Trump Says He Is OK with Giving Away Your Rights – The Washington Commonplace
Trump wants to spy on you, and he will. Massie’s amendments rejected.
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Truth Social: I am working very hard with our Great Speaker, Mike Johnson, along with Chairman Jim Jordan and Chairman Rick Crawford, to get a clean extension of FISA 702 through the House of Representatives this week. I am asking Republicans to UNIFY, and vote together on the test vote to bring a clean Bill to the floor. We need to stick together when this Bill comes before the House Rules Committee today to keep it CLEAN!
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When the Dirty Cop, James Comey, the failed Head of the FBI went after me, he was using FISA Title I, the Domestic Collection, not FISA 702, the Foreign Collection, which needs to be extended today. While parts of FISA were illegally and unfortunately used against me in the Democrats’ disgraceful Witch Hunt and Attack in the RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA Hoax, and perhaps would be used against me in the future, I am willing to risk the giving up of my Rights and Privileges as a Citizen for our Great Military and Country! Our Military Patriots desperately need FISA 702, and it is one of the reasons we have had such tremendous SUCCESS on the battlefield. I have spoken with many in our Military who say FISA is necessary in order to protect our Troops overseas, as well as our people here at home, from the threat of Foreign Terror Attacks. It has already prevented MANY such Attacks, and it is very important that it remain in full force and effect. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Warrantless Spying Is So MAGA Now
You may agree or disagree with the bill. But there are seriously troubling aspects to the setup.
First, Trump ran against spying but he now demands an extension of domestic spying with no reforms. He intends domestic spying.
Second, Trump accurately phrases the bill as intrusion on Constitutional rights. But he is OK with that. Nobody should be OK with giving up Constitutional rights. To do so would be unconstitutional by definition.
Third, Trump phrases it a “my rights” (his rights) as if nobody else’s rights matter.
The risk is in giving up rights for any reason. Of course it’s a risk Trump is willing to take because he intends to spy on people who disagree with him.
Warrantless Spying
The FBI improperly used warrantless search powers against U.S. citizens more than 278,000 times in just one year.
Please note FBI repeatedly misused surveillance tool, unsealed FISA order reveals
The FBI repeatedly misused a surveillance tool in searching for foreign intelligence to use in cases pertaining to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and 2020 racial justice protests, according to an April 2022 court order publicly released Friday.
The order, which was released by the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, is significantly redacted but reveals thousands of violations of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which allows the federal government to collect communications between certain targeted foreign individuals outside the U.S.
A senior FBI official told The Hill in a statement that the errors described in the order are “completely unacceptable,” as FBI Director Christopher Wray has said. The official said the changes that the bureau has implemented are designed to ensure the errors do not happen again.
The FBI has come under intense criticism from some conservative detractors who have alleged political motivation and improper practices have guided the agency, instead of pursuing equal justice under the law.
Massie Offers Three Fixes
Trump wants to spy on his political enemies and he will if this passes as is.
The risk he is willing to take is Democrats spy on him when they are back in power.
But he intends to prevent that as well by stealing the election.
Article posted with permission from Mish Shedlock