Keep in mind the FISA (702) extension already passed the House, and the bill is sitting in the Senate where the ever-predictable John Thune is not bringing it up for a vote.
This morning the House tried to pass a short-term FISA (702) extension for three weeks (ending July 2). The measure failed by a vote of 218 to 198. In addition to Democrats, nineteen republicans also voted against it.
The Democrats are claiming their lack of support surrounds the appointment of Bill Pulte as Acting DNI effective June 19, and their concern that Pulte will weaponize the FISA (702) authority to conduct political surveillance. Yes, it’s a rather hypocritical projection within their claim.
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Now, you might ask yourself…. where in the world would the Democrats get the idea that FISA (702) would be used to get “dirt on President Trump’s political enemies.” What would lead them to that suspicion?
As customary, the radical leftists are projecting based on their own conduct. This is the same “702” authority that Barack Obama and Joe Biden previously used to do exactly that political surveillance. We have outlined the entire operation in granular detail citing all of the FISA records that showed exactly what the Obama-Biden group were doing.
It’s difficult to keep general information hidden in/around Washington DC, and I suspect Democrat Leadership have heard something about what DNI Tulsi Gabbard is poised to release surrounding FISA (702) abuse.
For more than a few years CTH has been chasing multiple records relating to known FISA (702) abuses, including our effort to get the previous notification from the National Security Agency (NSA) to the FISA Court which outlined key details about which offices, agencies and portals were used by “contractors” to exploit the NSA database.
Additionally, do not forget there are classified versions of Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s investigative report(s) on known FISA 702 abuses once he was given access to the Dept of Justice National Security Division. Horowitz specifically investigated Obama era FISA (702) abuses and outlined two reports, one public (redacted) and one classified.
Without going into a lot of detail, I suspect Tulsi Gabbard and Aaron Lucas might be releasing some newly declassified information surrounding prior NSA database abuse and declassified information about the identified surveillance targets therein. This might explain where that unusually specific concern from Democrat leadership is originating.
Methinks they doth protest too much.
