I can’t believe the reveal that FBI used section 702 to target January 6 participants wasn’t enough to get at least one faction in the House to vote against reauthorizing the bill last week. (I will play any card I can if it gets warrantless spying stopped.)
I guess Big Brother trumps petty partisanship concerns.
NYT had an article a few months ago (I submitted it here) attacking Republicans for turning against the FBI and saying this would put an end to sedition 702. Guess that was them panicking over nothing.
No republican will ever go against the spooks except if they are personally targeted by them (Trump). Even then, Trump wants a fanatically loyal group of spooks to act as his secret police. He's only temporarily against them.
Your only options to vote for if you dislike mass surveillance are hard left progressives (Bernie Sanders, Ron Wyden) or libertarians (though the ones who run with the republicans are unreliable on this issue).
The Democrats have been cozying up with the "deep state" more than Republicans in the last decade. Look at the origin of the Russiagate hoax and all that followed.
FBI is currently involved in the government effort trying to jail him for hundreds of years.
Trump's lawyers can't even get an answer as to which government agencies are involved in his prosecution, so you know, so that they could subpoena to get evidence in his defence.
It's not looking like these agencies will let Trump be president again, one way or another.
Trump threatened to pull out of Nato, and pissed off a lot of people. This week legislators passed a law banning a president from being able to do that.
Where did you hear this? Is discovery in his case different from discovery in any other legal case (prosecution is required to share all information they are preparing their case with, so that the defense can prepare a defense.
Or did he/one of his loyalists just /say/ that? I'm genuinely curious because I thought all legal defenses were allowed to read the discovery.
If your implication is that Trump is somehow truly against the spooks, just remember how eager he was to deploy federal marshals to cities like Portland and Seattle to round up protestors. Look to his past comments about the spooks. Before he was on their shit-list, he would make comments like this:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-insists-...
On top of that with the leaked classified documents that Trump exposed that compromised the agents in the first place it is probably a good reason to keep tabs on him to make sure he isn't working with a foreign agent. He should receive all the same treatment as any other citizen of course but let's not pretend Trump is an angel. He's gotten himself into a lot of shit.
I think where you are off track is that you don't realize that the Floyd protests were headed by people working directly with the spooks, just like the J6 protests. Perhaps why spooks get involved, to derail these things.
I don't know if either of the protests accomplished anything, as populist causes.
It's still a 50/50 what Floyd actually died from, since there were multiple contributing medical factors. Billions in economic damages from the looting/shut downs during the protests in these cities, something like 20+ were killed during the riots. The police are still funded.
Despite his rhetoric, in hindsight, Trump was politically savvy enough not to take the bait and send in the army to restore order. Which Miley was Chomping at the Bit to refuse. Trump would be in a prison cell today at best.
The J6 protest, turned into riot and delegitimized Trumps legitimate claims of election irregularities. No meaningful signature check has been done to this day.
Trump is currently beating Biden in polls, so he might be back.
I guess Big Brother trumps petty partisanship concerns.
NYT had an article a few months ago (I submitted it here) attacking Republicans for turning against the FBI and saying this would put an end to sedition 702. Guess that was them panicking over nothing.