➡ The FISA act, originally designed to prevent spying, is now being used as a legal cover to allow it. The government can force any company or individual that provides any service to assist in surveillance, as long as they have access to equipment where communications are transmitted or stored. This includes businesses, landlords, and even service providers who come into our homes. The amendment also prevents these people or businesses from revealing the assistance they were forced to provide, under threat of heavy penalties.
➡ The article discusses how politicians are hiding their true intentions by using vague language in amendments. It criticizes both Republicans and Democrats for expanding the power of surveillance and tax collection agencies, arguing that this is a threat to democracy. The author believes that politicians are not accountable and that federal elections are meaningless. The article ends by encouraging readers to think critically and question authority.

They have completely subverted and turned upside down, inside out 180 degrees, whatever you want to say. The FISA act, which is supposed to stop the spying, this has now become a vehicle to give them legal cover to spy. The only person who’s really been consistent on this, amazingly, is a Democrat, Ron Wyden, who I disagree with him on everything, but he’s always been there in terms of domestic surveillance for some reason.

You know, he was the one who asked the question of James Clapper, are you spying on the american people? Well, senator, not intentionally. Yeah, right. This is pretty intentional and it’s pretty hidden. And when people are questioning these congressmen on this committee, they just come back and say, well, this is classified. I can’t tell you anything, and you’re not entitled to know anything about that anyway. There’s no wonder that these people have kicked their responsibility over to the bureaucracy where we have taxation without representation, we have regulation without representation and all the rest of this stuff because they don’t want to represent us anyway.

And so Ron Wyden said in a post, he said, this bill represents one of the most dramatic and terrifying expansions of government surveillance authority and history. Other people are saying it’s like another Patriot act in terms of its extent. Again, he’s good on this, but only on this. But, you know, we, we just take these things issue by issue, really do. It’s all you can do. So Elizabeth Goyden, co director of Liberty and national security programs, had a very long list of a very long twe Twitter thread.

And as part of that, she said, buried in this section 702 reauthorization bill passed by the House last Friday is the biggest expansion of domestic surveillance since the Patriot Act. Wyden calls this power terrifying. And he’s right. She says under current law, the government can compel electronic communication service providers that have direct access to communications to assist the NSA in conducting section 702 surveillance. In the past, that would mean things like Verizon and Google would have to turn over the communications of the, any section 702 surveillance targets.

And the targets have to be foreigners who are overseas. See, that’s the key thing. They thought they had this sewed up, right? With a FISA, you can’t spy on Americans without a search warrant, and you can’t even spy on foreigners who are in America without a search warrant. And you can’t spy on Americans abroad without a search warrant. You can only spy on foreigners abroad under this FISA act.

And they start saying, yeah, but what about, what about if you’ve got that foreigner abroad, and he has communications with an american, or he’s got communications with another foreigner who has communications with another foreigner, who eventually has communications with an American. You see, this is like the six degrees of separation of Kevin Bacon, and they can go two or three different hops. When I talked to William Benny, he was talking about how, you know, we just go like three hops and you pretty much get everybody.

So the targets have to be foreigners overseas. But the communications can and do include communications with Americans. The House has now vastly expanded the universe of entities that can be compelled to assist the NSA. So it’s no longer just the phone company, Verizon or Google that have to turn this information over any company. This is what’s been changed with Speaker Johnson that he’s pushing so hard. And, of course, bipartisan.

You had 86 Republicans join in on this. The committee that is, like I said before when I talked about this, there was a split in the Republican Party between people who were on the House Judiciary Committee who were concerned about search warrants and abuses about that, or the Republicans who are on the committee that was tied to the intelligence community, let’s just say the CIA. Any company or individual that provides any service whatsoever may be forced to assist.

And NSA surveillance as long as they have access to equipment on which communications are transmitted or stored. So that means any router, any server, any cell tower, etcetera. So that sweeps an enormous range of us. Businesses that provide wifi to their customers. Barber shops, laundromats, fitness centers, hardware stores, dentist offices, fast food places. One of my longest friends, this is 20 years ago, when Wi Fi was a fairly new thing.

And so he goes to the fast food place. They got a sign up, says, free wi fi. And person in front of him places his order, how many hamburgers and fries he wants, and all this other kind of stuff, and he goes, oh, and I’d like some of that free whiffy. And the clerk who’s there doesn’t know what he’s talking about. I like free wifi, but my friend is looking at the sign.

He knows what he’s talking about, free wifi. And they go back and forth for a while. He’s dying trying to keep from laughing out loud. But, yeah, if you provide free wifi, they want a sniffy of whatever you’re getting from anybody out there. It also includes commercial landlords or offices of journalists and lawyers and nonprofits and financial advisors and healthcare providers, and on and on and on. In other words, everybody.

Everybody. It’s just like East Germany. Except it’s a lot worse. Matter of fact, when one person contacted the ranking Democrat member and said, this is looking like the Stasi, he got really offended about that. He said, well, I’ve seen all this stuff, and I’ve seen stuff that is classified and you can’t see it. And there’s nothing like the Stasi in here. Yeah, it’s a lot worse. A lot worse than the Stasi because it’s algorithmic and because it is automated and they have the power of computers and they have the ability to data mine.

It’s going to get more and more automated and more and more data mining as they bring in artificial intelligence to help them. It’s much, much worse than the Stasi, where you had half of the people spying on the other half of the people all the time. The amendment even extends to service providers who come into our homes. House cleaners, plumbers, people performing repairs, it service providers. Anybody who has access to laptops and routers inside of our homes could be forced to serve as surrogate spies, or you could be forced to serve as a spy on them.

You see, none of these people or businesses would be allowed to tell anybody about the assistance that they were compelled to provide. They, like you, would be put under a gag order, and you would face heavy penalties if you fail to comply with it. And that’s not even the worst part. Unlike Google and Verizon, most of these businesses and individuals like the ability to isolate and to turn over a target’s communication.

So you’ll have to give everything, perhaps even the equipment itself, so they can just narrow it down to one. But you just could turn over everything. NSA has a carte blanche to look at everything. This is why, you know, when Speaker Johnson said, he’s a war speaker, people just need to shut up because it’s a really difficult job. Look, we’re in unprecedented times, okay? We’re in dangerous times, as has been articulated here around the world and here at home.

We need steady leadership. We need steady hands at the wheel. Look, I regard myself as a wartime speaker. I mean, in a literal sense, we are. I knew that when I took the gavel, I didn’t anticipate that this would be an easy path. Former speaker Newt Gingrich posted a couple days ago on his social media that this is the hardest challenge that’s faced as speaker probably in the history of the country.

The moment we’re in right now, he said, arguably, maybe comparable to the civil war, but maybe worse. Well, you know, Newt’s a bit of a globalist as well, himself. But he did say something I thought was very wise. He said, you look at what’s happening, you got 80% of the people who want this and 20% of the people who want that. Where do you want to be? Where do you want to be? Mike Johnson, we’re in election year here.

What do you want to, you want to be with the 80% of the 20%? When I played that clip yesterday, I said, so when did we have that vote about war? That’s your responsibility, speaker, you should know that we don’t go to war without a declaration. And you were the guys who were supposed to do that. When did we have that? I missed it. And I said, well, maybe he’s talking about war with us, a literal war with us.

He said, literally at war. The NSA having wholesale access to domestic communications on an unprecedented scale would then be on the honor system. You know, they’re going to get your entire device and all your records, anything, because you can’t separate the stuff out, and they’ll be able to pull out and retain whatever they want. House leaders deny the administration has any intent to use this provision so broadly.

Listen to their excuse. Supposedly, there is a single type of service provider that the government wants to rope in, but they didn’t want anybody to know what that type of service provider was. So they hid the real goal by writing in the amendment as broadly and as vaguely as possible. So we want this particular type of service provider, but let’s just put everything in there so they don’t know what we really want.

Well, we know what you really want. You really want everything. Oh, don’t worry. That’s the only one that we’re going to do. We’re on an honor system. Of course, these people don’t even know the meaning of honor. So the administration is not actually going to use all that power. It just persuaded the House to give it. And of course, it is being pushed by Biden. Speaker Johnson is rubber stamping everything the Biden administration wants.

Tell me again, because I was just talking about that. Brendan Smith was saying, I used to think that there was no difference between Republicans and Democrats, but now with Trump, I know there’s a big difference. Tell me again, how about that difference there? Now, when you got Trump doing everything that all the other globalist presidents are doing at exactly the same time, what, what is the difference? You know, we didn’t see a difference politically from one country to the other.

I don’t see a difference within our own country. You know, we got this supposedly hard right christian conservative congressman who was that way before, he evidently had discussions with people saying, hey, we’re going to have wars. Let’s let you be the wartime speaker. We’ll get lots of money to you, and immediately comes out and say, yeah, I oppose all that money for Ukraine, but now I’m all for it.

How much do you want to increase the IR’s? I’m all for that, too. He’s not even going to go with the McCarthy reductions. You know, we’re not. We’re back to growing it. Make it seven times bigger than it was going to be instead of just five times bigger. We’re going back to what Pelosi wanted, what Biden wants. Give them everything they want. Because you want to go to war with the american people.

Well, you go to war with them by using the NSA. You go to war with them by using the IR’s. You go to war with them by using the FBI. As we talked about in that interview yesterday, they’re going to get a new headquarters center. It’s going to be twice the size of the Jagger Hoover building that they’ve got now. But of course they’ll keep the Jagger Hoover building as well.

So in other words, they’re going to be three times bigger. And that’s not just, you know, that’s just their headquarters. How many other people are they going to be adding in all these other different places? So explode the size of the surveillance police state. We explode the size that people are out there constantly entrapping Americans based on their political positions. We explode the size of the tax collectors.

And our republican conservative leader, speaker is all for it. He’s right there. No difference between him and Biden at all. So he says, I can’t overstate how mind blowingly irresponsible this is. I don’t think any administration should be trusted with norwegian power like this one, even if this administration doesn’t plan to make full use of it. Go ahead and fill in the rest of this. Right. We all know, and she’s other certain powers a government should never have in a democracy, and these are the powers these people are breaking legs to get.

You come with us on this or you’re out again. The guy, Jim Hines, the ranking Democrat, should say, here’s the thoughtful and conscientious reply he made to somebody who was concerned about this. You know. Yes, I know exactly what’s in there. Some of it is classified. None of it is Stasi like. You can sell your nonsense somewhere else, he said. This is the arrogance of politicians in an election year.

We’re well into the election year. This is their arrogance in an election year. They know that they’re not accountable. They know that these federal elections mean absolutely nothing. Folks, the federal level is gone. It’s been gone for a long time. It is bankrupt. It is non responsive. It is arrogant. It is at war with us. And both the Democrats and Republicans fit that bill at the federal level.

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