Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to the weekly report.

Congress's gift to America this Christmas.

Just before leaving town for Christmas break,

the U.S. House gave Americans a last minute holiday

gift. A nearly trillion dollar military spending bill filled with lots of goodies for the special interest and the military

industrial complex. Unfortunately the rest of America got nothing but

coal in its stockings.

With constitutionalists, like Representative Thomas Massey

on the House Rules Committee,

Speaker Johnson made the unusual move

to bringing the National Defense Authorization Act

under suspension of the rules which bypasses the Rules Committee but

requires two-thirds of the House to pass the bill.

Considering that Speaker Johnson tossed into the must-pass bill,

yet another extension of Section 702 of the FISA Act, it's unsurprising that he wanted

to rush the bill through without the possibility of amendment.

Section 702 allows the government to intercept and retain

without a warrant the communications of any American who is in contact with a non-U.S. citizen.

It is clearly a violation of the Fourth Amendment, which is supposed to protect Americans against unreasonable searches and seizures.

Section 702 was legalized under President George W. Bush during the War on Terror

after it was revealed that Bush was using

the National Security Agency to illegally spy on Americans.

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