination of FISA 702 Authorization in sum and total. I don’t care who the candidate is, or what his/her political affiliation might be.
I am sick and tired of having to construct communication systems, to engage in ordinary conversation and/or communication, knowing the biggest challenge is to construct the system to defend ordinary people against unconstitutional searches and seizures. Ironically, this includes the very commenting system you are using to share any opinion of this outline. This domestic surveillance system just needs to be stopped.
Steps off soapbox.
Love to all, but sheesh this is frustrating….
Wonder why the government gives out free cell phones to illegal immigrants and people on welfare. Everyone is being monitored. Even more so if you’ve been targeted. They are indeed afraid. Social media is government surveillance in action. And they be worried about Chinese TikTok.
Ever see the winter snow, cleans the earth. Everything is subject to nature, everything. How many stiff necked civilizations are gone from dedication to force not God. I’d say all except present, and we get to watch another fall, the privilege of judgement.
Palerider – “Nothing like a good piece of hickory.” 😀
Does a Godless Nation deserve better? We have good people in America but we have allowed the commies we voted for to eradicate God from everywhere and we, having fun with the good economy we had for years, we didn’t pay attention and became apathetic to all this. So now we must suffer, this will bring us to our knees once again, we’ll be faithful to God and His commandments again, He’ll bless us, and you know the rest. Is the evolution of all empires. We’re falling like many other empires have, rotten from within.
I’m from Pennsylvania. What senator should I call? Fetterman or Casey ? Both are hospitalized, both could care less, both have deaf ears. We have no representative form of government.
I live in Florida. My deep state intelligence community supporter little Marco Rubio was just re elected over a hardcore marxist democrat. Both of them were bad choices. So often is the case for most of us. Not only are elections fixed, in most cases so are the candidates.
THAT’S why the system needs to go! Within their system, it is designed for them to win. Little Marco and rat crap Warner need to be removed…..asap and sent back to their districts to face their loving constituents…after we all know the Truth. I Am sure they will be welcomed with open arms. The day is coming though, going home for these traitors will not be an option for them….the only place they may feel a little safe is the swamp DC. But eventually, even there the plug will be pulled and the swirling down the drain of all the remaining rats will be completed! Hopefully it will suck all the lying fake media down with it!
Yes, praying this will happen sooner rather than later!
I would work on the MSM first.Without them,they are blind,deaf,dumb and STUPID.
I saw a meme the other day that said doctors and virologist should wear lab coats with patches with all their sponsors on it like a NASCAR driver. I think it goes for politician as well. Blue patched jackets.
Same for our elected officials.
Great idea!!!
That’s right, remembergoliad.
Why, in this Obiden economy, I can’t even afford to buy a Congressman!
Our state Republican (and democrat) Party, as well as the RNC and DNC, are the people that decide who runs in the primaries. All of those entities are privately incorporated.
The choices we have are chosen for us by private corporations.
Think about that.
Marco makes me puke.
His Heart does NOT belong to Uncle Sam!
Every time I see Rubio’s smug face I wonder what kind of lies he told to gain Sarah Palin’s support. Dude must be real, real slick. No way Rubio would be a U.S. Senator without Sarah Palin’s endorsement. Deep state destroyed Palin and welcomed fork-tongue Rubio with open arms. Marco Rubio is lying, squirming toad.
The only “job” these representatives have is to stand between their donors and pitchforks
The 17th Amendment purportedly allowed for the popular election of US Senators. As our elections are now largely shams, US citizens are no longer represented in Congress, and particularly not in the Senate. Those people work for entities other than the American Citizens.
Yup. The House was intended to protect the People’s rights.
The Senate was supposed to protect the States’ rights.
Now, neither of them look out for either citizen or state, but only for themselves.
Repeal the 17th!
As we all know full well, regardless of who wants to try to pretend to be in denial.
Hear, Hear. Right there with ya Barry. PA has been gone since Rendell showed up.
LOL both of your guys are dead from the neck up anyway.
I’m in MA. The Senators are the psychotic Fake Indian and Markey, a guy who looks more like a walking corpse than Biden.
To make matters worse, the Rep of my district is the shiny headed bald chick squad member.
For some time, much talk that THE enemy is within (us, govt, abc agencies, politicians) and NOT China nor Russia. ALL propaganda from inside the USA. Has always had a real feel, but now becoming very evident, China & Russis are used as pawns to propogate fear and distrust and anger among we the people.
We call them “Straw Men”.
It is always going to be our burden, SD. Press on.
This is the same line they always use.
They haven’t quit been able to dumb down the explanation enough so the riff raff can understand how a massive surveillance state benefits us, the citizens.
If only we could understand.
They are magnanimous in accepting the blame for our apparent stupidity.
I have posted your article on gettr, and will keep reposting it, sending people to CTH to read another of your awesome articles. But this one is also very important. There’s an ever growing following on gettr of Sundance’s amazing analysis of the facts. Thank you for your dedication and honesty and to the entire CTH Treepers.
Criminals are gonna do what criminals gonna do.
No surprise here. Remember how towel boy Marco Rubio got his seat through the Tea Party thrust, what a disappointment.
Remember Trent Lott saying: “We don’t need a lot of Jim DeMint disciples,” Lott said in an interview [with the Washington Post]. “As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them.” Hmmm…interesting turn of phrase huh, and what did he mean by co-opt?
But Lott followed and said he’s not expecting a tea-party sweep. “I still have faith in the visceral judgment of the American people,”
Marco is the perfect example of what Lott meant, fully co-opted and under swamp control.
“Co-opt” = corrupt.
I’m with you.
I remember getting into an argument with Andy McCarthy and one of his friends about this on Twatter during the last renewal. The “muh institutions” folks, the ones that put their life vests on and stay in their cabins as the ship rolls over.
Remember when Seb Gorka claimed his Internet traffic had been rerouted to so as to make it foreign communication?
I don’t care what they say, I can what they’ve done. They have proven themselves incapable of wielding their power in a just and fair manner. 702 is a travesty and should not be renewed.
Name Changing to mask any bad or suspicious feelings from the past. Like changing Arthur Andersen to Accenture after Enron; changing Facebook to Meta after Zuckerberg pays for all kinds of election rigging.
This getting rid of TIK TOK in government cell phones, is a deception. These people called the Elites, are used to languishing in money, power, control. Don’t think they will just toss this out overnight, to become the caring, nurturing persons, that they can never become. Bluebirds don’t sing in dark, black souls.
Calling my senators today.
NC may finally have 1 with some sense.
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act–FISA.
The “F” is for “Foreign”.
By which Acting President Obama means “Domestic”. As in “American”.
That’s because, to this wicked Regime, America is Foreign, a distant enemy to be conquered and subjugated.
But there’s is the Foreign Government of Occupation that is doomed to fall.
Daniel 5:25-26
25 And this is the inscription that was written, mene, mene, tekel, upharsin—numbered, numbered, weighed, divisions.
26 This is the interpretation of the matter: mene, God has numbered the days of your kingship and brought them to an end;
Amen and Amen!
“The means of defense against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.“
James Madison – Speech, Constitutional Convention (June 29, 1787)
This is the main reason they will never shutdown the internet and cell phone networks. Those things are their eyes and ears.
Once people realize that, things will change. Quickly.
Your passion is contagious.
Posting this for the few.
FAITH and FIREARMS
“But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the Faith and is worse than an unbeliever.” 1 Timothy 5:8
Fathers and husbands are required by Almighty God to provide for their families. This includes not only providing food, housing, clothing, education, medical care, love, discipleship and spiritual guidance, but also protection. Of what worth is all the other provision if one does not provide protection as well? Anyone who fails to provide for their family has denied the Faith and is worse than an unbeliever. In fact, those who refuse to protect their young are worse than an animal. What animal will not fight to protect its offspring?
Our Lord Jesus Christ told His disciples that:
“He who has no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one.” Luke 22:36
The Law of God is clear. “If the thief is found breaking in, and he is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt for his bloodshed.” Exodus 22:2
The Law of God establishes the basic right of self-defence. Any person is justified in defending himself, or his family, whenever they are attacked or their lives are endangered. Any weapon is permissible for use in self-defence. The Law of God does not say that the homeowner is guilty if he uses a sword, but innocent if he uses a club. The issue is not one of weapons, but the right and duty of self-defence.
Resistance to Tyranny. During a slide presentation at a church in America, the pastor objected to the Christians in Sudan taking up arms against the Sudanese government. He was much offended by the prevalence of fire arms in the hands of Sudanese Christians. So I asked what Christians in America celebrate on the 4th July? He seemed somewhat confused, so I reminded him that their Founding Fathers had unilaterally declared Independence from Great Britain on 4 July 1776. The British called it a rebellion.
The American colonists took up arms against the Crown because the British had failed to rule the Americans in accordance with Magna Carta of 1215 and the English Declaration of Rights of 1689. King George had violated his coronation oath. The American Founding Fathers maintained that the British government was no longer an authority to be submitted to, but a tyrannical power to be resisted. How then could Americans object to Christians in Sudan doing what they had done in 1776?
Protecting our Families. I then pointed out that, in the entranceway to their church, they had a framed, colour picture on the wall, of early American settlers walking to church, carrying their rifles with their Bibles. I reminded him that many churches in America, in the 17th Century, fined men if they came to church without a rifle! 1 Timothy 5:8 requires men to make provision for their family and declares that any who fail to do so deny the Faith and are worse than an unbeliever. Churches penalised men who showed such irresponsibility as to fail to carry a weapon for the defence of their family.
I then had to point out that in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan, today, with slave raiders kidnapping children, burning crops, looting cattle, poisoning wells, destroying churches and crucifying pastors, is far more dangerous than America was in the 1600s.
Firearms and Ministries Far from Christians in the previous centuries having an aversion to firearms, not only were swords and firearms freely brought into many church buildings, but the pastors were often some of the best shots in town. During the American War of Independence, many pastors served as officers in the Continental Army under General George Washington, fighting for Independence.
Firearms and MissionariesPioneer missionary, William Carey, whose landmark book, An Inquiry into the Obligation of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathen (the book which launched the modern missionary movement) listed as essential equipment for any missionary: “Knives, powder and shot.”
Pioneer missionary and explorer Dr. David Livingstone, who first landed in Africa in 1840, was well equipped with some of the most advanced weapons then available, including a six-barrelled revolver and a double-barrelled rifle. On occasion David Livingstone was compelled to use his weapons for protection from wild beasts and to persuade slave traders to set the captives free. At one point, after his party had been compelled to shoot back at Muslim slave traders, Livingstone responded to criticism saying: “I love peace as much as any mortal man. In fact, I go quite beyond you, for I love it so much I would fight for it.”
Bishop McKenzie, of the Church Missionary Society, was involved in several fire fights against slave traders in the Shire Valley of present day Malawi. He set many captives free.
Francis McDougal, the first bishop of Labuan, reported an attack by pirates in 1862: “My double-barrelled torry’s breach loader proved a most deadly weapon, for it’s true shooting and certainty and rapidity of firing.”
Many religious readers today would be shocked and horrified to read such reports in present day missionary newsletters. Perhaps the comfortable and prosperous surroundings that most Christians in the West have enjoyed for so long have blinded us to the harsh realities that most Christians throughout the centuries, and in less fortunate parts of the world today, have had to face. An unbiblical pacifism has gripped many western Christians.
When world famous cricketer, turned pioneer missionary, C.T. Studd, undertook the first baptisms in a river in the Congo, he needed to fight off crocodiles with a revolver in one hand, while baptising the new converts with the other! C.T. Studd established his Heart of Africa Mission (what later became known as Worldwide Evangelisation Crusade (WEC) in the heart of cannibal country. He had been drawn to the Congo in response to a poster declaring: Cannibals Need Missionaries!!
Mary Slessor, pioneer missionary to Calabar (modern day Nigeria), included “maxim machine guns” in her prayer letter request back to the home country. This was to counter the threat of slave traders in Nigeria.
Adoniram Judson, America’s first foreign missionary to Burma, was captured on the high seas, and incarcerated in a French prison, from which he escaped. Later he was imprisoned and tortured in a Buddhist prison in Burma for 18 months.
David Livingstone was mauled by a lion and endured multiple attacks on his life by slave traders.
John Paton, missionary to the cannibals in New Hebrides islands, described being encircled by cannibals “in a deadly ring and one kept urging another to strike the first blow.”
Faith and Action. Missionaries such as these faced dangers which we can hardly imagine. We should not be too quick to judge and condemn others for doing what the Bible commands them to do – to take reasonable precautions for self-defence and for the protection of their families. Yes, of course, the primary weapons of missionaries are the Bible, prayer, faith and persuasion. Just as our primary spiritual food is the Word of God. But that does not stop us planting seeds, harvesting crops, shopping and preparing food!
Christians must be balanced and we need to recognise that sin comes from the heart of man (Mark 7:21-23). There is no point blaming a tool, a cold metal inanimate object, for the evil in men’s hearts.
Pacifism is Unbiblical… – the rest is at:
https://www.frontlinemissionsa.org/gun-control–self-defense/faith-and-firearms
Yes, Sundance. This is what’s missing.
“Colonel Paris Davis was denied the Medal of Honor for decades after he risked his own life to save others in Vietnam.
This week, we made that right. Proud to play a small part in getting the paperwork sped up so he could finally be commended for his tremendous bravery. pic.twitter.Com/IpA5CNaU2W
— Mark Warner (@MarkWarner) March 4, 2023″
Good ole Mark Warner. Such a patriot! / BIG SARC!….Warner is a Traitor!
Mark Warner. (spit)
All depends on who is defining the adjective “Unreasonable”……..
If you are interested in a book about the Washington Post’s cozy role with the CIA, here is a good one:
https://archive.org/details/katharinegreatka0000davi_l0o8/mode/2up
Hey FBI.
Suck me.
That is all Sundance. Pls pardon the language.
AMEN, Amen, Amen, Amen and Amen! May the Grace of our Living God of Heaven be with you and Breathe His Holy Spirit upon you into your entire Being, and Cover/Saturate you there with All That He IS, Divinely encompassing you with His Protection and Grace and all that is of His Personal Enfranchisement as belonging to Him, and breathing of His Resurrection Power and Sustenance Forever. John 20:22.
American style justice and intelligence-gathering operations have degenerated into a state of corrupt, wicked criminality. There is nothing they do that inspires confidence or hope. All personnel in U.S. FEDGOV bureaucracy should walk away from their jobs. Every bureaucrat knows they are participating in building out the North American Totalitarian State. They know it. And they stay anyway for the salary, the perks, the retirement they’ve been promised. The U.S. intelligence community has it tentacles in every FEDGOV department; no area of governance no matter how small or insignificant is overlooked. U.S. Intel really is the eye of Sauron. The intelligence community is guiding the bureaucratic state into totalitarianism. You know it, I know it, every bureaucrat in the U.S.A. knows it, and yet the lies and the corruption only increase. If you’ve been thinking there is more to all this wickedness than ordinary human fallibility, you are not alone.
Naomi Wolf worked to help get Bill Clinton elected. Willy Jeff’s admin gave big legs to the totalitarian impetus of lawfare and government workers being above the law. Until 2020 MizWolf was satisfied with how things were progressing in the U.S.A. Now she is having some very serious second thoughts and has written an eloquent well-documented substack report outlining the burgeoning epiphany taking place in her life. It’s pretty amazing to read, in first person, of the awakening of an intelligent woman who has lived her whole life, until now, as devotee of secular humanism. Have a look:
https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/have-the-ancient-gods-returned
“I will openly campaign against any politician or candidate who does not fully endorse the elimination of FISA 702 Authorization in sum and total. I don’t care who the candidate is, or what his/her political affiliation might be.”
Thank you SD – You’re 100% Right in sum and total!!
Go Sundance.. Cold Fury…
No thx.
We cannot trust any longer.
Who were the private companies who received data?
What do they do with it?
When will all those whose privacy was invaded be informed and what is their remedy?
Answer those and more and maybe, just maybe then with clear penalties for those impacted and notification of those harmed is included in the language.
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA): This law was passed in 2008 to legalize President George W. Bush’s warrantless wiretapping program.
I am more concerned about the MOU identified earlier on this site. Because it seems to allow the Foreign Intelligence community to bypass the restrictions on the American citizens surveillance.