The question that matters comes up before things go off the rails. Senator Hirono asks Attorney General Pam Bondi about the reauthorization of FISA-702, that will be needed when the authority expires next year.
The attorney general is clueless about the issue. Bondi literally has to read her answer as prepared for her. I’m not kidding, watch Pam Bondi’s response (prompted):
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If FISA-702 did not exist, the quasi-constitutional justification for the wholesale collection of U.S. citizen metadata no longer exists. It really is that simple.
There is ZERO justification for the capture of U.S. citizen data by the government. The capture itself violates the Fourth Amendment. The only way the government can justify the capture of U.S. Citizen data is if there is some quasi-constitutional or national security reason for it.
Take away “702”, and the data collection collapses; ANY “incidental” search of the database then loses any plausible legal justification. 702 is the camel’s nose under the tent.
BOOM!
The FBI has already terminated employees and abolished the CR-15 squad just one day after it was revealed that several Republicans’ private communications and phone calls had been tracked.
FBI Director Kash Patel on Tuesday announced the actions the bureau had taken in response to the revelation of the “baseless monitoring” during the Biden administration and promised more actions to come.
“We are cleaning up a diseased temple three decades in the making — identifying the rot, removing those who weaponized law enforcement for political purposes and those who do not meet the standards of this mission while restoring integrity to the FBI. I promised reform, and I intend to deliver it,” Patel said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
(Source: RedState)
Never would have happened unless the spying evidence was made public …. so much for publishing evidence of wrong doing is being withheld to support prosecutions theory.
There ain’t no prosecutions.
There have been NO firings “pending legal actions”, despite the evidence being on their desks.
Kash and Bondi are operating is 100% reaction mode … they do something only when evidence sooo bad is made public … a Fox interview will not fix the problem … then they have no choice
And Patel only became aware of Cart because someone stupidly reapplied. Otherwise, supposedly , Patel knew nada about Cart. Agree with no prosecutions.
Pray and help others
it hit the congress critters. if it was just us rube hoi poloi, it would have been kept.
See NY comments about Bondi and her squeeze John Wakefield below.
Seems like all of these bad actor/low hanging fruits that are being purged from these LE Agencies at a glacial pace should immediately be put under surveillance to see that they aren’t regrouping or funneling intel to their networks of subversives..
and I would bet the pace of new abuses is greater than the pace of reform.
That fast, huh?
You seem to have forgotten one of these /$..
That really gives me the warm fuzzies! /Sarc
One would imagine at least a read through of the pre-written responses so as to sound a bit more on-the-ball.
There were none when I posted
been watching snippets of bimbondi’s testimony this morning and it’s confirmed
she’s in waaaay over her head
sad
You beat me to it
the cringeworthiness of her answers overpower and detract from her message
if there exists a category lower than ‘b’ actors, she’s it
Its a real toss-up who’s actually dumber, Barbie Biondi or Hirono. You couldn’t add their collective intelligence together and end up with that of a normal 5 year old.
makes one wonder if bimbondi kamala’d her way to the top
for those who may not be aware…
kamala advanced her career by spending many years on the head of willy brown’s staff position
😂😂😂
Combine their IQ’s, and you have enough brain power for a half-wit…
Don’t insult a normal five-year old, ESPECIALLY a home-schooled one!
But she IS smarter than Sen. Hirono, right? Right?!?
Yes. It isn’t close, but that’s more a statement about the stupidity of Hirono than the brilliance of Blondi.
Hirono’s line of of questions and responses however flawed were more coherent than Blondo’s rambling nonsense.
It sounded as though their staffers have been cooking up some interesting augmentations to 702 from my recliner.
As long as Bondi fights back with her responses – I am happy.
Let Bondi be the Legally Blondi head of DOJ. There is a team behind her that can outperform.
So true!
C.
I’m starting to get pissed that PDJT still backs her. He needs to wake up.
She is an embarrassment. The whole lot of them are, Blondi, plus Bango & Cash.
Blondi, Bango & Cash
Sounds like a stupid network sitcom that only appeals to retards and braindead viewers over 70.
That was embarrassing.
I coulda told you that with one eyeball tied behind my back!
There must be a way to make President Trump aware of this.
Has Laura Loomer weighed in yet?
98th rated law school!
It’s well known that President Trump is often greatly swayed by ‘the last person in the room’.
The Body Language Ghost just dropped a new analysis on YouTube which also reveals other salient points:
– how he is shielded from information (he had no idea the vaxx had such big, negative consequences!)
– POTUS loves his ego stroked (we knew that)
– Lindsey Graham is a confidant, and a snake
The BLG analyzes a Trump supporter (country star?) who confronted the snake and told POTUS the truth: “this is the only issue we will ‘booo’ over”
POTUS turned to Hershel Walker, and Walker confirmed that he got an earful from his constituents.
That was John Rich.
Smart man, talented, and devout.
Worth 100 Reince Prebuises (sp?)
“FISA” is not a “court” by any plausible sense of the word. How can it be a “court” when the judge hears only one side, and the defendant does not even know s/he has been named? Every now and then, a judge figures out that s/he has been lied to, but how often do they not?
This level of surveillance – of American citizens – serves no legitimate defense or other purpose. It is simply being done because it is possible. And, no doubt, because there’s a stupendous amount of money in it for some.
That’s normally also the premise & method under which “red flag laws” are implemented. ‘Ex parte’ über alles.
Right, the ‘red flag’ laws sound logical, until a million exes and other disgruntled people use them to persecute innocent people. The govt can’t be trusted to apply laws fairly, that is why we have constitutional protections.
Ex-parte is an abomination to the liberties & due process rights under the Constitution.
It’s coming to be common in Guardian/Conservatorship court processes. It can strip all independence & financial rights from a senior. An abomination.
Politicians/IC has conflated personal interest with personal safety with national security.
The continuance of their control of their position, of the WE the people, information or situation = national security to THEM.
“Court” is somewhat of a misnomer …. the FISA Court is a “classified, behind closed doors” Warrant to SPY Authorization Process.
Note: there are NO defense attorney’s present when a standard warrant request is made TO JUDGE in “their court or chambers” by law enforcement. Also, even in this case the Judge has to pace a large degree of trust in the evidence used to establish probable cause for the warrant … Just like the FISA Warrant process.
The crimes in all of this are …
The spying that generates the evidence used in the court … violates 4th and 5th Amendment Rights of those who’s data was collected.
The lying that the evidence cleared what ever process was used to vet it’s authenticity, to establish probable cause.
Finally, the Judges should be held to account for all the perjury that has been proven in the FISA Warrant applications involved. Also, the Garland DoJ, which IGNORED all of Judge Collyers findings v/v/v the NSA Report assembled by Admiral Rogers.
The 702 process that Sundance refers to is the FISA 702 Query capability that authorized users of the NSA database can use to gather data on a named target. These are the queries found to violated 4th and 5th amendment rights by FISC Judge Collyer after she reviewed the NSA Report by Admiral Rogers.
Then there is actual SPYING and data collection done by NSA, which is also technically a violation 4th and 5th Amendment rights. Somehow Congress Congress felt it is within their power t just cancel these rights, with amendments to the Constitution via the Patriot ACT.
The Constitution may ONLY be amended by a Constitutional Amendment, NOT by statutory law (laws passed by Congress). It is the Supreme Law of the Land, and may NOT be amended by a hierarchically inferior level of law.
But the political clas tries over & over, esp DEMOCRATS.
INFURIATING.
FISC is the acronym for Foreign Intelligence Service Court, while FISA is the acronym for Foreign Intelligence Service Act – which act created the court which is supposed to determine the legality of any warrants those using the act are trying to get approved or if such warrant is not authorized.
The problem -other than the whole thing is so anti-constitutional – comes in the form of the FBI and other agencies actually lying to the court as to the information the agencies are using when they apply to the FISC to approve the warrant.
It was designed to safeguard US citizens Fourth Amendment rights and of course the agencies found their workaround to defeat any teeth the lawmakers thought they were putting into the law when it passed.
Especially when the judge is “in” on the crime!
FISC is literally a Star Chamber. Not authorized by the Constitution for use on U.S. citizens.
“The term “Star Chamber” originated from an English court established in the late 15th century, named after the room in which it met, which had a ceiling decorated with stars. It was initially created to try powerful individuals who could not be brought before ordinary courts, but it became associated with arbitrary and secretive judicial proceedings.“
The arbitrary nature of the FISC is exposed when it is compared to court-issued warrants for wiretaps / collection of personal comms that must meet 18 U.S.C. 2511 (or 18 U.S.C. 2518(7) in emergency situations) and 1st and 4th Amendment requirements.
Isn’t Judge Immergut from Oregon, the one who thinks she can try and block the Nat’l Guard a protege of Boasberg on the FISA Court?
The worse part of all this FISA business was it was the fix for IC faults identified by the Church Committee in 1975.
It says a lot that the IC cannot even be bothered with upholding the low bar set by the FISA process at that.
Because it sounds bad to call it a “Star Chamber”
I would wager that, more often than not, the judges are in on the lying. “wink wink”
See also: Boasberg on the FISC and that Miami magistrate Reinhart, and that kook up in New York, and on and on…
To call the small part of the hearing I was able stomach watching cringeworthy would be an understatement. I was embarrassed for our President most of all.
Spot on.
702 needs to die a quick death. Domestic spying should be relegated to action/adventure movies.
Trump had a chance to end it in his first administration.
Why didn’t he do that?
Always cracks me up that people watch these movies and root against the govt baddies, but in real life, they act like the govt is the good guys even after shown proof that the basic premise of movies like “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” is essentially Hydra as an amped up version of the Democrats and their minions in Government….
Or, Bourne Identity.
Clueless about this issue?
Clueless…
Full stop.
Grimaced when she was nominated, but hoped she would surprise.
I now pronounce her, without equivocation, a complete disaster.
…I see she had time to get her nails done.
Like it or not, she is a direct reflection of where the Trump Administration is headed.
Well, I don’t like it.
One would hope for an off-ramp, or a strategically executed U-turn.
But if the chances of that are slim to none, then the best we can hope for is that Todd Blanche and Ed Martin are quietly taking care of business.
A hard no on Blanche Sis. We have been in trouble for a while. The sooner we call the baby ugly the sooner this turns around. We are running out of time.
Ugly is right. And it is time which is at a premium.
Any particular reason?
Well 40% of GDP is based on Attempted Intelligence becoming so gargantuan that it consumes every shred of energy we could ever hope to produce is kinda unnerving. That and the Communists trying to foment Civil War while the DOJ brass can’t find their car keys. Other than that, I’m passable.
Colour me thick…
I’m not seeing the connection between Blanche and AI…🤔
Although I am with you on AI…
Blanche was a Democrat until this year. A former assistant US attorney for the Southern District of New York.
He also did not win the NY case for POTUS. Specifically, some are concerned by the slowness to the prosecutions that need to be done to clean up the Swamp. At this time in Joe Biden’s administration 700 Trump supporters were arrested.
We here at the Treehouse know all the facts and are waiting…..
It is a trust issue. Many people are having flashbacks to Jeff Sessions.
By October 1, 2021: The Biden Administration Had Already Arrested Over 700 Trump Supporters – Compare That to Pam Bondi and the Trump DOJ Who as of Today Have Arrested ZERO Deep State Criminals
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/10/october-1-2021-biden-administration-had-already-arrested/
Thank you for this info, Donna. I am, as you know, here in the Treehouse along with you and everyone else and yet. completely missed this very important nuggett. Life gets in the way sometimes….
And once again, your filling in a woeful blank for me is more evidence for why I value the people here and their contributions to our discussions.
Obviously Ms. Bondi is not as dumb as people assume she is, she is, after all, the sitting United States Attorney General, so smart enough to get that job.
nope, that argument doesn’t hold water
i offer exhibit ‘a’ as evidence
kamala
Ummm . . . I hope that was sarcasm . . .
Kudmala got the job as VP.
As did Quayle and Pence.
Ma’am she had absolutely no business as AG of Florida.
You would know, dear brother 😎
For sure. NO business as AG Florida. NONE.
Respectfully, sis, I believe it was not “smarts” that got her that job.
…legal ones at least.
There are plenty of “professional climbers” everywherere who achieve positions through other means other than their capabilities to do a job. And plenty of imminently qualified people in many fields where this happens who have experienced being overlooked because their faces didn’t fit or their political views didn’t align.
(I originally wrote “pole climbers”… then realized where any responses to my reply to you would go, so adjusted…)
https://www.cartoonstock.com/cartoon?searchID=CS559326
Poll dancer. 😂
Oh you……😁
Was implied anyway.
A dolly bird?..
A dictionary picture 😉👍🏻
Oh yes..she is that dumb.
The skills to “get” a job are not the same as the skills needed to excel at a job.
She is not a serious player in the DOJ but will follow directions because she knows she’s in over her head.
Idk who was worse, they both sounded like robots.
Hirono is the dumbest cow in the Senate. She has competition though.
Bondi?
Hirono obviously wasn’t even listening to Bondi’s answers. A middle school debater would have jumped all over Bondi for her ignorance.
Oh c’mon Treepers, cut her a break. She has been busy frying much bigger fish such as …..(checks notes)….
Nevermind.
If you consider her bleach blond hair “Fish”, then you are correct.
Pam Bondi 100 supporting Trump very good continue
Feckless Republicans want the ability to spy on the American people.
Marxist Democrats want the ability to spy on the American people … and feckless Republican lawmakers.
Therefore, FISA will be re-authorized. It’s just that simple.
The fact that Jack Smith was spying on Republican senators won’t change a thing, nor will it stop the illegal spying, nor will any protections (real, or imaginary) be put in place. There will of course be considerable hand wringing and pearl clutching, but that is strictly performative, for the benefit of a gullible public.
my opinion is that the deep state would run a false flag or allow a terrorist attack and then blame it on the lack of 702 and any politician that votes to take it down or lapse. part of psycho politician’s job is avoiding blame, so theyd rather see you lose rights than have to fight off blame.
I could only watch the first couple of minutes of her answer as I was embarrased for her! She sounds like a kid in a junior high drama production who was handed a script just before they went on stage as a stand-in and has NO IDEA how to read the words on the page in front of her because she literally doesn’t know what half of them even mean!
Bondi is even dumber than I thought. That was awful. President Trump should be embarrassed that he appointed her in the first place.
Please Mr. President-Fire the Blonde Buffoon immediately!
Slide her sideways gracefully, like he did with Waltz
This is a good example why she had no issues with confirmation .
So it’s confirmed #2 firmer Democrst is running the DOJ, blocking MAGA, while Blondue goes to her sweeties children’s school functions in Florida.
Got it.
Boot Blondie, put Harmeet Dhillon in charge, even on a temporary basis.
Nice of The Blob to write that down for her, including the phrase “the DOJ will work with you” instead of the far riskier (and untrue) “I will work with you”…
Help me understand: if The Patriot Act has not been renewed, why are the extra Constitutional agencies and practices still being employed?
That being said, I don’t want to get rid of Dir. Gabbard in any way..
I think that tonight, Bondi should look herself in the mirror and honestly ask whether she is up to the task of being U.S. Attorney General.
Hirono is not an intelligent person, but she looks like Einstein compared to Bondi.
Unfortunately, I can’t think of anyone who could be more effective in the job of USAG and who could pass through the
socialistSenate advise and consent wicket, especially now that the socialists are on the verge of open rebellion against PDJT47.I can’t agree that Hirono “looks like Einstein”: she just rehearsed reading her questions, and used smaller words. Whoever wrote Bondi’s responses, had no idea of her normal (limited) vocabulary and she clearly didn’t read it thoroughly ahead of time.
Self awareness is always evidence of higher order thinking. That’s seems a bridge about a light year too far.
Once she looks in the mirror..all hope is lost. She’s a barbie girl in a barbie world.
Let us pray that more data comes forward that shows congress is in danger as well as American citizens. That’s the only way it will end, if they are shown that they to are in chance of discovery.
Every day CONgress is in a little more danger….one day We the People will take action and there will be full accountability and NO appeals process.🇺🇲
The idea that the dumbest Senator, Hirono, would be “working on 702” makes me guffaw
NAUSEATING….I lasted 1:36…..
I can’t discern which one is more intolerable to watch/hear….but I’m giving the edge to hirono ….shes almost like an asian Roz from Monsters Inc. …the yellow one eyed slug…….. but with a more annoying voice…..
“Mike Wazowski!”
“You forgot to turn in your paperwork…..”
(702’s)
Go figure .. AG Bondi even fails “Court Room Prep 101” … you know kind of look up and understand some of the key points for the hearing.
Something she could have done while her nails and hair were being fixed.
but she through you a bone with the DickDurbin tongue thrashing.
She could have easily said: “Yes, at the time of my initial hearing, I said I would learn more. This is what I have learned. The FISA process is unconstitutional as applied to US citizens. It needs to be shit-canned. There are other ways to get information that do not involve negating the rights of Americans to unreasonable searches and seizures.”
We need to get you in there!
Exactly 💯 💯
👉Logical and brief Constitutional reasons👈
Erudite, pithy, and succinct….well done!
No shock, no surprise … Nobody should be at this point. The single worst pick he’s ever made #1 because she is just not that bright and #2 – most importantly – the criticality of the AG’s role. Some wingman you have there Mr. President.
She seems to be steady fast on the mission
Which is….?
Her “performance” today was embarrassing. I’m no fan of Senators Durbin and Blumenthal, but her responses to not unreasonable queries from them were petulant and unworthy of an individual who is AG of the USA.
Agreed … with just a little bit of prep … a “good attorney” would have laid waste to Blumenthal and Durbin with Legal facts related to FISA ad FISC that demonstrated the corruption by the Obama administration whom they were defending … in a most eloquent manner.
“There is zero justification for the capture of US citizen data by the government”
Except that the gov’t does what big business tells (bribes) them to do and helping big business assemble and maintain their database of consumers brings congress people big income.
Look at how many businesses you can’t proceed with a transaction until you provide them with phone, email, etc.
I have PO Box and I can’t get anything done unless I give them a physical address.
The merger of corporate (business) and government is corporatism, which Mussolini famously said was the more correct term for fascism.
The US is now “inverted fascism” where the corporations control government, supported by the people who are manipulated by both, with all manipulated by veiled powers.
Aye, NN..
I really liked the part where Bondi fell over herself thanking Hirono and the Dems for the opportunity to be an embarrassment to the Nation.
That was special.
Who does that?
Fantastic to have a new doj a new fbi new odni leadership the team is doing great 👍 keep it going.
Hope the plan was always, “Ok, I’ll nominate Pam for this one favor, but she will be let go at a time and date of my choosing for the real pitbull.” One can dream.
A real pitbull cannot get Senate confirmation.
Ya know, this sparked a thought in me. Scary, that. But hear me out.
Given how the left tends to do the opposite of whatever President Trump says, and they are needed to repeal certain legislation, why not try reverse psychology?
Have Kash Patel set up a working group, or whatever the FBI calls it, to start tracking and recording Democrat leaders. They don’t have to actually do it. But without a doubt, one or more of the agents assigned will be leftist sympathizers and will leak the plan.
Might not the Democrat leadership suddenly look unfavorably on the Patriot Act and the excreble 702s and repeal them?
Maybe I should lay off the sherry….
I don’t know. I think you’ve got something there.
I’ve been saying this for a long time.
Great minds think alike…
The demoralization is being terminated
People note the incidental searches of the database was wrong.
The real point is the existence of the database is wrong.
Without 702, the hoovering of metadata loses its fig leaf of legality.
Exactly
Bondi started slow but finished with a bang.
‘The double standard is crystal clear. You did not complain for 4 years when President Trump was being targeted by Jack Smith, but the American people overwhelmingly elected him. The two tier system of justice is over.’
A simple and short answer to put senator Hirono in her place:
If FISA is causing far more problems than doing good perhaps it is high time we abolish it.
You’ll have an easier time getting crackheads to go cold turkey than for the IC to give up the FISA 702.
SD—whom and how do WTP target, metaphisically(sp?) speaking, to rid our ENTIRE government of all the corruption?
I practiced law for quite a while. There is no such thing as “quasi-constitutional” in the United States. In Canada, the bedrock of all things reasonable and serious, there is such a thing, but not here. U.S. government action is either constitutional, or it’s not. There is no middle ground, half-pregnant, gray area.
But the “national security” petard has been used by the U.S. government for decades to violate our constitution in many different so-called “quasi-constitutional” ways
Regarding 702, the argument for capturing all Americans’ metadata (i.e., everything we do, everywhere we go, everything we say in writing) and putting it into the mind-boggingly massive NSA database for easy and quick warrantless reference any time the government wants, is that MAYBE there is an American out there who’s working with a foreign terrorist.
National security, therefore, requires that we collect all that information without a warrant, Your Honor. You know, just in case we need it quick-like.
Quasi-constitutional my a*s.
The senator showed disrespect when she addressed the AG as Miss Bondi.
I couldn’t make it all the way through that fiasco. Surely there is someone more capable than Bondi for this position.
SOMEBODY Doesn’t LIKE To DO HOMEWORK…
( OR Blondi is being PURPOSELY DUMB to SAVE HER Planatir Investments )
PROBABLY BOTH
https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2025/06/03/new-contracts-to-drive-palantir-stock/
I wonder how her Pfizer stock performed over the last few weeks?
Ok. But does our President know that FiSA-702 needs to die?
Bondi: ‘I’m not the Atty General of the United States but I play one on TV.’
Our AG who studied at the 98th-ranked law school doesn’t know a key legal fact which underpins so much.
Telling.
And I guess her sweetie – John Wakefield, a founding principal at Varner Wakefield Equity Partners – having three children – might be why Bondi allegedly still lives in Florida.
So Bondi is playing Mom, and Kash is going to swishy restaurants with his squeeze, while the Republic is in tatters.
Has Wakefield benefited from the $wamp?
If that turkey is renewed next year, R’s can kiss their miniscule “majority” goodbye, as they will lose big time in the mid-term (s)elections. We are sick to the gills with their meaningless lipservice!
We cannot leave PDJT on the battlefield alone.
He didn’t abandon us, we cannot abandon him!
Senator Kennedy with Blondi in same hearing. She is as dumb as a box of rocks
SENATOR KENNEDY Has OPENED The SUGGESTION to CIVIL LITIGATION
702 is the camel 🐫 and all of its extremities including its humps & tail inside of the tent.
10 years ago I asked someone claiming to be NSA to show me the place in the Constitution/BoR that authorized the gubmint to collect all citizen communications.
The answer? 🦗 🦗🦗
Trump needs a new AG.
I would be more concerned about Hirono’s concern about reauthorizing 702, than I would be concerned about Bondi’s performance. Hirono is one of the unhinged ones and gleefully participated in the witchhunt on Trump. She just wants to make sure, that as soon as the Looney Left gets back in power, they can continue hunting down people of contrary ideological thinking.
Dumb and dumber
Why did they send Crazie Morono on the 702 question mission?
Because they know there will be no exposure or pushback so let’s send one of our idiots for fun.
Low energy, bad scripts, poor acting from both. UniParty Political Theater.
Bondi and Patel are an eye poking payback .
Ugh.