Confirming earlier reports, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) member, Senator James Lankford, appears on Meet the Press to confirm that Tulsi Gabbard’s change in position on FISA-702 now gains his supportive vote. Senator Lankford will support Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence. (WATCH – prompted 1:03):
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Senator Lankford flat out lies in his response when he says, “702 has nothing to do with American citizens.” That is a lie. The very element “702” only pertains to an American citizen, no one else. Foreign persons do not have constitutional protections, only American citizens do. The FISA-702 statute is specifically designated for Americans who are “inadvertently captured” during foreign intelligence intercepts.
[Also, notice how every Sunday interview begins with a media demand that California be financially supported by congress. They never did that for Western North Carolina.]
Who the hell do they think they are?
The post constitutional, Praetorian Guard.
A merger between the NKVD & Gestapo.
They think they are running the Government and this puffs them up like balloons. They don’t have to win any elections. Once they rise to the top of their Bureaucracy, they find that they can do whatever they want. Then they discover other Bureaucrats who have made it to the top of their own fiefdom. They get together and think, nobody can stop us from doing what we want, so we are the real Government. So, they pretty much think they are the most important people in the DC Swamp.
Why wouldn’t they?
They also worry a lot about how to control those pesky elected people.
They have to act uppity re 702 to cover stock trading tips derived from the surveillance of highly placed company board members, CEOs and other corporate individuals. After all, how do members of congress make millions from insider trading if not from spying on company sales, mergers and acquisition information?
Trump needs to ban elected officials from trading on the markets.
AMEN!
your fascist rulers.
I used to think the Democrats were the ENEMY Fromm WITHIN.
Now I realize they are just useful idiots.
The Republicans have been out true enemy all along.
We know what they think they are, but they don’t know what we intend to do.
They are only doing what Soros has deemed necessary to create his “open society”. IMHO
Boing – Sundance ripping off the pretence, he promised.
“Senator Lankford flat out lies in his response when he says, “702 has nothing to do with American citizens.” That is a lie. The very element “702” only pertains to an American citizen, no one else.“
Lankford not only lied about the meaning of 702, but compounded it when he said Gabbard voted against monitoring of foreign actors by voting against 702. He knows Gabbard cannot set the record straight or else these sleazy Decepticons will pull their vote.
Even IF the use of the 702 is eradicated, we need to not let it go at that . . .
from watching that scene in “Snowden” where Snowden learns how Facebook is used to find information – intelligence – on targeted people, when Snowden asks his colleague if he doesn’t need a FISA warrant to do this search he is told no – so if that was in 2007, 2oo8 that was during the George W. Bush Administration – the CIA could rummage around in Facebook to find whatever they needed – no FISA warrant required –
in the movie, “Snowden” the person being researched is not an American – but they are using the resources of an American company, Facebook, to develop the intelligence they are looking for to create their “hook” to get the guy to help them –
very touching and somewhat pathetic when he is sitting in the nightclub with the CIA guy and the Snowden – the banker confides in Snowden how his life has gone topsy-turvy since the last time they talked (when they met at the soiree a week or so earlier) – now the nightclub scene is where the CIA guy is going to help the banker get very drunk and go get in his car and shortly then get arrested for drunk driving and then the CIA will help him out of that pickle . . .
so let us not think that if we get rid of the FISA search warrants that they are STILL not doing whatever the hell they want by other means and methods.
So sick of tossers like this. In many ways the repugs are worse than democraps. Always coming with the high fast one. How the hell do …guys….like this get elected in Oklahoma? Has me longing for that last scene in The Sum Of Fears
It takes a horse-trading soul to run for office. No conservative comes out with the record they campaigned on going in. These louts use the right words to turn our heads and get our support, then within week are voting 180 degrees against their promises.
I have a special kind of heartburn for these people.
Lankford is a controlled swamp dweeb, like a bobble-head, up and down…”yes master.
Piece of 💩
Some days I could just go all Captain Wallace Binghamton! 🤬🤬🤬🤬
Said to self, this can’t be a McCale’s navy reference 😜
Lankford is a POS and Tulsi is a sellout, The Swamp wins again.
Her stated position on 702 has no bearing on its passage – which, unfortunately, is a forgone conclusion. We need her as DNI to counterbalance the insane warmongers.
Can you trust her? I don’t.
How is Tulsi a sellout! If she doesn’t say what they want to hear she’s a hero but doesn’t get the job???
Let’s hold off on Tulsi. I certainly recall Obamas’s lackeys saying one thing and doing the opposite. Not to mention the times he & his administration ignored judicial. We’re living in a new time. Results are all that matters. The ones good for our country, our children and grandchildren. Langford should have stayed in radio. Needs to be primaried. Where do I send my check? As Dr Sundance says; the SSCI is a corrupt silo that needs to be dealt with.
Yes, Jimbo, Even Obama himself flipped, as in, “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor…” or that he had “evolved” on same-sex marriage…
Tried to vote him out – What a liar POS!
Exactly! Tulsi Gabbard will do whatever President Trump wants her to do. Her personal feelings are irrelevant!
So, just yes the idiots to death and get confirmed!
Tulsi is of no use if she doesn’t get the gig.
** Tulsi is of no use if she doesn’t get the gig. **
Trump isn’t stupid . If he truly wants Tulsi, there’s a reason. If telling Lankford what he wants to hear makes it happen, then I’m fine with that. Her position can “evolve” after confirmation. She would be in a serious position to put a leash on 702 abuse. It isn’t her job to abolish 702, it is the Congress who created it.
That would be devolution not an evolution.
I think everyone is forgetting what the IC did to her.
I don’t think she’s a sell out by no means . They have done to her what they done to Pres Trump just on a lower scale .
Yeah, sure, James. You want to insure this 702 scam can remain a monetized asset as another income stream to the DC elites.
Selling information and allowing who may harvest it (contractors) could be quite lucrative.
Get a warrant for each request and go from there. Easy and Constitutional.
“You want to insure this 702 scam can remain a monetized asset………”
^^^this^^^
Rule number one: Follow the Money!
And included in that information is insider trading.
Just think about how intertwined government has become with banking and the world of finance.
I guess our nation was made of far better men 200+ years ago than now. The constitution can’t keep up with the criminal potential of this generation.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams
I think Western North Carolinians were offered $750, while Californians were offered $25,000, or something like that. Puke.
I’ll just put Lankford on the UniParty scumbag list.
He has been on the list from the getgo.
He was the swamp theatre “negotiator” for the McConnell establishment border immigration scam – where the talk was of border control, but the facts were to let in another 5,000 illegals per day along with the money spent to permit all to be welcomed.
Don’t forget his service TO not on the SSCI.
Now they should do East Palestine, OH.
I think he’s/she’s been there
NC offered $750 , refunds for generators, chainsaws and recovery materials. None of the offers were ever fulfilled. Many roads (State and Local) that got quick fix repairs from washouts are now on the verge of collapsing again. Landslide hill slopes with no vegetation are washing back down into roads every time we get an inch of rain.
The Tulsi thing will take care of itself. Have some faith in DJT. Bigger concern is how the money grab in California proceeds. Thoughts and prayers for the innocent victims. However I am sick of my homeowners insurance premiums hiking ever year. After a freak rainstorm blowing out a window I and having $$$$ damage we received nothing as it didn’t qualify as a claim because of the way the water came in. You want to live in a risky area and vote for the same losers that is up to you but I haven’t worked all my life to subsidize them. The MSM wanrs to put it on us and let the new scum off the hook.
‘….you can have my final answer now Senitor, if you like. My final offer is NOTHING….’ I wouldn’t give California the sweat off my….
That was easy to say, now wasn’t it, James?
If you don’t have anything to blackmail Tulsi with, I’m not sure she won’t change her mind back.
Isn’t all this about the IMPROPER use of 702?
The suggestion is that any use is improper because these people cannot be trusted.
Nothing will happen until we voters use the 702 authorization issue to boot these guys from office. It should start with Trump in an effort to primary these anti- Constitutional frauds.
Lurch Jr.
Tulsi should play their game tell them what they wanna hear and then betray them like they betray us do the complete opposite.
No betrayal involved as long as she does what President Trump asks her to do. What she tells senators during her confirmation hearings is irrelevant.
HTF does the most Conservative State in America keep electing RINOs?
Mullin, Lankford, Governor Stitt…
Food for thought.
The state party, in bed with the big donors, selects who runs.
You misspelled Wins.
Copy that.
Once again. Why would any patriot go on this bish’s program? (Mollie Hemingway) this dude is compromised. So obvious.
We will approve of supporting California AFTER the hurricane victims are FIRST taken care of
And then the money comes with stipulations, management of the water, Forests will now be under federal authority
Screw those in Cali. Not one word from them to help those in western NC OR TENN. I have no sympathy for them. As far as I know, none of them are sleeping in freezing weather in tents and I bet no fema worker avoided trying to help them because they had a Kamal Harris sign in their yard.
Eff ’em.
the premise (false) allegation of Russia Russia russia was the predicate to weaponize the FISA program and spy on President Trump.
it’s a loophole. The wrap up smear on steroids, using the most invasive and abusive power of surveillance there is, was used on the premise that President Trump was acting on behalf of or had associations perhaps even unwittingly that created the needed narrative and the legal predicate to spy on him..
the problem with this has never been reconciled and corrected. In fact, in that last significant congressional vote, the power of surveillance has been expanded and any legitimate debate about how to maintain order to due process, the right to an attorney, the prohibition of unlawful search and seizure, the kangaroo secretive grand jury pools used by main justice, and other issues related to demonstrable politicization and weaponization of these powers, those debate never happened. Nothing of any substance.
congress does not believe in those prohibitions. they believe they are a unnecessary burden to knowing what those terrorists are doing..those foreign agents of anarchy.
yet, the same main justice and FBI not only KNEW the Steele dossier to be false, but that it was a paid package for a political hit job. So they effectively were conspiring WITH A FOREIGN POWER, AGAINST THE INTERESTS OF AN THE SECURITY OF THE UNITED STATES.
they believe none of that was unlawful. That is was necessary to “get all the facts” and to do it by spying. Yet, not a single FBI agent stepped out in the daylight and screamed to anyone who would hear: we KNOW this information is false….it is not Russia Russia crapola. We know this.
the 702 program has not changed since. And this is the most important thing to realize. We predicted many years ago and even before the patriot act would be enacted. That some day, it would be abused. And now, we predict it will continue to be abused. And Congress just sold you out and holds the same position as main justice and the FBI:
if you haven’t done anything wrong, why worry.
Ask President Trump and hundreds of people that are American Citizens.
they will tell you the answer to that impossibly stupid question: of course I didn’t do anything wrong…and yet, with these powers you did harm me…for no other reason that
YOU COULD
It’s a power no one should have..period.
noting: the FISA rules clearly state that applications for spying will not be approved unless all lessor invasive means to collect evidence of a crime have been consumed. I doubt those rules are ever discussed or enforced. It’s just a rubber stamp. We know this already…there are millions of unlawful queries (these are types of spying actions), that the FBI has admitted. and yet, no one fired…no one is even accused of a crime.
it’s insane.
this is how this nation will collapse…the very thing that makes America work is that we are a nation of laws…that no one is above the law…that police do not have the power to kick your door in without a warrant a a verifiable set of strong evidence exists and that a court judge has reviewed it and has written such an warrant.
702 is essentially an lawless power that gives the FBI and other intelligence agencies to power to break the very rule of law..
this breaks the nation into lawlessness.
is it really any wonder that Joe malarkey would be installed and allowed to commit crime after crime?
he is just the latest example of a nation under siege by the secret police spy state…that is more than likely working as a shadow government…a star chamber.
Lord Help Us in this hour that these demons be obliterated.
God Bless America
Hear, hear.
On a macro viewpoint, the violation of rights by our government in our days is very parallel to the violation of rights by the king in their days (1765-1781).
At the start of the real fight (1775/6), they went on record with Dec of Ind. The second para is key then and will be key now.
At the end of several years of self governance of a nation by the Articles, our founding fathers worked out and wrote the constitution: lessons learned. The people demanded a bill of rights and accepted the Constitution w/ the bill of rights. The Second Amendment is key then and will be key now.
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Your last two lines are well taken but human agency by divine guidance is a necessary pre-courser.
Lord Help Us in this hour that these demons are honorably, legitimately, and lawfully obliterated by Godly men.
God Bless America
This guy is a skank. I cannot stand him.
He makes Trey Gowdy look urbane and well coifed.
Tell that RINO what he wants to hear until you get confirmed then do what you need to . The Deep Swamp needs a complete purge including Rino trash like him and quit a few others.
I openly wonder about the possibility of doing what the Democrats and RINOs do—saying that you support something and then actively undermining it once in office. I don’t subscribe to this way of doing things, as I prefer simply to call it what it is and take it on face-to-face. I took the position of actively undermining the COVID rules in many ways. Once I realized how purely tyrannical the whole episode was, I didn’t proclaim my opposition. I just undermined it. I pray and hope that Tulsi Gabbard does this against FISA-702 in concert with active opposition from others inside and outside. I must admit to being out of hope for all stripes of politicians, but I can still wish for these outcomes while keeping my eyes open and not pretending.
The government game of “I Spy”
https://sharylattkisson.com/2020/01/the-government-game-of-i-spy/
Senator Lankford, since you believe the FISA-702 is a tremendously important and necessary surveillance tool, there is no need for any members of Congress, all their assistants and/or any family members to be exempt, right? In fact, based on the premise behind the illegal spying on President Trump, his advisers and family members, wouldn’t you have to agree that the “Congressional inner circle” ought to be the last group allowed a 702 exemption?
Asking for a lot of friends.
Lankford: That is someone who is on my “fervently loath” list.
This Howdy Doodiesque rube. This bumpkin got played so thoroughly by New York Schumer that he was actually trying to sell a MINIMUM of daily illegals across the border. So now here he is again as Mr. FISA 702. Hoping that Tucker, the highest-profile 702 victim, goes full-throttle on this dweeb. So tired of every one of these queens and princesses in the U.S. Senate exempting their previous selves from that under which they’d have us live.
I’d say PDJT is the highest profile person caught in the 702 trash heap.
“I’d say PDJT is the highest profile person caught in the 702 trash heap.”
You’re truly correct. I had meant (but failed) to qualify it among the political commentator/news class. Sharyl Atkisson is in that class too.
This liar.. okay so what’s to stop Gabbard from pulling clearances ..? For some reason I’m thinking he really as no clue never read it before he voted for it..? Wishful thinking on my part
Her job in the administration is to give the President the truth of what is going on, not the Deep States’ lies.
She can do that whatever the FISA court says or does.
If I understand this correctly, the Senate Intel Committee will only approve Trump’s nominee for DONI if she agrees to support an un-Constitutional provision that permits the government that none of us trust to illegally surveille American citizens without a warrant…but a provision that also makes an exception for members of Congress or their staff, who presumably value their privacy and don’t want to be illegally surveilled.
Meanwhile, President Biden is preparing to issue a blanket pardon of all the bad actors who illegally surveilled, wiretapped, sued, imprisoned and tried to assassinate his political enemies, so that no one can legally surveille, wiretap, sue or imprison them…and they get off scott-free.
Do I have that right?
Correct!
Nice Summary
So Tulsi can lie to the bastards, they certainly have no problem lying to us. If they refuse her nomination then nominate no one and appoint her czar. Exempting themselves from this warrantless, unconstitutional, surveillance, that is a violation of our 4th amendment civil rights is really beyond the pale. So use this surveillance against these bastards and they can defend their exemption in the courts, especially the court of public opinion. EF THEM.
Since President Trump, his campaign, and his administration were the primary victims of FISA-702 abuse — one would think that he wouldn’t tolerate it (nor the FISA Court Judges overseen by Cheap Justice Benedict Roberts) being allowed to continue, or Tulsi Gabbard flip-flopping on the issue.
The Wifey wonders if Trump may, as a result, withdraw her nomination for DNI?
[“Team Trump” is failing (to a degree) to present a unified MAGA front …]
Why can’t she just change her mind again after she’s confirmed? Duh. I would.
Right after she declassifies and makes public documents naming names and clearly outlining the corruption and other illegal activity.
“Golly, I didn’t imagine it could be this bad; 702 searches need to end!”
Doesn’t President Trump have to sign it in order for it to be law?
Traitor Lankford is the guy who negotiated the Border Insecurity Bill with the Dems to legalize permanent high levels of illegal immigration. He was fine with allowing 5,000 illegals to enter the USA every day/365.
Look at what Peter Thiel had to say about FISA 702:
https://www.ft.com/content/a46cb128-1f74-4621-ab0b-242a76583105
Is Thiel reading Sundance?
There’s an awful lot of room for improvement with these Senators from red states. We really need to primary these people and put MAGA candidates up against them.
There is something seriously wrong with Lankford. Lankford putts from the rough.
O/T
WEF Insider Reveals LA Wildfires Were Engineered to Seize Land for 15-Minute Cities
https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/wef-insider-reveals-la-wildfires-were-engineered-to-seize-land-for-15-minute-cities/
They picked the wrong areas. They destroyed celebrities’ homes. They are people with a voice & money; not good to make them angry.
UNREAL:
While LA is being devastated by fires, Newsom and CA legislators reach an agreement to allocate $50M to “Trump-proof” California. The funds will be used to fight Trump and looming deportations in court.
From Politico: “Gov. Gavin Newsom and state legislative leaders have agreed to set aside $50 million to defend California — as well as immigrants facing deportation — in court against the incoming Trump White House, according to two people with knowledge of the negotiations.”
“The deal, struck through a special legislative session Newsom called to shore up the state’s legal defenses, includes $25 million he sought for state Department of Justice litigation against the federal government.
It also contains $25 million state Senate leaders wanted for grants to nonprofit legal groups and centers that support immigrants who are at risk of deportation, detention and wage theft.” —- This is what California is choosing to spend money on right now.
https://nitter.poast.org/WesternLensman/status/1878636112710705222#m
Time to primary Lankford out. He’s NFG. Make him feel the wrath of MAGA.
Would you believe that he is a Baptist pastor???????????
Our other Senator, Markwayne Mullins, loves to talk about how spiritual Lankford is.
Unfortunately, he is not up for re-election until 2029.
Trump needs to do what Trump does best…negotiate the Art of the Deal.
He has all the cards.
Lankford
Why Oklahoma?
Why?
This RINO is just trying to save his career.
Lankford is a Snake. Add to Primary list.
No federal money should go to CA for restoration until the citizens of TN and NC are fully taken care of. Period.