shills seem totally unhinged this morning
could it be the cme's are pushing them into overdrive?
The FBI is at it again, going after US citizens with a little help from Speaker Johnson and the rest of Congress, who voted to extend the FBI’s 702 FISA powers. Remember, these are the same powers they used illegally against President Trump and his team without ever facing the consequences. Now, they’re back in action, ready to crank up the wiretaps, all thanks to our “captured” lawmakers. As a matter of fact, about 20 minutes before becoming Speaker, Mike Johnson was against the FBI’s warrantless wiretaps. But that stance took a quick turn after the feds got him alone in a locked room and really worked him over.
The Hill:
But as Speaker, Johnson has done a full 180, opposing a new warrant requirement for Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) — and infuriating Judiciary members who feel that requirement is crucial for preventing Justice Department abuses.
“These were views that the Speaker deeply held, like, 20 minutes ago,” Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) said Wednesday shortly before leading an effort to tank a procedural vote that would have kicked off debate on the broader FISA reform bill.
Johnson isn’t disguising the change of tune, saying the reversal is a simple function of learning more about the program as Speaker and deciding it’s vital to national security — and that his earlier criticisms were off target.
“When I was a member of Judiciary, I saw all of the abuses of the FBI — there were terrible abuses, over and over and over,” Johnson told reporters in the Capitol on Wednesday evening.
“And then when I became Speaker, I went to the SCIF and got the confidential briefing from sort of the other perspective on that, to understand the necessity of Section 702 of FISA and how important it is for national security. And it gave me a different perspective,” he continued, using an abbreviation for sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF).
Now, thanks to Johnson and the rest of the uniparty turncoats in Congress, the FBI is practically drooling over the prospect of spying with impunity on unsuspecting Americans. They’ll likely kick things off with Trump supporters, keep the ball rolling with more Trump supporters, and then really zero in on—guess who?—Trump supporters. You know the drill.
J Michael Waller:
WIRED: New @FBI email revelation shows MORE surveillance planned after Congress extended FISA 702 powers.
“The deputy director’s email seems to show that the FBI is actively pushing for more surveillance of Americans, not out of necessity but as a default,” says @RepZoeLofgren (D-CA). “This directly contradicts earlier assertions from the FBI during the debate over Section 702’s reauthorization.”
https://revolver.news/2024/05/thanks-mike-johnson-wiretaps/