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.
[START SOUND ON TAPE]
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.
[END SOUND ON TAPE]
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 truly do not think they are lying’ I know you are referring to only some of them but regardless…
thats a really hard sell…
I thought my password for the protected posts would work; it has, successfully, in the past. Did it change?
It’s the same.
Be sure you have an S at the end.
I am forgetful. I needed reminding after so many months/years of missing TLR caring for my parents.
So anyway, just type in the name, and drag that word to your desk top. Put it in a folder.
LOL I am getting old.
Billy Joel
Password protected only work for certain people?
Never works for me, that’s why I ask.
Email the Treenouse…
Adrem you are greatest—Mine is stored as you said to do…this time I made it in…
you are the best <3
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Once the government vehicle is fully controlled by a criminal, your only hope is in running out of fuel or crashing it. One of those two will happen.
Last time I checked, there was a fence, all the way around the Capital building, and well out from all entrances and exits.
A good start for $500, Alex
Speaking of vehicles and lies, here is the latest disinformation Dem campaign ad:
https://x.com/GavinNewsom/status/1782082600368283715
Correct link:
You really think so?
The “new” Super-Stasi state with the huge propaganda machine 24 x 7.
We need your papers and a false pregnancy test. If you are pregnant, we will either need a baby or proof of pregnancy on your return to Alabama. Roll Tide!
Sorry, just trying to lighten up the mood.
I can’t look at this worm without losing my lunch. 🤢
All satans minions start looking like this.
If your lunch was Fast Food and/or a Bud light, you are probably better off.
No and never!
That’s the same way I feel about Mike Johnson….just can’t do it. Would rather read the transcript.
LOL, I read everything these days. Can’t stand the condescending lying, or the arrogance of the media.
Smells of sulphur and hair jell in equal parts.
The instinct to engage in projectile vomiting is a natural defence mechanism, triggered by exposure to something highly toxic.
I first noticed it in 2012, with Romney (McStain givi ng me serious indigestion) and the mere thought of voting for mittens, caused me to paint the walls in a most unattractive manner.
They lie so the fragile minds need not grapple with ugly truth.
They lie because most of the relatively few even paying attention won’t know the difference.
And on the very few paying attention, try an experiment where you ask random people in the checkout line, “So, what do you think about the FISA 702 reauthorization?” and note what percent of the time you’ll get a blank stare along with, “What?”
From 2006:
Giving ATACMS to Ukraine is tantamount to Russia gave Iskanders to Mexican drug cartels.
Giving someone such weaponry and supporting equipment does not necessarily equate to them knowing how to use and integrate it effectively into their battlefield tactics.
That is what the “military advisors” are there for, are they not?
U.S. “military advisors” most likely coordinate many of the missile and/or drone strikes on Russia.
What I know for certain is that U.S. drones identify targets for strikes on Crimea because they always appear on radar just south of the Crimean Peninsula prior to any strike being carried out. It’s pretty crazy that Russia doesn’t shoot them down.
Isn’t that what they said about Vietnam? “Advising” resulted in 58,000 dead American servicemen. They’ll attempt the same in Ukraine. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Who will call Warner out for this? The answer is no one.
In the end we all answer to a HIGHER AUTHORITY …even the deep state devils!
Exactly. Let them answer for their transgressions in this life and the next.
Hey Senator, did you receive a Christmas card this year from James Wolfe?
Didn’t think so.
If this weasel’s lips are moving you can be assured he’s lying.
This man is one of my senators, unfortunately. A bigger liar likely never existed in the Senate. I hope Virginians wake up and find an honorable person to replace him soon.
We both know that’s not happening.
Spanberger has her eye on this seat. If we can defeat her run for governor at the end of Bumpkin’s term, then we might have a suitable candidate to replace Herr Warner.
Imagine her as the chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (I think Warner is in that position now), The Company will have direct control over oversight of operations.
That’s tough. I am in Maine with Collins and King. I feel your pain!!
Demi Kouzounas has been gunning for King’s seat in the Senate. Bombarded me with a bunch of “donate to my campaign before the deadline” text messages a number of weeks ago out of the blue. Not convinced that they are not going to be different to much of the Uniparty-R at the national level.
Add Pennsylvania to the list: Casey and Fetterman!
Who and what to believe anymore.
It’s like a spy novel only real this time.
Sadly, most people would believe what warner and the uniparty have said about this, I mean who would be for foreign agents wanting to do harm to the US?
Aside from the CTH, I can only think of a very few other sites that have revealed the truth about the FISA brand. Sad.
Thinking our government has rules they obey is the biggest joke of this century.
this large piece of floating whale snot was foisted upon us by ballot harvesting late in the election night of 2022,,,,none of us in Virginia wanted this darn drunken pile of wasted breath as our senator,,,and now Kaine is up for re election, wanna make a guess as to how that will go?
‘The screw up level has dropped from about 30% to less than 1%.’ – Senator Mark Warner
Prove it!
He can’t. He’s just mouthing self-serving boilerplate from the spooks.
If Mah-Wah-nah [as the Chinese call him} dared to ask for actual evidence backing up this claim, the spooks would turn him down flat.
For all his 16 years in the Senate – and his law degree from Hahhhhhvid – Mark Warner is nothing but a lowly bat boy, steppin’ and fetchin for the Fourth Estate.
Dropping from 30% screw-ups to less than 1% is easy.
Simple as not reporting all of the screw-ups. “Nothing to see here folks”
So easy a caveman can do it.
Well, lets start with mischarachterising INTENTIONAL acts as “screw ups”; those doing them KNEW what they were doing, and that there would be no penalty.
Thatsnot a’screw up’ thats “juist vollowink ORDERS!”
We were never meant to find out in the first place.
Keep telling the lie over and over with CONVICTION until it is seen as TRUTH.
That’s the plan and they’re sticking to it.
(or until they are convicted)
A compliant and complicit media allows a lying liar like Warner to get away with stuff like this. We should never let the media off the hook for their participation in the loss of our freedoms, ever.
What makes anyone think if this wasn’t authorized by congress it would not happen anyway? Laws and rules are meant for us underlings.
At this point they are just rubbing our noses in it.
Margaret Brennan is a tool of the Deep State.
She needs a new name, along the lines of Pencil Neck.
Gaslighting gone exponential. All day long, everyday lately.
Reason?
Panic in DC!
Thanks for that perspective BK. Needed it.
Mark Warner looks like a criminal
Markie Warner is worst than a criminal.
And as cherp said above……floating whale snot.
Would be in jail now for leaking the FISA warrant if we had law and order.
😁 😁
Read the transcript…..
I can’t find anything
that is true……or that
doesn’t raise the hair
on the back of my neck.
You ask why I doth loathe these human scum? The video answers the question.
Both of them. Equally. Without prejudice.
Or,…with extreme prejudice?
That too, Dutch.
It is part of the human condition that liars lie about things that are a pack of lies.
And there’s Brennan… carrying water for the government, as usual.
If there is such a thing as reincarnation, and I get a choice in what species I am reincarnated as, I am not at all certain what spices I would choice to be reincarnated as.
However, I do know that I would not choose to be reincarnated as either a snake or a human being.
In the words of Gomer Pyle…
“Well GOLLY!”
Warner must be a fan of Goebbels who said tell a lie often enough and people will believe it.
The insulting part of this repeated lie by every Uniparty talking head who has been near a microphone is not the lie itself…
It is that they think we are stupid enough to swallow it whole.
Our Dear Rulers in Washington DC all went to all the finest schools where they were well schooled in bloviating and allegations, of course, to begin with, and then the different branches of arithmetic: ambition, falsification, warification and ruination. Trust them. It may look to the untrained eye like they are all far afield, but they are actually right on target and know precisely what they are doing to us..
The worst thing sbout being lied to, are the emotions it evokes,…
Betrayal certainly, but also that whole “insult my intelligence” aspect…
Whole lot of that “insult my intelligence” thing going on everywhere these days.
Gnome I’m sayin?
These people are completely disgusting pigs. Another 100,000 dead and maimed.
And those fools out there saying, better to fight over there than here, they are the biggest fools to ever live!
If we don’ fight the Russians in Ukraine today, we will be fighting them in Germany tomorrow and then in the USA next week
My father used to say “Don’t BS a BSer”
For years, Virginians have been deceived by this political corrupt Senator, Mark Warner. Democrat lies and fraud for POWER also includes the “Clinton and Obama” buddy, Tim Kaine. The 17th Amendment has to be repealed because the US Senate has been dysfunctional for decades and now, the House of Representatives continues to prove the US does not have a representative government.
A problem with his comments is that he views Russia as the existential treat, when really he need look no further then his friends in DC and what he sees when he looks in the mirror.
…the Ukrainians have eliminated 87% of the Russians pre existing ground forces, 63% of their tanks, 32% of their armored personnel carriers,…
Senator Warner 21 April 2024
The Ukrainian military, with our help, has killed about 50% of the combat power of the Russians.
Senator Graham 21 April 2024
Senator Graham apparently got the wrong memo.
Been watching Ukraine/Russia war online. $500 armed drones been taking out everything from infantry to tanks, artillery and missile launchers. Any hardware we send will be quickly decimated. The initiative from the Ukraine troops is not there no matter how much money we send. Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine. After we piss off enough people they will eventually come for Western Europe and USA.
Warner and Brennan both deep Swamp people all they do is lie.
Which is what they accuse Trump of doing.
Warner is as dirty as dirty gets.
Live not by lies. Please read the book.
When a man lies, he murders some part of the world. —Merlin
Wow GaslightingSSCI Chairman Mark Warner Lies About everythingFISA-702 FundamentalsEdited for brevity………..
Everything this guy says is a lie. I cannot stand him or Kaine, the other Virginia Senator.
“You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.” ~ John 8.44
1% of the total number equals what? We don’t know because Warner didn’t bother to say. Yet even one breach of the constitution is too many.
From his basement in his sweats.
Rememeber!!! this is the dirtiest on-the-take from Ukraine Politician in DC.
I can’t stand Mark Warner. He is a stain on the state of Virginia. Awful person
Zorro…
Charlotte Taylor Wilson : You don’t really believe the people are happy!
Don Diego : All I know is the soldiers are quite happy shooting the people who say the people are not happy.
#1 export of the US Govt is death and destruction for profits for the MIC in turn though lobbyist pay the congress people with campaign cash and other gifts…Great people we are promote WAR and death…..Oh and after we destroy your country we will return and build it back better and we make huge profits again. The bankers fund both sides…….
Heard the same bull Sch!ff in person from Comey, which was a very special moment…