#Russiagate: WSJ Proposal to end the FISA Court. Victor Davis Hanson Hoover Institution
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🗓️ 25 May 2023
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#Russiagate: WSJ Proposal to end the FISA Court. Victor Davis Hanson Hoover Institution
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-surveillance-fisa-court-rudolph-contreras-a7f69cd6
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Albert Einstein here. Today I've popped into Dev's cafe. He's one of many business owners |
| 0:07.3 | who are already using a smart meter to feel more in control of their budgeting. A smart meter helps |
| 0:13.4 | you track your energy use and costs over time so you know how much you're spending on your energy |
| 0:19.3 | bills, meaning less time guessing and more time to focus on the other important... Do you want milk |
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| 0:29.2 | action required. This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Bachelorette. |
| 0:41.0 | Editorial in the Wall Street Journal. How FISA shields FBI abuses. The secret court helps the |
| 0:47.3 | bureau duck political accountability. This is the Wall Street Journal coming in at 20,000 feet |
| 0:53.5 | about something that can be known as Rushigate. I welcome Victor Davis Hansen of the Hoover |
| 0:59.2 | institution who's written much about Rushigate and watched the story over the years. And it had not |
| 1:04.8 | occurred to me that FISA was the problem. Victor if I understand correctly in recent remarks, |
| 1:10.7 | you are struck by one how America is apparently not either not paying attention or not learning |
| 1:17.6 | from the John Durham report about Rushigate's excesses. One of those excesses was the FBI using |
| 1:24.7 | the FISA court to permit it to surveil everybody they wanted to in the Russia-egate investigation |
| 1:34.8 | and to leak that surveillance to the media to defame Donald Trump and then during his first |
| 1:41.2 | term to undermine his government abolishing the FISA court. Is that a good idea, Victor? |
| 1:48.2 | Because what we're looking at here is we need to take make some changes before the FBI |
| 1:54.4 | troubles us again. Good evening to you. |
| 1:57.0 | Good evening, John. I think that the foreign intelligence surveillance act was part of that |
| 2:03.5 | that whole area of so-called reform in the 70s following Watergate by the Church Committee |
| 2:12.8 | in 78 and Ted Kennedy. And the idea was it was a liberal democratic idea to curve the interference |
| 2:20.3 | of the CIA and domestic politics. And then the abuses of J. Edgar Hoover and the successors. But |
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