Posted on 03/11/2020 2:47:53 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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The passage of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), 278-136, comes the day after the House struck a bipartisan deal on the legislation and just before the bill is set to expire on Sunday.
Negotiators had worked for weeks, as both liberal Democrats and libertarian-leaning Republicans pushed for additional privacy protections, putting them at odds with lawmakers who wanted a clean reauthorization of the FISA bill, which they believed would easily pass in the upper chamber.
Now the Senate will consider the bill, which extends three expiring provisions of the USA Freedom Act that touch on roving wiretaps, lone wolf surveillance and a controversial program that allows the U.S. government to request access to phone metadata.
The bill has the support of Attorney General William Barr, who encouraged members of both parties to vote yes on it on Wednesday.
“I have reviewed the House FISA bill and support its passage,” Barr said in a statement. “The bill contains an array of new requirements and compliance provisions that will protect against abuse and misuse in the future while ensuring that this critical tool is available when appropriate to protect the safety of the American people.”
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Jim Jordan (Ohio), the top Republican on the panel, touted the bill Tuesday as a major accomplishment.
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Wow. Just wow.
FISA=evil. Any Republican who votes to re-authorize should be targeted in primaries.
Barr another loser. Hope POTUS vetoes this.
The world is coming apart around them but all they can think about is keeping their police state apparatus intact with some phony regulations to mollify the rubes.
They plan to fracture those rules at will just like they did the last ones.
Barr is One of Them.
Drop kick this poker faced Stasi front man on January 21, 2021.
Screw Bill Barr - traitor.
This doesn’t go nearly far enough.
Do we even need FISA?
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