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FISA exchanges real liberty for phantom security.

House Speaker Mike Johnson betrayed Liberty and the Constitution by making a full court press to get a clean reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act through the House.

Section 702 authorizes warrantless surveillance of foreign citizens. When the FISA Act was passed,

surveillance state boosters

promised that 702 warrantless surveillance

would never be used against American citizens.

However, intelligence agencies have used a loophole in 702,

allowing them to subject to warrantless surveillance any American who communicated with a

non-US citizen who was a 702 target.

Intelligence agencies could then also conduct warrantless

surveillance on any Americans who communicated with the new

American target. This section 702 loophole has been used to often to subject Americans to

warrantless wiretapping that has been referred to as the surveillance state's crown jewel.

A partisan coalition of Republican and Democratic House members

worked to add a warrant requirement to the FISA bill.

Speaker Johnson agreed to allow a vote on the House floor on an amendment requiring

federal officials to get a warrant before subjecting any Americans to

surveillance. However, he publicly opposed the amendment, as did President Biden.

Prominent deep state operatives such as former Secretary of State

and CIA Director Mike Pompeo also lobbied against the amendment. The case against adding a warrant requirement to FISA consisted of hysterical claims that forcing the surveillance state to obey the

fourth amendment would make Americans vulnerable to terrorist attacks.

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