Rep. Mike Johnson Tries, Fails To Sneak Clean Section 702 Re-Authorization Past The Goal Line

Rep. Mike Johnson Tries, Fails To Sneak Clean Section 702 Re-Authorization Past The Goal Line

Despite a bunch of Republican lawmakers being extremely (and mostly performatively) upset that their communications were accessed during investigations of the January 2021 insurrection attempt, the current version of the Trump administration seems to prefer a clean re-authorization of the surveillance powers it so recently deemed a dangerous part of the "deep state." The FISA…

FISA Will Have Safeguards or There Will Be No FISA

Rep. Ralph Norman said there will be safeguards on FISA that will prevent what happened to Trump from ever happening again. It’s well known that the DoJ asked for a search warrant on an innocent Professor of Russian history based on the ridiculously fake dossier. Rep. Norman believes they will reach a deal in a few days. I don’t see President Trump signing off on any deal that doesn’t have safeguards. FISA FIGHT NOT OVER@RepRalphNorman says the…

Conservatives Killed the Five Year FISA Extension and One Secret Detail Shows Why It Needs to Go For Good

The last time Congress renewed FISA, Donald Trump posted two words: "KILL FISA." Thursday night, twenty conservatives did exactly that – stopping a five-year surveillance extension cold at 2 am. One of them had just walked out of a classified briefing room with proof the program is worse than anyone admitted. What Happened on the […]

FISA Section 702 Extension: House Conservatives Block Renewal

The Senate approved a 10-day extension of FISA Section 702 surveillance powers by unanimous voice vote on Friday, a stopgap measure forced by House conservatives who refused to rubber-stamp a clean, long-term renewal of the government's most expansive warrantless spying authority. The House had agreed to the brief extension by unanimous consent earlier Friday morning, pushing the new expiration date to April 30, and the real fight to a later rou…