Posted on 04/10/2024 2:52:21 PM PDT by McGruff
A bill that would reauthorize a crucial national security surveillance program was blocked Wednesday by a conservative revolt, pushing the prospects of final passage into uncertainty amid a looming deadline. The legislative impasse follows an edict earlier in the day from former President Donald Trump to “kill” the measure.
The bill in question would renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which permits the U.S. government to collect without a warrant the communications of non-Americans located outside the country to gather foreign intelligence. The reauthorization is currently tied to a series of reforms aimed at satisfying critics who complained of civil liberties violations against Americans.
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The bill’s failure also reflected the dramatic ideological shift in the Republican Party, which for years after the Sept. 11 attacks supported expansive surveillance in the name of national security but has more recently walked back from that position thanks in part to lingering outrage over the FBI’s investigation into Trump’s 2016 campaign. That skepticism of the government’s spy powers has created an unusual alliance between far-right Republicans and civil liberties-minded Democrats.
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It’s sad that the government so abused its power that it cannot be trusted, but here we are.
If the ACLU was actually an organization that supported civil liberties, instead of a fake front group for the Democrats and Deep State, it would now endorse all these conservatives.
Spy on WHO????? probably conservatives, Christians, and tax payers.
Its obvious that Obama/Holder/Brennan and their fellow marxists turned the DOJ/FBI/DHS/CIA into woke institutions who will break any law and destroy any tradition, to keep themselves and their ideology in power
Now gut the new Headquarters of the Pretorian Guard. Today. End it.
"The bill in question would renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which permits the U.S. government to collect without a warrant the communications of non-Americans located outside the country to gather foreign intelligence."
"Those violations have led to demands for the FBI to have a warrant before conducting database queries on Americans, which FBI director Chris Wray has warned would effectively gut the effectiveness of the program and was also legally unnecessary since the database contained already lawfully collected information."
Implied admission that 702 has been a "legal" fig leaf to spy on Americans domestically, imho. And the fact that they tried to put in a cutout for Congress is a further implied admission.
The Turtle is probably livid at this outcome.
“Trump made this happen, and he’s not even in office!
Damn him. Damn his name!...And after I promised Chuck Schumer that this would be a Slam Dunk! What will this do for my credibility?”
Yes. Of all the disappointments in my life with regards to government, it is the disillusionment of seeing it turn into a police state that depresses me the most.
I don’t. Trust. A. Single. Word. that comes out of the government now. I just assume they are lying.
And that cuts deep.
Kill it.
Then kill it again.
L
“Crucial “? To whom?
“ The bill’s failure also reflected the dramatic ideological shift in the Republican Party, which for years after the Sept. 11 attacks supported expansive surveillance in the name of national security”
BS! Nancy Pelosi and her crew not only supported it but expanded it and made it permanent!
both did. it was a bipartisan agenda item
It’s those crazy conservatives again. Wanting to reign in the gooberment police state. They’re just out of control aren’t they? /s
Nineteen House Republicans sided with Democrats Wednesday to defeat the rule, 228 to 193.
To the AP
They know it’s targeted at the conservatives
...a key US democrat spy tool.
“Crucial”? In what way? This isn’t journalism, it’s editorial.
“seeing it turn into a police state that depresses me the most.”
WTF?
What has been revealed for all the world to finally see is that it’s always been this way.
It’s nothing new.
Many just had things pretty good and believed the propaganda.
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