Rep. Bob Good (R-VA) leads a press conference held by the House Freedom Caucus calling on colleagues to not reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act as it stands, saying it opens up citizens' 4th amendment rights to abuse. During the briefing, Caucus members criticized the current structure of FISA while advocating for more protections for Americans from warrantless searches and the government's buying of data which would otherwise require a warrant, demanding changes be made to the law before any renewal.
you'll often hear someone joke about the
government spying on
us but sadly that is true that's true in
our country today current law allows the
US government to collect data on you
it's section 702 of the foreign
intelligence surveillance act or fisa
but House Republicans under the
leadership of speaker Johnson are on the
verge of reauthorizing Visa this is the
same law that the FBI used and abused
mind you to spy on President Trump's
campaign for provided the impetus for
the Shameless false ridiculous Russian
collusion Scandal to prevent such a
tragedy from happening to other
Americans conservatives have worked in
good faith throughout the
reauthorization process to protect
Americans Fourth Amendment rights from
Deep state agencies like the FBI and the
NSA unfortunately the house intelligence
committee and the DC swamp are working
overtime to make sure that fisa is
reauthorized in a secret way as secretly
as possible and putting the
constitutional right rights of millions
of Americans instead of upfront on the
back burner during this debate today
with my colleagues who are assembled
here you're going to hear or not during
this from my colleagues but during the
the larger debate you'll hear false
narratives about this bill supposedly
restricting law enforcement from doing
their job and hampering our ability to
keep the country safe and those claims
frankly are false simply put Anonymous
bureaucrats have abused this tool that
was intended for foreign surveillance or
of threats to spy on Amer American
citizens but conservatives are fighting
for strict reforms to this law fisa was
reauthorized in 2018 since then the
world has changed from both a national
security standpoint a technologically
advanced standpoint that has resulted in
more of your data being in the hands of
the tech companies we need to find that
balance between keeping the nation safe
while protecting you from big government
and prominently has to be the rights of
US citizens the free constitutional
freedoms that are protected To Us by
this country the Judiciary bill was
overwhelmingly approved on a bipartisan
basis it turns out Democrats don't want
to be spied on by their government
either at the end of the day we've got
to make sure that our government can't
keep spying on its citizens without a
warrant that we can't keep buying data
that would otherwise require a warrant
that the federal government cannot
expand the spying to cover local private
Wi-Fi hotspots and that we can't allow
the government this Congress to allow
more ways for the federal government to
spy on
us
