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House Speaker Mike Johnson betrayed liberty and the Constitution by making a full-court press to get a “clean” reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Act through the House.
Section 702 authorizes warrantless surveillance of foreign citizens. When the FISA Act was passed, surveillance state boosters promised that 702 warrantless surveillances would never be used against American citizens. However, intelligence agencies have used a loophole in 702, allowing them to subject to warrantless surveillance any American who communicated with a non-US citizen who was a 702 target. Intelligence agencies could then also conduct warrantless surveillance on any Americans who communicated with the new American target. This Section 702 loophole has been used so often to subject Americans to warrantless wiretapping that it has been referred to as the surveillance state’s crown jewel.
A bipartisan coalition of Republican and Democratic House members worked to add a warrant requirement to the FISA bill. Speaker Johnson agreed to allow a vote on the House floor on an amendment requiring federal officials to get a warrant before subjecting any American to surveillance. However, he publicly opposed the amendment, as did President Biden. Prominent deep state operatives, such as former Secretary of State and CIA Director Mike Pompeo, also lobbied against the amendment.
The case against adding a warrant requirement to FISA consisted of hysterical claims that forcing the surveillance state to obey the Fourth Amendment would make Americans vulnerable to terrorist attacks. Particularity, the claim was made that forcing national security operatives to get a warrant before spying on US citizens would cripple the ability to respond to a “ticking time bomb” situation.
Those claims were debunked by the heroic Edward Snowden, who made the American people aware of the extent of warrantless surveillance. Snowden, who worked as a government contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA), posted in a message on X (formally known as Twitter) that the warrant amendment would not stop federal agencies from acting without a warrant in a “ticking time bomb” situation.
A vote was held Friday afternoon on the amendment requiring a warrant before Section 702 powers would be used to spy on American citizens. Despite the fearmongering by Mike Pompeo and others, as well as the opposition of both President Biden and Speaker Johnson, the amendment failed to pass by only one vote. The amendment would have passed had Speaker Johnson not cast a rare floor vote (speakers usually do not vote on legislation) against the amendment.
When the PATRIOT Act was rushed to the House floor in the fall of 2001 — weeks after 9-11 — and voted upon before members had a chance to read it, only three Republicans voted against it. One conservative representative told me he voted for it even though he agreed with my opposition to the bill. He told me, “I can’t go back home and tell my constituents I voted agent the PATRIOIT Act!”
While the failure to pass the warrant amendment was dispiriting, the fact that it failed by only one vote shows how much progress we have made. It should thus inspire us to keep encouraging Congress to refuse to take away real liberty in the name of promises of phantom security.
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If we could trust federal officials to act reasonably when conducting searches and other aspects of their job, we would not need to go to these lengths to restrict them. We cannot trust them, so we need lots of rules, so they do not bull their way through the lives of other people.
fisa stands for fascist israeli sturm abteilung. the night of the long knives will be here soon.
– ‘ The case against adding a warrant requirement to FISA consisted of hysterical claims that forcing the surveillance state to obey the Fourth Amendment would make Americans vulnerable to terrorist attacks. ‘
– ‘ While the failure to pass the warrant amendment was dispiriting, the fact that it failed by only one vote shows how much progress we have made. It should thus inspire us to keep encouraging Congress to refuse to take away real liberty in the name of promises of phantom security. ‘
The problem unfortunately is paper law can be anything. The constitutions, if read supposed premises, then also amendments, there is neither ground or any real protection from paper law. Some people, cannot contract ‘for’ other people, which is fraud. On further research, paper law came from a group labeling themselves he-brew, then made another label of jews, however, unbeknownst to most people, they are not one group. The writers behind monotheism, are not the same as common jews. The group of planners, also from monotheism plans, made systems, ‘courts, judges law-yers, and state or ‘govt, from their monotheism plans.
Its said the ‘founders were all lawyers, so With that as focus, if then read first amendment, its not only about supposed speech as people assume, and isn’t the first part –
– ‘ Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. ‘
There are many claims in the run-on sentence, and each has since been controverted. The claim ‘no law respecting’ was immediately controverted by handing religions ‘no tax’ status’, and claim to restrict what others say or not, gone per scheme of scribbling ‘sedition’ laws. Also the claim ‘peaceably ‘ assemble is dictating what people do or not to defend from ‘govt ‘state threatening such as ‘covid’ vaxs schemes. Also its false to claim to ‘give right’ to ‘speak, since we already had, by natural right natural law, which could be said the ‘lawyer’ ‘founders’ claimed, so to then claim to –dictate what cant say, as is going on.
The religon claims, ‘no prohibit excerise thereof, – actualy used to protect parts that are scheme, including lying, and destruction, search ‘kol nidre’ lying, and mass destruction scheme in parts of bible. The lying is critical, becasue that’s what schemers use to concoct false ‘law, then, use it to destroy people, while fronting as ‘state or ‘courts.
In other words, what common people assume as somethng benign, isn’t.
The situation is something other than people assume, milions have been affected, and will be more, threats against ‘hate’, which hate is natural and necessary to be alive, and against privacy etc, as Paul points to in article.
Though more people are waking up, many haven’t been aware of premise problem or other contradictions. At one time maybe was possible to significantly re-write, but then again unless every person agreed, woundn’t be binding. The main point thought to make on article, natural law is first law, failure to push back, whether bad paper law or privacy invasion etc, guarantees more of it.
Important to focus local, share what we know.
Appreciate the article.
ps. as side note, will mention again, letter type, fonts, make a difference in perception, should make browswer font into sans serif, not use serif, which is apathetic, also use sans when writing letters to others. Clean crisp, stronger. better focus.