Posted on 04/12/2024 3:19:56 PM PDT by Morgana
LOL ok. Vote GOP! They will save us all!
LOL ok ... vote Biden! He will save you!
We see where you’re coming from, fresh n00b.
I was glad my congressman’s name was not on the list. Thanks, Bruce Westerman!
On the other hand, I was saddened to see Hill, Crawford, and Womack from Arkansas on the list.
Seriously? I had thought that I could not become more disgusted with them, that they had hit bottom. But they have proved me wrong and my disgust only increases.
I can feel a Cromwellian urge to dismiss the Congress of Rumps.
It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice.Oliver Cromwell's speech dissolving the Rump Parliament, delivered at London, England - April 20, 1653. From http://www.emersonkent.com/speeches/dismissal_of_the_rump_parliament.htmYe are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government.
Ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.
Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess?
Ye have no more religion than my horse. Gold is your God. Which of you have not bartered your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?
Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defiled this sacred place, and turned the Lord's temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices?
Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation. You were deputed here by the people to get grievances redressed, are yourselves become the greatest grievance.
Your country therefore calls upon me to cleanse this Augean stable, by putting a final period to your iniquitous proceedings in this House; and which by God's help, and the strength he has given me, I am now come to do.
I command ye therefore, upon the peril of your lives, to depart immediately out of this place.
Go, get you out! Make haste! Ye venal slaves be gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors.
In the name of God, go!
how is that even constitutional?
It is constitutional if performed against an alien outside the United States where the U.S. Constitution does not apply.
However, the agencies routinely use the power criminally against American citizens. It is beyond clear that the agencies cannot be trusted to restrict themselves to lawful use of the authority.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/fisa-section-702-civil-rights-abuses
November 2023FISA Section 702: Civil Rights Abuses
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was enacted to make it easier for the government to address foreign terrorist threats. The law gives the government broad authority to surveil non-Americans located abroad, but targeting Americans is prohibited.
Unfortunately,intelligence agencies have used legal loopholes to turn Section 702 into a go-to domestic spying authority, using it to conduct hundreds of thousands of warrantless “backdoor” searches for Americans’ private communications every year.
Backdoor searches and other warrantless surveillance techniques raise both civil liberties and civil rights concerns because when intelligence and law enforcement officials can access Americans’ sensitive information without a warrant, they are more likely to rely on improper considerations such as conscious or unconscious biases or political beliefs.
Section 702 has been repeatedly subject to such abuse. Some recently publicly disclosed misuses of backdoor searches, which the FISA Court says may exclude “large numbers” of abuses, include:
Searches for 141 racial justice protestors and political activist groups that organized protests.
Searches based on a witness’s report that two men “of Middle Eastern descent” were loading cleaning supplies into a truck.
Searches for mosques that were intentionally mislabeled to avoid oversight.
Searches for Professor Xiaoxing Xi, an American academic who was wrongly accused of unlawfully sharing sensitive technology with scientists in China.
Searches for a state court judge who reported civil rights violations to the FBI.
Searches for immigrants, even with no indication they pose a risk to national security.
“Batch” searches that included current and former federal government officials, journalists, political commentators, and 19,000 donors to a congressional campaign.
Searches for a sitting Congressman, a US Senator, and a state senator.
Searches for a local political party.
Congress can help end these abuses by passing the Government Surveillance Reform Act of 2023, a comprehensive surveillance reform bill that requires government officials, absent an emergency, to obtain a probable-cause court order or the subject’s consent before searching for Americans’ communications or other sensitive data in foreign intelligence holdings obtained without a warrant.
Questions? Please contact Noah Chauvin at chauvinn@brennan.law.nyu.edu.
Only morons think voting will save them. Continue to hope though, and continue to be throughly disappointed.
Why are you even here, n00b?
Other than to promote Biden?
You’re sure stepping in it, big time, on your very first day.
Any relationship to John Brennan?
SCOTUS Justice William Brennan. No known connection to Communist John Brennan. Maybe ideology.
Thanks. Sad, that commie John is who I first think of, when I hear/see that name.
Hopefully NOT ideology, since Justice Brennan was appointed by Eisenhower.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but Earl Warren was appointed Chief Justice by Eisenhower too.
Well, there is that.
:-)
Here's an excellent article on him:
Mr. Kustoff Goes to Washington
So now we have three mysterious turns from otherwise excellent representatives: Blackburn and Haggerty on the 2020 electoral confirmation and Kustoff on this continuing violation of our Constitutional right against illegal search.
This ain’t the America pre 911 anymore.
Thanks to our government importing ME terrorists for decades now who have become citizens, this may be needed.
This ain’t America anymore Toto
Thanks! I've been here for 20+ years and never knew that!
Well good! I’m glad it was able to help someone! Hope it helps put conversation exchanges in context for you. I know it helps me. Only problem is you have to work it backwards from newest reply in the chain to the oldest and first in the chain. But at least it does help make some sense of it with a little backtracking. :)
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Every day or two I’m reminded why in 2016 I stopped voting in congressional elections.
We the People aren’t in charge and haven’t been for a long time.
So, Speaker Johnson believed the self-serving show put on by the Intelligence community.
Huh?
Believe anything from the very people who put our republic through three years of hell as it attempted a coup d’état against President Trump?
Any relationship to John Brennan?
Yes — John Brennan and the heads of other intelligence agencies. The Edward Snowden revelations led directly to the intelligence agencies, most notably the NSA. The article I linked and quoted cites hundreds of thousands of violations which I believe would be more accurate in the multi-millions.
The government has the capability to scoop up and record personal data from everybody. For example, for J6 the government collected phone and credit card data for everyone in the D.C. area. Of course, there was no probable cause to suspect that everyone in the D.C. area had committed a criminal offense. FISA warrants require no probable cause subpoena.
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=207195207
With 3 'Hops,' NSA Gets Millions Of Phone RecordsJULY 31, 2013 6:19 PM ET
By The Associated Press[excerpt]
In the House earlier this month, lawmakers said they never intended to allow the NSA to build a database of every phone call in America, and they threatened to curtail the government's surveillance authority. "You've got a problem," Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., told top intelligence officials weeks ago.
[...]
It hinges on what's known as "hop" or "chain" analysis. When the NSA identifies a suspect, it can look not just at his phone records, but also the records of everyone he calls, everyone who calls those people and everyone who calls those people.
If the average person called 40 unique people, three-hop analysis would allow the government to mine the records of 2.5 million Americans when investigating one suspected terrorist.
With a three-hop warrant for one relatively unknown person in Trump Tower, the government could actually surveil the entire Trump organization, including candidate Trump.
The One GIF That Shows Just How Wide the NSA's Surveillance Net Really IsBy Will Oremus
Sept. 4 2013 6:30 PM[excerpt]
The phrase “three hops,” which comes from NSA honcho John Inglis’ testimony to the House Judiciary Committee in July, means that the agency can look at the communications of the person it’s targeting, plus the communications of that person’s contacts (one hop), plus the communications of those people’s contacts (two hops), plus the communications of those people’s contacts (three hops). Each hop widens the net exponentially, so that if the average person has 40 contacts, a single terrorism suspect could theoretically lead to records being collected on 2.5 million people. Take into account that the NSA may have thousands, tens of thousands, or even upwards of 117,000 “active surveillance targets,” and the map turns red in a big hurry. Like, almost entirely red.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-collection-documents/
NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection programPublished: June 6, 2013, Updated July 10, 2013
Brennan admits 'there were mistakes made' in FISA applications, suggests FBI was 'overly aggressive'By Joseph Wulfsohn
Fox News
Published December 18, 2019 3:46am ESTFormer CIA Director John Brennan, an outspoken critic of President Trump, acknowledged Tuesday that "there were mistakes made" in the highly controversial Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) application process during the Russia investigation as reported by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz.
Appearing on MSNBC, Brennan was asked by host Chris Hayes about "abuses" uncovered by Horowitz, who claimed he found 17 significant errors in the renewed FISA applications into former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, while Horowitz was a member of the Obama administration.
"Well clearly, there were mistakes made based on the inspector general's reports," Brennan responded. "And I know that a lot of people attribute it to either to incompetence or politicization. Well, I might just attribute it to, these were FBI agents who were doing their level best to try to prevent Russia interference in the election."
He continued, "They were probably overly aggressive, they didn't pay careful enough attention to some of the details, they may have ignored some aspects of the work that was uncovered. But I think the IG was very clear that politicization did not seem to creep into any aspect of their work either at the initiation of the investigation or throughout."
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