FISA 702 authorization from congress expired June 12, 2026. The world did not end, despite the predictions and proclamations from the DC proletariat and narrative engineers.
However, despite the statutory expiration, the intelligence collection continues under the FISA Court’s annual certifications, which were renewed in March 2026 and remain valid through March 2027. {citation}
The annual certifications allow the government to continue collecting communications from foreign targets and querying the Section 702 database, including incidental U.S. communications, without interruption.
Essentially, the surveillance program operates on a separate “certification clock” that is independent of Congress’s statutory timeline. That’s a remarkable workaround.
In ancillary news, I will be offline most of the day as it is a pre-scheduled travel day. I will catch up later tonight.
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We, the people, are not in control. The IC is.
SD – thank you for all you do, safe travels and continue crushing it!
Amen! Thank God for Sundnace!
BF I would say they are a tool of the control structure, but the 3 main factions of power in order are the TIC (technical industrial complex), FIC (financial industrial complex) and the MIC (military industrial complex).
You forgot pharmaceutical industrial complex
D.C. (District of Corruption) is a wilderness of mirrors. Nothing is what it seems.
FISA 702 authorization from congress expired June 12, 2026. The world did not end, despite the predictions and proclamations from the DC proletariat and narrative engineers. – Sundance
My guess it the IC doesn’t need Congress’ approval to continue to spy on us We The MAGA People! They don’t need no stinkin FISA 702!!! JMO
My guess is that they will continue to spy on us, whether they have any legal authority, or not. They are a lawless cabal who answer to no one but themselves and occasionally to the British if they happen to have shared goals.
Deadlines mean nothing. Only pretenders believe the IC obeys any laws but their own.
Bingo!
As you have repeatedly pointed out, we know that the collection & storage of every citizen’s communications is itself unconstitutional.
FISA 702 is downstream from unconstitutional action.
Safe travels SD, looking forward to your later communication!
This is only one part of the sinister network which makes the epithet “The Land of the Free” ring hollow for me, something I believe we ceased to be long ago.
Let’s add the surging numbers of Flock cameras proliferating like fecund rabbits throughout America. That’s a lot of “data” collected. Where to store it…
Let’s add the shocking numbers of AI data centres which are doing the same. What is their actual purpose in the end? Not as promoted… for “good” … I have found myself thinking.
A hideous, sticky spider’s web wrapping itself around and through our constitutionally enumerated liberties.
“Sometimes your freedom is not taken away at gunpoint but instead it is done one piece of paper at a time, one seemingly meaningless rule at a time, one small silencing at a time.”
~Armando Valladares, Cuban prisoner for 22 years
Subtext…
“What do you do?”
“I am a man of God.”
“Oh, so you’re a minister?”
“Not quite….”
I wonder if he’s single 😂 my grand is & that’s the kinda man I’d pick for her!
Your darn toot’n, Mom 👍🏻
😍 😍 🤣 🤣
Betsy, dear, you must also read coffee and Covid as he has a wonderful article today about cutting down those cameras-in Houston no less where I grew up .It is very informative and he is always so clever and amusing!
Coffeeandcovid.com
Will do, Aggie… Thank you!
Next up for me.
Hi Betsy – thank you for quoting Armando Valladares – his is a remarkable story of endurance – I just finished reading his autobiography on my Kindle – I recalled reading an article way, way long ago in the “Reader’s Digest” about him and then recently found his book: “Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life in Castro’s Gulag”
Morning, girl…I am so glad to have a road map to his writings, and glad to see his name is familiar to others. Thank you for this.
“A hideous sticky spider’s web”
Apropos ma’am.
I did some research on the flocks in my area & I was surprised to learn that they aren’t a thing here… yet – but I know to keep my own 👁️ on local gubmint/business.
Suspect they will be.
I saw an interactive map of the US as these wretched spy cameras were just beginning to show up. Then little by little this map morphed into a complete picture of where they are now. I am not kidding, the colour of the monochromatic map fast changed in to an almost complete sea of the blue assigned to the cameras. Coast to coast.
The UK is covered from John O’Groats in the North to Land’s End in Cornwall with CCTV cameras. They are everywhere. On every corner in every city, town, or village.
There’s even one right outside George Orwell’s historically marked home designated with a plaque on the wall dedicated as such. Talk about an obscene irony.
Actually I heard the same thing about Ireland from a friend who visited at least 10 years ago.
CCTV cameras literally everywhere. He thought that I was a little bit nuts in my opposition to the pervasive surveillance. He’s a bit of a surrender monkey about those things… you know the kind, “if you’re not doing anything wrong…”
“Wrong” …according to what authority?
One of those words which means different things to different people.
Like “Hope and Change”.
It would be interesting in light of (or dark) what we are witnessing ten years after your conversation if your friend has adjusted his/her view at all.
Take a look.
https://deflock.org/
There is map embedded on the link above where you can see about your own area.
There are clusters of them in high traffic/profile areas of the county but nothing in the immediate area.
I expect that to change though. I’d hope that people simply wouldn’t put up with it but if I learned anything during the covid nightmare it’s that people will tolerate a lot of abuse w/o even a whimper.
So from reading the article it looks to me like the annual certification allows the government to reach into the database but the ability to replenish the database with new data is what has lapsed. Therefore, the database will continue to be used but what’s in it just gets out of date? Do I have that right?
“The annual certifications allow the government to continue collecting communications from foreign targets and querying the Section 702 database, including incidental U.S. communications, without interruption.
Duly noted. I read into the comments about the data companies refusing to release their intelligence without the 702 being renewed, despite the court’s recertifcation.
It opens the question of what exactly the statue allows and what the recertification allows. What’s really confusing…
“After the court greenlights what categories of foreign intelligence information can be collected and determines the government is following appropriate targeting procedures, the government decides whom to target and gathers that data from U.S.-based electronic communications service providers, who are legally compelled to assist.”
That seems circular to me. The government can start targeting *after* the court decides its targeting correctly? Huh?
to add/noting: there are no conclusive information that the “3 hops rule” under the incidental collection was restored back again (re: RADM ROGERS, 2015ish). We should assume it was restored given the silence and non discussion of it.
God Bless America
Safe Travels Sundance!! I Pray the Lord guides and Protects you on your journey’s in this world. God is Good!!
Amen!
Did anybody really believe they really care about laws?
Laws? They don’t need to obey no stinkin’ laws!
I’m sure Our Lord has something to say about that!
It’s expired.
No it’s not.
It’ll expire in March, 2027.
Wanna bet?
Blessings!
Thank you Sundance. Safe travel.
God bless you.
@Sundance-May your travels be illegal migrant driver free………….
Google and tentacles of AI data centers have everything anyway. The deepstate buys data access, runs the searches they need, plants what they need if necessary, then arrest, indict, blackmail and/or smear.
Gold hat…
“…a growing band of Americans armed with angle grinders begins quietly liberating their towns from AI surveillance cameras, forcing this publication to issue an urgent public-safety advisory we’d very much like you to ignore….”
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/selfie-vigilantes-thursday-july-9
Imagine, if you will, a world where you yourself, and every person around you is wired with a camera and a microphone than can be turned on and off at the will of the State, to transmit the entire scene and sounds around you.
Imagine the cameras and microphones surrounding you capable of voice and facial recognition – remotely programmable to trigger themselves on and off with any set of rules the State desires.
Welcome, to the Twilight Zone
It should conclude with
“Welcome to the USA in 2020”
How the Government completely controls China. They can find anyone as soon as they step out of line. Billions of people constantly monitored for complaints.
The sugar bowl is a nice touch.
Thanks. That was fantastic!
Your welcome!
Such and enjoyable read about such creeps and heroes. Thanks for the link!
You are welcome. I look forward to that column in my inbox six days a week.
Never fear. The warrantless pattern of life data collection continues via numerous means.
Did the Flock surveillance camera company call off cooperation with Ring cameras after the reaction to the Superbowl ad where they bragged that their team-up would be able to find your lost pet?
Yes, but it was Ring (Amazon) that ended the partnership with Flock Safety, not the other way around.
In early 2026 (around February), Ring aired a Super Bowl ad promoting its “Search Party” feature. This used AI to scan opt-in footage from nearby Ring cameras (and tied into broader camera networks) to help locate lost dogs/pets by matching uploaded photos. The ad was initially well-received by some for its heartwarming story but quickly drew significant backlash over privacy concerns, fears of a “dystopian” surveillance state, and implications for broader tracking (including potential law enforcement use).
Shortly after (announced around Feb. 12–13, 2026), Ring terminated its planned integration/partnership with Flock Safety, a company known for its network of surveillance cameras and automated license plate readers often used by law enforcement. Ring cited the integration requiring more time and resources than expected, but reports widely linked the decision to the ad’s backlash and heightened scrutiny of the Flock tie-up.
113,130 already installed without fanfare while you weren’t paying attention:
What are ALPRs
Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs or LPRs) are AI-powered cameras that capture and analyze images of all passing vehicles, storing details like your car’s location, date, and time. They also capture your car’s make, model, color, and identifying features such as dents, roof racks, and bumper stickers, often turning these into searchable data points.
These cameras collect data on millions of vehicles regardless of whether the driver is suspected of a crime. These systems are marketed as indispensable tools to fight crime, but they ignore the powerful tools police already have to track criminals, such as cell phone location data [geofencing just ruled illegal by SCOTUS; now, how about Flock and other ALPRs – W] creating a loophole that doesn’t require a warrant.
About Flock cameras and Flock CEO saying people monitoring Flock are terrorists (video short):
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sbPXvOsZDJA
Flock Safety, Palantir Technologies, Starlink, AI, plus Anduril, Axon, Ring, Clearview AI, Verkada, and other systems represent an even denser convergence of surveillance hardware, data analytics, satellite connectivity, biometrics, and machine learning. This ecosystem enables unprecedented monitoring and control. While each operates in its domain, interconnections via shared investors (e.g., Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund), law enforcement partnerships, and technical integrations paint a potent picture of a potential “panopticon” society. This synthesis draws on publicly reported developments as of mid-2026.
1. Flock Safety: The Ground-Level Surveillance Backbone
Flock Safety specializes in AI-powered cameras, primarily automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), with over 80,000 cameras across thousands of communities. These solar-powered, connected devices capture vehicle details and use AI for anomaly detection, video feeds, and “suspicious” pattern flagging. Flock has expanded into drones (Aerodomes) and software like Nova for cross-referencing with police databases.
Dystopian Angle: Creates indiscriminate tracking networks, criticized by ACLU/EFF for privacy erosion and biased policing. Data integrates with broader systems.
2. Palantir: The AI-Powered Data Oracle
Palantir’s Gotham and Foundry platforms integrate vast datasets for predictive modeling, used in policing, immigration, and military ops. It fuses camera feeds, biometrics, and other sources.
Connections: Flock feeds directly into Palantir; DHS has major contracts. Thiel links via Founders Fund.
Dystopian Angle: Enables profiling and predictive interventions, blurring civilian-military lines.
3. Starlink: The Ubiquitous Connectivity Enabler
Starlink’s satellite network provides global broadband, supporting remote data transmission. Integrates with defense analytics and could backfill gaps in terrestrial networks for surveillance feeds.
Connections: Supports Palantir/MetaConstellation; Thiel/Founders Fund ties to SpaceX. Pairs with edge AI in contested or rural areas.
Dystopian Angle: Ensures uninterrupted global data flow from ground sensors to clouds.
4. AI: The Predictive Glue
AI powers recognition, anomaly detection, and fusion across all systems, enabling real-time decisions and preemptive actions.
Additional Surveillance Hardware and Software
Anduril Industries (Thiel/Founders Fund-backed): Builds AI-driven autonomous systems like Sentry towers and Lattice OS for border/ battlefield surveillance. Detects/tracks via sensors and AI. Partners with Palantir for edge-to-cloud data flow. Expands the grid with drones and persistent monitoring.
Axon: Dominates body cameras, Tasers, and Fusus real-time crime centers. Integrates ALPR, drones, and community cameras. New fixed ALPR solutions and AI advancements consolidate data.
Ring (Amazon): Doorbell/home cameras with AI motion detection. Partnerships allow optional sharing with Axon/Flock for law enforcement, turning private homes into network nodes.
Clearview AI: Massive facial recognition database (tens of billions of images) scraped from public web. Used by law enforcement/DHS for post-incident and investigative matching. Complements ALPR with biometric identification.
Verkada: Cloud-based enterprise cameras with AI search (face/vehicle analytics), access control, and sensors. Integrates with Axon Fusus for unified police views.
Other Elements:
– Drones/UAVs: FBI seeks AI drones with real-time facial recognition + ALPR. Flock and others deploy rapid-launch units.
– ShotSpotter (SoundThinking): Acoustic gunshot detection, often fused with camera/AI feeds.
– Cellebrite/Penlink: Mobile device extraction and telecom data tools for DHS/LE.
– Broader integrations via Genetec, Motorola Solutions/Vigilant, etc., creating interoperable “operating systems” for policing.
These add layers: facial biometrics (Clearview), private/home feeds (Ring/Verkada), autonomous platforms (Anduril), and body-worn/evidence ecosystems (Axon).
Connecting the Dystopian Dots: A Total Surveillance Network
Peter Thiel/Founders Fund links many (Palantir, Flock, Anduril, SpaceX/Starlink). The stack:
– Multi-Domain Coverage: Flock/Ring/Verkada/Axon cameras + Anduril towers/drones blanket streets, homes, borders.
– Biometric Fusion: Clearview faces + Flock plates + AI analytics in Palantir.
– Seamless Transmission: Starlink + terrestrial nets ensure real-time flow.
– Intelligent Orchestration: Palantir/Axon/Anduril AI predicts, correlates (social/telecom/device data), and acts.
– Scale: Domestic policing to military (Gaza, borders, urban ops). Private-public data sharing accelerates it.
Critics warn of mass surveillance, abuse risks, bias, and civil liberties erosion— a self-reinforcing “digital police state.” Proponents cite safety gains. Unchecked, this trajectory risks an efficient, omnipresent system where movements, faces, and patterns are perpetually tracked, analyzed, and preempted.
How many facial biometrics have been captured by Clearview and where did they get them?
Clearview AI claims its database contains over 70 billion facial images (70+ billion as of their latest public statements in 2026).
This makes it one of the largest known facial recognition databases in the world, significantly larger than government holdings like the FBI’s. Earlier figures included around 3 billion in 2020, 10+ billion by late 2021, 20+ billion in 2022, ~30 billion around 2023, 40-50 billion in 2024-2025, and growth to 50+ billion or 60+ billion in various 2025-2026 contracts and reports. The company continues aggressive expansion through web crawling.
Sources of the Images
Clearview AI scrapes (crawls and collects) images exclusively from publicly available sources on the open internet. According to the company:
– Public web sources including news media websites, mugshot databases/websites, public social media profiles and posts, and millions of other open websites.
– It does not claim access to private accounts, direct feeds from platforms (after cease-and-desist letters), or non-public data. Images are harvested via automated tools that detect faces in publicly accessible content.
This includes platforms like Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter/X, Venmo, and countless others where users post publicly. The process involves:
1. Web scraping to find images.
2. Detecting faces.
3. Extracting biometric templates (mathematical representations of facial features).
4. Storing images + metadata (e.g., source URLs) for matching.
Key controversies: This scraping has drawn widespread criticism, lawsuits, fines (e.g., from UK, Australia, and others), and cease-and-desist orders from tech companies because it often occurs without user consent, even for public posts. Privacy advocates argue it creates a “perpetual police lineup” for billions of people, including children and non-Western populations. Clearview maintains it only uses publicly available data and limits its tool primarily to law enforcement for post-crime investigations.
In short, nearly anyone with photos online (especially on social media or news sites) is likely represented multiple times in the database due to the scale of collection. The exact number fluctuates with ongoing scraping, but the company’s current self-reported figure is 70+ billion.
Less than 150 years ago, it took faith to read the Bible and believe that God was aware of your every thought and deed… at all times all through life.
It took faith to believe that when 2 or more were gathered in prayer that heaven was listening to you (and everyone else praying).
Christ is a righteous king. He loves us like a good father loves his children. He died to be the sacrifice that will save us. We don’t need to understand how that sacrifice works. Just take it on faith.
Jesus Christ is the salvation from the hell that AI will create for mankind. If you are a subject of Christ the King, your soul will be freed from the AI hell that awaits us.
Get right with God and let not your heart be troubled. Pray. Heaven will hear you.
People monitoring Flock are terrorists?
Does that mean Flock is a terrorist organization for monitoring people?
Asking for a friend.
I will continue to bore the heck out of the Govt agent that’s watching me!!
We have family members of foreign origin who believe this country is “The Promise Land” of good life. There is frequent calls back to their country of origin and to think that the communication is monitored is tough reconcile. There is subjects of all family matters spoken and its all monitored.
It is global – the trillions upon trillions of dollars to finance this comes from men with no allegiance to the Constitution or fear of God. They need this land only for their operations. This is pure evil.
“To achieve omniscience, they require the Leviathan.
Through the multi-billion-dollar Commercial Cloud Enterprise (C2E) contract, the IC has permanently tethered its operational capacity to commercial servers owned by Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.
But as the data lakes grew too deep for human analysts to read, the CIA deployed a generative AI tool named OSIRIS. It mimics the sleek, frictionless, and “helpful” conversational style of consumer chatbots. We call it Kawaii Horror—a sanitized, corporate UI masking a lethal global surveillance apparatus.”
https://constructamiracle.com/p/the-quiet-part-out-loud?r=b7nwz&triedRedirect=true
“all monitored”, Like a call from jail.
We the people have been living under a facade for many decades.
The District of Criminals (DC) has been corrupted since it’s founding and We the people believed the lies.
Why is it this law must be renewed every three to four hours?
And is it really even a “law” if it is ignored by the Spy vs. Spy- State whether enacted or lapsed?
Why is the first letter “F” for “Foreign” when it is mostly used to target Domestic Political Enemies of the Deep State?
Is it because Americans are regarded as Foreign Interlopers in our own country by the Six-Ways-to-Sunday -crowd, of whom Chuck Schumer speaks so lovingly?
And why hasn’t Judge Boasberg simply “discovered” these authorities in the Constitution already, in the time-honored tradition of Chief Justice Johnny Cartel (who personally picks every FISA judge) and Crooked Judges everywhere?
In fairness to King Boasberg, I suppose he’s been pretty busy protecting Jerome Powell’s Money Laundering for the CIA’s Drug and Child Trafficking Ops.
Fisa 702 Authorization??? Who needs Authorization? Seriously, who would prosecute the Un-authorization?? You know, because of the ‘Sensitivity of matter’…..or some such BS…..It’s all about ‘Plausible Deniability’…
And judge Boasberg would make sure to be the one to declare the planting had no standing!
Reminds me of the song phrase “I’m a gonna get you, get you, get you. Like I’ve commented they don’t need a 702 to get you.
It opens with the apt words, “One way or another”…
I’m gonna find you, I’m gonna get you, get, you, get you, get you!
One way or another!
I believe that may from a song from the great symphonic rock group Alan Parson’s Project.
OH. LOOK! The leftmost half of the UniParty is worried that too radical factions are taking over, so a female suddenly appears who declares something that will certainly attract the attention of the MSM because it attracts the attention of the otherwise attention deficit voter idiocracy – SEX!!! Thus, the somewhat above average scumbag politician becomes an EXCEPTIONAL scumbag politician.
“Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime.” – Attributed to Lavrentiy Beria, Stalin’s notorious secret police chief, head of the NKVD/MVD
Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
by Harvey Silverglate (Author), Alan M. Dershowitz (Foreword)
The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed several federal crimes that day. Why? The answer lies in the very nature of modern federal criminal laws, which have exploded in number but also become impossibly broad and vague. In Three Felonies a Day, Harvey A. Silverglate reveals how federal criminal laws have become dangerously disconnected from the English common law tradition and how prosecutors can pin arguable federal crimes on any one of us, for even the most seemingly innocuous behavior. The volume of federal crimes in recent decades has increased well beyond the statute books and into the morass of the Code of Federal Regulations, handing federal prosecutors an additional trove of vague and exceedingly complex and technical prohibitions to stick on their hapless targets. The dangers spelled out in Three Felonies a Day do not apply solely to “white collar criminals,” state and local politicians, and professionals. No social class or profession is safe from this troubling form of social control by the executive branch, and nothing less than the integrity of our constitutional democracy hangs in the balance.
“Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.” – January 3, 2017 (aired/discussed around January 4), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said this during an interview on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show
Whitney Webb is the author of the two part book, “One Nation Under Blackmail”.
Whitney Webb: EPSTEIN, Intelligence & the Global Network of Power | Peter McCormack Show
1,625,152 views – Sep 4, 2025
We cover:
– Why Epstein was never just one man
– How blackmail is still the backbone of global power
– The CIA, Mossad, and the myth of national security
– Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, Leslie Wexner and the Epstein web
– Surveillance tech, Palantir and the war on privacy
– Why no one in power will ever be held accountable
– What we can still do: decentralisation, localism and the truth
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 – Introduction
00:04:40 – FBI Raids & Missing Evidence
00:06:57 – Suspicious Deaths Around Epstein
00:09:27 – Epstein, Clintons & Chinagate
00:11:23 – Are Governments Mafias?
00:13:14 – Mob, CIA & WWII Ties
00:16:21 – How the CIA Enables Crime
00:18:57 – Rise of Global Corporations
00:24:01 – The Global Metacartel
00:26:53 – BCCI & HSBC Cover-Ups
00:28:07 – Mossad, MI6, CIA Power Web
00:33:33 – Bear Stearns to Blackmail
00:35:51 – Intel, Crime & Trafficking
00:38:38 – Thiel, Palantir & Surveillance
00:46:54 – Why Epstein Was Taken Down
00:49:13 – Epstein at the White House
00:53:34 – Arms Dealing & Epstein’s Rise
00:56:07 – Maxwell’s US Intelligence Entry
01:00:26 – Israel’s Spy Empire
01:04:10 – Epstein, Mossad, Global Intel
01:08:53 – Clinton Foundation & Africa
01:10:03 – How Epstein Gained Influence
01:13:27 – Wexner, Crime & Protection
01:16:05 – Iran-Contra & Mossad Ties
01:19:20 – Berlusconi & Bunga Bunga Power
01:27:24 – Modelling as Trafficking
01:43:01 – Mark Middleton & Clinton Links
01:50:11 – Prince Andrew
01:53:57 – Leon Black’s Money Trail
02:01:02 – Why Epstein Was Disposable
02:04:18 – MBS, CIA & Revenge
02:08:17 – Trump, Kushner & Shadow Games
02:11:54 – Did Epstein Kill Himself?
02:15:28 – Why Files Stay Hidden
02:17:49 – Global Victims & Grooming
02:22:13 – What If Files Leaked?
02:30:30 – The Global Bourgeoisie
02:34:23 – Freedom or Economic Slavery?
02:36:04 – Why Epstein Was Kept Alive
02:38:54 – Localism as the Solution
02:40:08 – Outro
Have all Epstein files possessed by all US federal agencies including the CIA been released?
No, not all Epstein files from all US federal agencies, including the CIA, have been released.
DOJ Releases Under the Epstein Files Transparency Act
The Epstein Files Transparency Act (passed in late 2025 and signed by President Trump) required the Department of Justice (DOJ)—including the FBI and US Attorneys’ Offices—to publicly release unclassified records related to Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, investigations, flight logs, and related matters.
– The DOJ has released approximately 3.5 million pages (plus thousands of videos and images) in major tranches, notably in December 2025 and a large batch on January 30, 2026.
– Officials, including Deputy AG Todd Blanche, have stated this fulfills the Act’s requirements, with redactions for victim privacy, child sexual abuse material (CSAM), active investigations, and classified/national security information.
– The DOJ identified up to ~6 million potentially responsive pages but released about half after review, citing over-collection, duplicates, or exemptions.
However, this is incomplete even for the DOJ:
– Court challenges continue. As of late June 2026, a federal judge (Emmet Sullivan) ordered the DOJ to unredact additional materials (e.g., specific emails and FBI interview notes) or justify withholdings by early July, in response to a lawsuit by journalist Katie Phang.
– Critics (including some Democrats in Congress) argue significant portions remain withheld without adequate justification, and the DOJ Inspector General is reviewing compliance.
– Missing items reportedly include some prison surveillance footage and certain DEA-related documents (though DEA materials may fall under DOJ).
Other Agencies, Including the CIA
The Act explicitly applies only to DOJ records. ***Earlier drafts that would have required broader disclosure across agencies (e.g., CIA, State, Treasury, NSA) were narrowed to secure passage.***
– There is no comprehensive public release of Epstein-related files from the CIA or other non-DOJ agencies.
– Scattered references exist (e.g., Epstein’s own FOIA requests to the CIA/NSA seeking confirmation of any affiliation, which received Glomar responses; or mentions of contacts like former CIA Director William Burns), but these appear in DOJ releases rather than direct agency dumps.
– Intelligence agencies routinely handle sensitive or classified materials that would not be covered even if broader laws existed, and no equivalent transparency mandate has been applied to them for Epstein files.
Overall Status (as of late June 2026)
– Significant transparency has occurred via the DOJ releases, which include court records, FBI files, images, videos, and mentions of prominent individuals (with varying levels of redactions).
– Not full disclosure: Ongoing litigation, redactions, potential withheld batches, and the Act’s narrow scope mean many files—especially from intelligence or other agencies—remain unreleased or inaccessible.
– Public and congressional skepticism persists, with calls for further action.
It was actually a song by Blondie– https://genius.com/Blondie-one-way-or-another-lyrics
Lorraine got the song I was thinking in the above post. Thanks. One way or another…..
Reminds me of the song phrase “I’m a gonna get you, get you, get you.”
Grok says it might be this:
“The Voice” by The Alan Parsons Project (from the 1977 album I Robot).
The relevant lyrics include:
That someone is watching you (he’s gonna get you)
…
Before you run and hide
He’s gonna get you
You got no choice
‘Cause you can’t escape the voice
I think the prisoners are getting restless. I saw this this morning. A list of things you should NOT do to flock cameras. https://x.com/i/status/2074921728279560204
Yes. Idiotic and pointless. Of course, trying to get your masters to do anything about it is also since too many people don’t even have a clue about most anything that isn’t absolutely blatantly obvious until they are personally affected.
So, be nice little kids and don’t make significant waves in the panopticon you are paying for, especially since The PATRIOT ACT:
The panopticon is a design of institutional building with an inbuilt system of control. The concept is to allow all prisoners of an institution to be observed by a single prison officer, without the inmates knowing whether or not they are being watched. Although it is physically impossible for the single guard to observe all the inmates’ cells at once, the fact that the inmates cannot know when they are being watched motivates them to act as though they are all being watched at all times.
Ron Wright wrote a great article about Joe Digenova and his work, now positioning to act on the past silent coup that took place within the Deep State. It is on the American Thinker blog this morning!
When is a law not a law? I guess I know now. So no more “we are a nation of laws” bullsiht, please.
Safe travels Sundance
Godspeed, Sundance.
We are so screwed. The UniParty Deep State will not be denied.
Do we replay 1776? Pray continually for God’s guidance.
Soap Box…Ballot Box…Ammo Box…
Just Sayin’
The apparatus is already in place and running smoothly. They don’t care about your rights. The judges are in on this.
Safe travels Sundance!
I believe the Certification Clock expires in 3027 not 2027.
No wonder there was no big uproar from the Swamp Rats. They knew they were still collecting data.
Godspeed.
This is one issue that I hope will go away permanently.
Everyone should be concerened.
Thank you, Sundance!
Color me surprised. NOT!
Be safe!
Sundance we love you.
If their collection activities are continuing unabated, then their access to and use of those collected communications is continuing as well. And it is not just foreign communications, but domestic communications as well. Since they have something like 10,000 federal and contract employees with access, then nothing at all has changed and that bill sitting in Congress is nothing but a piece of paper distracting everyone from the fact that the whole program will continue whether or not it is signed.
The whole FISA program needs to go away. But even if it does not completely go away, these two aspects – the statutory authorization and the collection activities – must both be brought together in the reauthorization bill. No reauthorization approved and signed into law should mean the collection activities and IC and LE access to the material completely screeches to a halt.
Sundance, please follow President Trump’s lead and don’t fly on the new AF1, there’s something just not right with it.
Is that a picture of our DNI at the end of the article?
That’s our Acting DNI. Let’s hope he acts with as much determination to root out DC Swamp corruption as the former DNI.
Safe travels Dear SD.
God speed.
Safe travels.
To Clarify:
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
Safe Travels!
Continued BLESSINGS!
Sundance tells us:
“Essentially, the surveillance program operates on a separate “certification clock” that is independent of Congress’s statutory timeline. That’s a remarkable workaround.”
Ain’t it pretty rich that the people that preach ‘Law and Order’ and that ‘Words Matter’ then come up with a plan like this for themselves to continuing screwing over not just us, it’s everyone around the world- since it’s not like what they do stays local.
It’s abundantly clear that there is an us and then there is a them- and we are not equal, or the same and we’re certainly not in control of anything as the Constitution dictates that we’re supposed to be.
We really need to be more forceful in withdrawing our consent to be governed like this: by a bunch of criminals.
That just stinks!
Godspeed, SD!
That’s a remarkable workaround.
Indeed. Whats this pulte guy gonna do with this now? Apparently our side gets to do some spying?
Does that mean that if my auto insurance expires, I can still legally drive and file a claim if necessary?
From CTH article yesterday:
“Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s administration had been startled when ¹Trudeau’s government discreetly asked British intelligence chiefs to start discussing how they might band together if the U.S. left Five Eyes, the U.S.-led intelligence-sharing alliance. MI6 turned them down, as the vast majority of intelligence that flowed through that club came from Washington.”
Per Google:
If both branches completely defaulted—meaning Congress allowed Section 702 to expire and the Attorney General (AG) and Director of National Intelligence (DNI) failed to file the annual certifications—the government would lose its specific statutory authority to compel U.S. tech companies to hand over foreign intelligence communications under FISA.Because the “buffer period” created by the transition provisions relies entirely on an active, unexpired FISC certification, the program would face immediate legal collapse once the existing calendar cycle ran out.
My thoughts:
Maybe the world can be saved from Langley by strategically doing nothing??!!
Soap Box…Ballot Box…Ammo Box…
Just Sayin’