This statement by Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner is so fraudulent in narrative construct it’s almost ridiculous. “SEN. WARNER: Let’s remember what 702 is. It is the ability for the United States government to surveil, listen in, on non-Americans foreigners who are abroad.”
Absolutely nothing about this statement is accurate. Foreigners do not have U.S constitutional protection. All foreign communications can be intercepted without issue, without FISA.
FISA-702 authority only pertains to Americans. The term “702” is specifically referencing private communication with/by an American. WATCH Warner lie:
TRANSCRIPT BELOW:
MARGARET BRENNAN: We begin today with the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mark Warner. Good morning, and good to have you here.
SENATOR MARK WARNER (D-VA): Thank you, Margaret.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So- Senator $61 billion in aid to Ukraine, about 60% of that stays as an investment into the US industrial base, as I understand it. President Zelenskyy said this morning on another network, it’s important that they get crucial long range artillery, like ATACMS, is that what this money will pay for? And if so, when will they actually get them?
SEN. WARNER: Well,the great news is, this is finally happening. It should have happened six months ago. The next best time is right now, this week. We’ve seen the Ukrainians overperform. If you step back for a moment and think about the fact that for most of my life, most of America’s defense forces were focused on Russia. Now and the last two years, with less than 3% of our defense budget, two years running, with the Ukrainians have eliminated 87% of the Russians pre existing ground forces, 63% of their tanks, 32% of their armored personnel carriers, without a single American soldier lost, because of the courage of the Ukrainians, and the equipment they’ve received from us, and from our European allies. Getting this additional equipment as quickly as possible- I hope once this gets to the President by Tuesday or Wednesday, that these shipments will be literally launched with that longer range ATACM–
MARGARET BRENNAN
— By next week?
SEN. WARNER: I hope once the President signs, we’ve been told that there is it is the President signature, making sure Congress does its job that these materials will be in transit by the end of the week. And on that schedule, what it will do is it’s clearly been the case that the Ukrainians morale has been great, but it’s been undermined over the last couple of months, when they have been literally given out rationed bullets, eight to 10 bullets a day. And on artillery shells, Russians ten to one, you can’t underestimate that Ukrainians’ grit, determination, but if they don’t have the materials, they can’t carry this fight to the Russians.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Will they get those long range artillery?
SEN. WARNER: Yes
MARGARET BRENNAN: Not just ammunition?
SEN. WARNER: The ATACMS- I believe the administration was prepared over the last couple of months to prepare or to provide ATACMS. It is written into this legislation.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Gotcha. So you talked about rebuilding the industrial base and what this does, okay. According to the State Department, China has helped Russia rebuild its defense industrial base, which has an impact on the battlefield as well here. How have they been able to just blow through US sanctions or defy them to help the Russians, who are fighting Ukraine?
SEN. WARNER: Well, if we look back again, I think we would all acknowledge that the sanctions regime has not been as tight, as we like to see. China being the worst offender with direct military support. India, a country I’m very supportive of, but India in terms of purchasing Russian oil and giving that hard currency to Russia, for them to go out into the marketplace and acquire arms. It’s one of the reasons why I think this package, which the House just passed, we will take up this week, that says, we have to be ready to be prepared for our national security interests, not only in Ukraine and Russia, also in terms of military assistance to Israel, but with additional humanitarian aid for the Palestinians who are in such great challenges. And there’s about eight or $9 billion for the Indo Pacific region because of the concern that we have about China’s aggressiveness towards Taiwan. Clearly, the Chinese linkage to Russia, combined with the fact that the Iranians are- are providing drones, for example, for Russia and the outlier nation, North Korea. I know the terminology used to be Axis of Evil, this may be the 2024 Axis of Evil combination of nations.
MARGARET BRENNAN: And Speaker Johnson has used that language. One of the other things that the House voted to do was move this TikTok bill through. So this would force the Chinese own parent company ByteDance, to divest it- to sell it, but they have the better part of a year to do so. The Chinese government says they’re not going to allow that. ByteDance doesn’t want to sell it. So if this just gets stuck in the courts isn’t the reality that TikTok is not going away?
SEN. WARNER: Well, what we’ve done and I’ve been arguing this case for well, over a year, I had a broad bipartisan bill that said, let’s look at these, not just Chinese, Chinese, Russian technology companies in a broader basis where they have a day in court, but if they pose national security risks, I mean, a couple years back, it was the Chinese telecom company Huawei. We- many American telcos bought them and we’re now spending American taxpayer dollars to rip those equipment out because there are national security risks. Huawei- I- TikTok, 170 million Americans a day, 90 minutes a day–
MARGARET BRENNAN: — Right.
SEN. WARNER: That’s frankly, more than the power of eyes that your network reaches on a daily basis. And that information and many young people on TikTok get their news, the idea that we would give the Communist Party this much of a propaganda tool as well as the ability to scrape 170 million American- million Americans personal data, it is a national security risk.
MARGARET BRENNAN: It is a national security risk, according to US intelligence community, that has a direct impact potentially on US elections. TikTok accounts–
SEN. WARNER: — On US elections this year–
MARGARET BRENNAN: — Yeah- targeted candidates from both political parties during the midterm cycle in 2022. That’s the Worldwide Threat Assessment–
SEN. WARNER:– This is a–
MARGARET BRENNAN: — TikTok is not going away before November.
SEN. WARNER:–Well, here is the–
MARGARET BRENNAN: –so that means it’s an active threat.
SEN. WARNER: There is plenty of creativity on TikTok, there are people that make their living off of TikTok as social influencers. I don’t want that to go away. I simply want to make sure that the individuals pulling the strings are not ultimately functionaries of the Communist Party of China.
MARGARET BRENNAN: I understand, But even with this significant bill, the timeline is such that it doesn’t take it away as a risk for the election. And it seems the US government is so limited in so many ways when it comes to these election influence efforts.
SEN. WARNER: The timeline of giving– this committee a complicated transaction, to give it up to a full year, I think just from a business standpoint, makes sense. The one thing we do have in place, and I’m not putting a whole lot of solace in this but I was at the Munich Security Conference earlier in the year ear when all 20 of the major social media companies, including Tik Tok, including Twitter, X, including Facebook, Google, Amazon, you name it, they have all said they would have a voluntary agreement about disinformation and misinformation and elections because with artificial intelligence, the ability for people to see this our images here, maybe having words that we don’t speak-
MARGARET BRENNAN: Right.
SEN. WARNER: Is out- scare the dickens out of all of us. And the truth is, you know, these 20 companies have a guaranteed voluntary agreement, they’ll take on watermarking, which will indicate it ultra-ultra content, be willing to take this content down, but the proof is gonna be in the pudding. The parliamentary elections in Europe start in less than 60 days. So we are going along with our European partners to say all right, companies you promised, show us what you’re doing.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So this other measure that was approved as well, Section 702, it’s a key surveillance tool, was reauthorized for two years instead of five. Take a listen to what the CIA director told my colleague Norah O’Donnell Friday about how his agency is using this authority.
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BILL BURNS, DIRECTOR OF THE CIA: It’s reauthorization, its passage, I think, is a crucial tool to fight fentanyl because something like 70% of all the successful disruptions of fentanyl traffic moving into the United States that we’ve been a part of have come directly from intelligence derived from 702.
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MARGARET BRENNAN: So these changes to 702. How does it help fight the trafficking of fentanyl? What difference is there?
SEN. WARNER: Let’s remember what 702 is. It is the ability for the United States government to surveil, listen in, on non Americans foreigners who are abroad. And many times the fentanyl drug cartels are being run out of Mexico, many times supplied with basic goods out of China. And this ability to listen in on the bad guys’ communications is extraordinarily powerful. Matter of fact, the President gets a daily brief of all of the intelligence hotspots around the world. Sixty percent, Sixty percent, of what he reads each day, is material that comes out of the 702 program. Now, let me be clear, there have been times in the past where particularly the FBI didn’t even follow its own rules on making sure that a foreign individual, foreign terrorist that might be talking to American, that we put appropriate protections on that American
MARGARET BRENNAN: That led to some of this Republican criticism.
SEN. WARNER: What independent of some of the debate on the bill, and I was proud to be, as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, the person leading the charge on the bill. But five years ago, the FBI itself was screwing up on 30% of their queries, just meeting their own criteria. We put in place reforms. The screw up level has dropped from about 30% to less than 1%. We put requirements so that you can no longer do batch queries. We got to make sure FBI agents have to show a national security purpose. If a journalist or a political figure or a religious figure, were even to be query- query about, you have to get approval from me, the director, the deputy director, or head, the National Security Division. We think we’ve got a very strong reform bill. It’s why it passed the Senate 60 to 33. And- but I also need to say that the- the folks who are against this, they have- they have a right. We need to have the kind of strict oversight. We need to constantly be wary of the government’s misuse or overuse of these tools. And I think we had a good spirited debate on Friday night.
MARGARET BRENNAN All right, Senator, so much to talk to you about good to have you here in person.
SEN. WARNER: Thank you, Margaret.
Look at Senator Warner obfuscating, lying and gaslighting about FISA-702. He switches from FISA surveillance (phone or data intercepts) to electronic “search queries” of Americans’ data without even noting the gibberish of his conflation.
Literally everything in that construct by Senator Mark Warner is a lie and it doesn’t even make sense. FISA-702 abuses take place with intercepts of private communication without a warrant, and with database searches of electronic records without a warrant.
The 702 part of FISA is the aspect of any search query or intercept that has to do with an American citizen who has Fourth Amendment protection from warrantless searches and seizures. Everything said by Senator Warner is false.
They lie; you know they’re lying; they know you know they’re lying; they just don’t give a damn!
Someone needs to remind Warner that the Soviet Union was disolved in the 80’s and Russia is not the Boggey man of the world. We were allies with the Soviets in WWII and their loses were higher than any other nation. 27 million. As my late uncle who served in WWII in Italy used to say…” If it wasn’t for the Soviets we’d all be speaking German”
Does Warner truly believe Russia is or will be on the verge of defeat?
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-hccc-worldhistory2/chapter/casualties-of-world-war-ii/
Russia lives in his head rent free.
Yeah? Well it is costing the rest of us a lot!
“Rent free”… and you usually get what you pay for… IMESHO, mark makes me wonder if some Neanderthals survived after all.
I recall someone saying… oh, about a dozen years ago… The 1980s are calling, they want their foreign policy back.
I am beginning to detest the phrase — “Let Me Be Clear”.
Yep, hello! — you are lying thru your teeth!
“That’s no joke!”. Joey Two Scoops primary lying “tell”.
What a lying scumbag. And no pushback on him saying Ukraine has eliminated 87%!!!! of “pre existing” Russian ground forces and 63% of their tanks.
This government is demonic. Look at this guy, the evil is eating him alive.
Everyone join me in prayer……..the spectacle of the district of spontaneous combustion. Lol😆
Do you believe in God?
Do you care about your country?
Do you love your family?
Do you care about existence at all?
If yes to any or all of these questions, then this monster, and many more like him, LITERALLY HATE YOU.
Is this DeepState or is it really FiveEyes? Or even larger? The yellow / gray map of the World is amazing close to following the pattern of FiveEyes. Seems like ALL of the FiveEyes countries are going thru the exact upheavals that we are with out-sourcing manufacturing (middle-class) jobs to Chine, manic rush to go “green” and shun petroleum energies, encourage and coddle illegal immigration from any country of the World, promote and encourage bizarre and abnormal sexual and gender conditions, manipulation of agricultural product, processing and infrastructures and more. Further, each country in the G20 seems to be having upheavals in the governance institutions of each country. In the meantime, the number of CEO billionaires grow and get more powerful every day and these are the guys that collect politicians like bubble-gum cards. We’re like a cat, fighting the mirror.
Face the Propaganda
King Deep State Sits on a Stolen Throne
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/04/king_deep_state_sits_on_a_stolen_throne.html
All hail King Deep State! That is essentially what we have now, is it not? An unelected, all-powerful, mercurial king — and certainly not a binding constitution limiting government’s authority and preserving Americans’ rights.
Our First Amendment forbids Congress from restricting an individual’s free speech, but that hasn’t stopped King Deep State from conspiring with Big Tech to silence every voice deemed offensive to the realm.
Our Fourth Amendment forbids nosy officials from poking around in Americans’ private records and communications without first securing particularized warrants establishing probable cause that a crime has been committed, but that hasn’t stopped King Deep State from rummaging through our emails, text messages, and bank statements or eavesdropping on our intimate phone conversations in the name of “national security.”
Our Second Amendment forbids the government from infringing the people’s right to keep and bear arms, but that hasn’t stopped King Deep State from restricting gun purchases, tracking gun owners, and disarming those he doesn’t like.
The Bill of Rights doesn’t mean much when King Deep State uses it as royal toilet paper.
Thank God I’ve found a home. If you knew what has happened to me and my associates, you would be shocked at what The DS can and does and will get away with. Communism wrapped in an American Flag. It’s worse then Orwell’s 1984. Mind Control, Silent Sound Subliminal Programming, remote neural monitoring and the illegal dissemination of private secure info to screwballs who doxxed me at an online forum (Godlike Productions) run a cut out for Air Force cyber command (?) or NorthComm? I’ve been harassed and targeted for at least 38 years across state lines. There has never been a minute of concern or interest from FBI or DOJ (both are supposed to enforce The Fed Crim Code that protects civil rights).
Something that really bothers me about pieces of garbage like Warner is how in their twisted sick lying ways, people’s lives are destroyed without a 2nd thought by him or trash like him. Somehow filth like him think they’re above the human carnage they create.
Gaslighting is right. They have lost more territory in the last few months. What they are doing is hoping they can keep this going until November. Biden’s cannot handle a loss to Russia in Ukraine before the election.
Gowdy Issa and Chaffetz just used the RINO sounding board named FOX to OPENLY LIE
that the GOP dissenters regarding proxy war funding are some kind of outliers!
this is not making believe…. its downright lying!
where are more polls on this??
EXCLUSIVE: Overwhelming Majority Of Swing State Voters Oppose More Ukraine Funding Without Border Deal, Poll Finds | The Daily Caller
Battleground state voters are growing hesitant on sending additional aid to Ukraine and are more focused on border security in the U.S. as border crossings and illegal immigrant apprehensions have hit record highs under the Biden administration, according to a poll obtained first by the Daily Caller.
The poll was conducted by The Heritage Foundation between April 2-4 and asked a group of 1,000 voters about what they believe is more important, sending more aid to Ukraine or protecting the southern border. Specifically, the voters were asked how close they are to paying attention to both topics, if protecting the border is more important than providing funds to Ukraine and what the best approach would be in handling both situations.
“The United States has already sent more than $113 billion in aid to Ukraine with no debate, no clear strategy, no spending offsets, and no real accountability. Alarmingly, two separate Pentagon audits reveal that large tranches of this funding are mostly unaccounted for. That’s unacceptable,” Roberts added. “Not a single U.S. taxpayer dollar should be going to Ukraine until our own borders are secure, Biden proposes a coherent strategy for ending the conflict, and full accountability for past and future funding secured. The American people know they deserve better and expect policies—and leaders—that put their country first. Congrhess would be wise to listen to them.”
The poll surveyed 1,000 Swing Voters in battleground states from April 2-4. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.1%.
The #1 reason these totalitarian Senators want FISA (warrantless spying) is to use it against political opponents and ANYONE who speaks up against them or the regime policies. That’s it. Has nothing to do with “national security”.
Important to note, nothing in The FISA law forces this court to ever give notice to targets of what was done and how. I have a real good idea about what sources, methods, tactics, technology was used on me for decades. I’m what is known as a “Targeted Individual” since at least 1985.
Lying liar lies, assisted by the bobblehead mockingbird across from him.
Warner can’t even imagine what it would be like to tell the truth. Lying is so ingrained in his brain, it is the only form of communication he knows. He is a genetic error similar to Biden. Their brains are formatted to lie. Accept it.
Deface the Nation.
These self-serving parasites have taken gaslighting beyond levels everseen before.
Like a clogged toilet this needs to be opened up and flushed out too.
“The IC often runs U.S. persons queries…” (last page on right side near bottom)
https://www.dni.gov/files/icotr/Section702-Basics-Infographic.pdf
I hope some smelly inbred Jihadi visits this disgusting POS…
Warner has always been lying garbage …this is nothing new. Virginia Democrats are some of the most virulent Anti-American scum living!
Another empty suit.
So 702 is being used for election fraud
Very nasty of him to use fighting fentanyl as an excuse.
This is from Senator Warner’s office: “drugs are overwhelmingly being smuggled through U.S. ports of entry. In response to CBP agents reporting finding pills in seat cushions, car batteries, metal walkers, and bicycle frames, the Senators are pushing for increased funding for security and surveillance for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).”
https://www.warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2023/10/warner-calls-for-increased-border-security-to-stop-flow-of-fentanyl-from-southern-border
That’s not a problem you can solve by listening in on communications.
This just came up in my Bible reading, another case of abusive government:
Matthew 2:18 In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
It is amazing. I am an old man and the lies that I have witnessed just makes my old head spin. No one tells the truth. It is an impossibility. No one wants to stop the liars. The foolishness is beyond belief.
Warner helped to orchestrate the RUSSIAN HOAX against Trump. He is a criminal and traitor to America.
So, surveillance/eavesdropping etc. Years ago, I’m working at a thrift store, and this lady waltze in, jabbering away so the whole store can hear, and from the sound of the conversation she’s employed at a law office, and she proceeds to give us all an earful of probably sensitive or confidential information about their client, without any concern about her ‘audience’. Hey, have some presence of mind about howwhy/where you use your mobile devices, eh. As for grubnetz, remember the teachings of the Great Shrub: ”Biltationers equals permisional.” Now, given what we have learned about netelegetz, including thee fact that we don’t have any, there next comes the question of what happens when foreign smartpeople hack in or move in to the apparatus thus created, and start using it as a weapon against americans, right under the noses of our federal management. China has apparently been spying on us electronically for decades. What could foreign hostiles and professional high-dollar thieves and politicians do to us, our country, our economy, using information thusly collected. What, indeed. This apparatus is being operated and directed by some highly questionable people in D.C. Meaga-STASI, basically. When the Wall came down, those east german govt. spies scurried off into the darkness and apparently scampered aboard a freighter bound for the U.S. and proceeded to lay eggs under Capitol Hill. Something like that. Nuke it from orbit, its the only way to be sure…
Also: Did you know its legal for women to have smartphones and be online? Makes ya think, dunnit. LOL
On the subject of gaslighting of which you speak, the person usually doing the gaslighting is hiding something. The 1994 movie “Gaslight” starred the late, great actor Charles Boyer, the great actresses Ingrid Bergman, Angela Lansbury. Sorry if this spoils the movie but gaslighting has become too prevelent in our society, to ignore. “After the death of her famous opera-singing aunt, Paula (Ingrid Bergman) is sent to study in Italy to become a great opera singer as well. While there, she falls in love with the charming Gregory Anton (Charles Boyer). The two return to London, and Paula begins to notice strange goings-on: missing pictures, strange footsteps in the night and gaslights that dim without being touched. As she fights to retain her sanity, her new husband’s intentions come into question.” Wikipedia – the secret that the charming Gregory Anton is hiding? He had tried to steal diamond jewelry from the famous Opera Singer (Paula’s aunt) and in the process he murdered her. He was gaslighting his wife to make her think she was crazy so he could find those diamonds. It’s a terrific movie.
1944 movie “Gaslight.”
Little margie and mark…. what a waste of time and electrons. The 100th show of Billy Joel got twice as many viewers as mark and margie. It is nice that TCTH reports on that drivel so that we don’t have to listen to it. It’s sad that the TV coverage and gubermint interviews continue to sink to new levels of ignorance.
he misspoke….the problem is there are no testicles in congress or any other branch of government.