Let me be very clear about something. FISA-702 authorization expires April 19th. Almost every single person of influence in DC knows the Intelligence Community will not stop exploiting the NSA database, regardless of the expiration.
Meaning, with or without authority, the Gang-of-Eight, Office of the Presidency (Executive branch), Legislative Branch, and every institution within the DC system, all collectively accept the FBI, DOJ, NSD, DNI and DHS will still use the database.
From that perspective, reauthorization of 702 only seeks to make lawful what the IC will do unlawfully without it.
Please think about that last sentence carefully as you consider who runs our system of government.
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Thankfully, President Trump understands how the FISA system is used as the main tool of the IC to retain power. Specifically, without legal use of 702 authority – and if the IC was held to account for the violations therein – all of the power could shift dramatically in the DC system.
However, key people in congress make money from reauthorizing 702. Think about how those 10,000 workstations are used, and for what purposes over 1.1 million “illegal database searches” could be exploited in Biden’s first year.
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).
[OIG Testimony HERE]
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 and outside the rules.
Additionally, IG Horowitz also admitted that somewhere north of 10,000 federal employees have access to conduct these searches of the NSA database; a database which contains the electronic data of every single American, including emails, text messages, social media posts, instant messages, direct messages, phone calls, geolocation identifiers, purchases by electronic funds, banking records and any keystroke any American person puts into any electronic device for any reason.
If we were in a functioning system of government everything would be stopped and no conversation would be taking place that was not about this issue. This is the total and complete surveillance state being talked about as if we were discussing what’s for dinner.
This was beyond jaw-dropping.
Context: In 2018 CTH revealed through research of their own documents that FBI and DOJ/FBI contractors had done more than 1,000 illegal searches using the NSA database, targeting Republican primary candidates from November 2015 through May 2016. These stunning admissions were from the DOJ’s own reporting to the FISA court.
Few were paying attention.
Although the number of the illegal search queries were redacted, we know the number is four digits from the size of the redacted text. More than 1,000 and less than 9,999.
FAST FORWARD TO 2023 – April 27, 2023,
IG Horowitz outlined that more than 1.1 million illegal searches of this database were conducted in 2021 during the first year of the Joe Biden administration.
Additionally, and perhaps more consequentially, to give scope to how the process of total domestic surveillance has expanded, Horowitz now admits in 2021 the number of federal government employees with access to this total metadata collection system now exceeds 10,000 people.
STOP THE PRESSES!
Yes, congress is talking about this ‘as if’ there is some level of importance. However, the basic questions are not being asked, or have perhaps just become so accepted that legislators have become oblivious to the insanity of it. Beyond the blood boiling questions about searching the NSA database, questions like:
In order for these search queries to take place, there has to be a housing facility to capture it.
Where is all of this electronic data being stored?
Why is all of this electronic data being stored?
Who is in control of this all-encompassing electronic data collection?
Forget the searches for a moment, what act of congress authorized the capture of this private data collection? Essentially electronic intercepts of communication systems that flow throughout our life.
The background context here is congress debating the renewal of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the power of the DOJ and FBI to intercept American citizen communication and electronic data via the “702” authorizations, that permit the NSA database to be searched and queried.
If the inspector general is now admitting the FISA laws have been so comprehensively corrupted such that 3.4 million searches by more than 10,000 federal employees and government contractors now have access, there is no way that any reasonably intelligent person should support such reauthorization. Even contemplating this request is absurd, beyond absurd.
The United States government is admitting to the public that a total and comprehensive surveillance state is currently in place, and 10,000 federal government agents have the authorization to monitor everything we do.
This is the admitted and current status of RIGHT NOW. And we are worried about ‘digital currencies’ or ‘social credit scores’ sometime in the future?
Have we totally lost connection to the reality of our current condition?
Can you see the insanity of it?… Or should we just ask, “what’s for dinner?”
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BREAKING: DOJ Inspector General ADMITS that the FBI has done 3.4 million warrantless “backdoor searches!”
Over a MILLION of which were in error. pic.twitter.com/t9VcVp4iYx
— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) April 27, 2023
With FISA being for ‘Foreigners’ it should be illegal, without a warrant, to use it on Americans.
When Trump wins in November, his administration can use their blind, independent & fair DOJ, the 2024 renewed FISA 702 tool on Democrats for the next 4 years.
Sure, Boromir.
President Trump already has all the evidence he needs to bring to trial (military or civilian) the entire 2,000 to 3,000 central actors in this drama of betrayal, grift, theft, and treason.
Time to melt the Ring of Power.
A trial is only as good as the jury pool and judge assigned to hear it. Such a trial would be in Washington DC.
Our MAGA super-majority in the Senate and House will vote to “re-organize” the judiciary.
No more DC circuit. That one will be dissolved and dispersed.
Because these cases affect the entire nation, the venues will be moved to points across the nation.
Tyler, Texas. Peoria, Illinois. Mobile, Alabama. Boise, Idaho. Fort Wayne, Indiana. You get the picture.
Military Tribunals,
if guilty, exit the room to your choice (That’s America) Firing Squads, or Hangings.
No Quarter for GUILTY FILTHY LIBERALS
Why are you not including rINOse,,,,,and GovEmployees.
Yeah, and it should be illegal to rig elections. It should be illegal to shoot unarmed protesters. It should be illegal to fly in 330,000 aliens and drop them directly into US cities. It should be illegal to give classified documents to your ghostwriter.. etc. etc.
So, our real beef is with those who are supposed to bring those guilty of breaking the law to trial. On the rare occasion, they do their job, the penalties are laughable whether judge or jury. So, the question becomes who watches the watchers?
Perhaps this is why the constitution can only be upheld by an educated, God fearing people of integrity. Which people? God’s people.
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”Benjamin Franklin
The public is for the most part simply absent from this debate and if this were brought to the attention of many in many neighborhoods the response would be one of arrogant indifference. A simple fact.
Not completely accurate. The public mostly doesn’t know, and those that do mostly don’t understand. Those who do understand and want it to continue believe that they can use it to their advantage in some way.
Do not underestimate the size of the “I have nothing to hide, so I have nothing to fear” crowd that will just shrug this off once they are in the know.
And there is the problem in a nutshell.
These people don’t get that just because you don’t have anything to hide doesn’t mean the Feds don’t have something to hide and then find on your stuff. If they can monitor, they can access.
I agree. Same here in my neighborhood. They would either dismiss it as conspiracy spy novel stuff or they would just scoff it off because of ignorance.
The time is coming when we will just simply turn the phones and computers off, go to bartering or using cash until it’s worthless. I remember a time when we had no cell phones, let alone smart phones, and no computers, or smartTVs in the home, or anything that used WiFi, etc. We did just fine. It’s been a luxurious, and annoying, convenience – speaking of electronics. They can’t spy on you if you don’t open the window for them. Just sayin’ y’all.
Uh, so, they will just turn all the spy cameras at traffic intersections and on Interstates off and also those at restaurants, in stores, at public buildings and public walkways.
Deadline to renew FISA 702 is 19 April (Patriot’s Day – [irony]). It may seem surprising that Democrats voted to block the bill to renew 702. Per a commenter in the Gateway Pundit article, this nay vote ultimately protects the existing FISA setup, instead of engaging in reform of it.
The nay vote stopped amendments from being added. So the unconstitutional bill remains as it is. On or before April 19, it will be passed as it was, rather than letting it expire. And there will be no reforms made to it.
Not sure if that is correct, but it seems the only logical explanation for why all the Dems voted to block this recent bill.
And if true, that makes those 19 R votes seem questionable.
Or, I would guess, they are TERRIFIED of DJT turning it all back on them!
The only difference the outcome of the bill will make is how hard they have to work to hide what they are doing, so as to avoid tainting any prosecutions resulting from their abuse. They have the capability, and so, they will use it.
They are probably spying on Trump right now, as well as all the whistleblowers.
Can you see the insanity of it?… Or should we just ask, “what’s for dinner?”
Or should we ask WHO’S for dinner?
Check out D-SAC: Domestic Security Alliance Council: Public-Private partnership is now going online and identifying individuals who are against the “vaccines” and who believe in the importance of the second Amendment and labeling them as “domestic terrorists.” Someone tweeted a document which proved that is what they are doing.
As the fox said to Br’er Rabbit, “You should stay for dinner. My dinner.”
Thank you, Sundance. Wolverines need to speak up.
What can we possibly do about this? I write letters to my Congressman and Senators and get smarmy letters back; I limit my online shopping and use of the internet, and try to use ‘safe’ search engines, but here I am right now: online writing this. Is there something we can do?
Senator Frank Church (D-ID) on Meet the Press 1975:
In the need to develop a capacity to know what potential enemies are doing, the United States government has perfected a technological capability that enables us to monitor the messages that go through the air. These messages are between ships at sea, they could be between units, military units in the field. We have a very extensive capability of intercepting messages wherever they may be in the airwaves. Now, that is necessary and important to the United States as we look abroad at enemies or potential enemies. We must know, at the same time, that capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left such is the capability to monitor everything—telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There would be no place to hide.
If this government ever became a tyranny, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know. Such is the capability of this technology.
Now why is this investigation important? I’ll tell you why: because I don’t want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return.
The FISC, FISA, and Senate Select Committee on Intel were the results of the Church Committee hearings on illegal activity by he FBI and CIA.
the fisc, fisa and select committee failed. the checks are not working. why?
1.1 million “illegal” searches. Ever hear of anyone being prosecuted for “illegality”? Has their access to database been removed? Has anyone been fired?
There are passwords and logs showing each and every search. If I was Trump, every computer used for this would be confiscated and every person who logged in and did one of these searches would be fired, at a minimum. Then, each person that was the subject of a search would be notified of the nature and detail of that search.
When considering why Speaker Johnson has a completely different viewpoint on consequential policies than lowly Representative Johnson had, consider what mischief unfettered access to browse his every digital communication or transaction might be used for. Think there may be fodder for blackmail out there? Unquestionably.
Multiply that by every member in Congress, SCOTUS, all staff members, etc.
What part of GET A WARRANT does the Feds object to?
All of it.
They don’t need no stinking warrant.
Much of the same reasons as legislators can enact ex post facto laws and bills of attainder.
They are animated by a spirit of lawlessness. They aim to rule contrary to our founding documents, not govern with accountability to We The People.
Ending 702 will not end the US intel agencies’ ability to spy on Americans. But it will make it more inconvenient for them.
They have a history of using allied-nations’ spy agencies to do the spying for them. They used British, French, German, Australian and probably other intel agencies to feed Russia-gate. That is how they framed Popodopolous, Mike Flynn and Paul Manafort.
Abolish immigration.
Deport all illegals.
Stop naturalizing “new citizens”.
Return to historic ways of raising our own Americans.
Restore “trust” to our society, make American a good place to live again.
The opposite of the DC police state.
Oh man! Can you guys remember that time, when Trump was president and he signed a re-authorization of the FISA stuff? While they were using against him, and others in his administration? When all this was ‘public knowledge’?
lol. I do.
Friday afternoon the House refused to uphold the Constitution by requiring warrants for deep state spying on Americans – the Biggs amendment to require warrants failed by a 212-212 tie, and Speaker Johnson cast the deciding vote against the warrant requirement. Then the House passed FISA renewal by 273-147, with 126 Republicans voting to renew and only 88 Republicans voting against renewal. As Sundance predicted, a foregone result, but still infuriating. I’m glad to say my Representative Tim Burchett voted for warrants and against FISA renewal.