Late Night House FISA Shenanigans Results in a Two-Week Extension, But No Agreement on Reauthorization Bill
April 17, 2026 | Sundance
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/04/17/late-night-house-fisa-shenanigans-results-in-a-two-week-extension-but-no-agreement-on-reauthorization-bill/
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IRAN HAS JUST ANNOUNCED THAT THE STRAIT OF IRAN IS FULLY OPEN AND READY FOR FULL PASSAGE. THANK YOU!
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FTA:
The existence of the U.S. citizen data itself creates the opportunity to search it. The legal justification to search that database is done under the auspices of FISA-702; however, that’s not the issue. The issue is that searches of the NSA database are done by government officials and government contractors for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with FISA-702.
As a consequence, it’s the collection that creates the problem. Not the legal process for searching it. As long as the database exists there will be unlawful intrusions into it for domestic and/or political surveillance.
If FISA-702 did not exist, the quasi-constitutional justification for the wholesale collection of U.S. citizen metadata no longer exists. It really is that simple.