Congress will allow the FBI to SPY on YOU but NOT them?!



Congress is voting on whether to re-authorize FISA Section 702, which originated in the Patriot Act. Its re-authorization would allow the FBI to secretly spy on Americans without warrants.

“I remember thinking all they have to do is just change the meaning of terrorist,” Glenn Beck says, recalling the Patriot Act’s passing. “If they decide a group of Americans are terrorists, we’re done. And that’s exactly what they’ve done now.”

“We cannot allow Section 702 to pass,” he continues, adding, “We have given the keys to everything about us to the government, and the government has turned hostile on many Americans.”

Chip Roy is one of the congressmen fighting against it with a bill that has an amendment to add the Fourth Amendment protection. He believes it “could still pass,” but it seems like it won’t as “the speaker has put his finger on the scales.”

Thomas Massie is also fighting its re-authorization.

Massie says that the “biggest red flag” is that there are carve-outs in the bill for congressmen.

“If the FBI is surveilling you using FISA, they’re going into this database and searching with your name, and you’re a congressman, and they’re ostensibly doing it for your own good because they’re worried about the foreign actors — they have to notify you, but only if you’re a congressman, only if you’re a senator or a U.S. representative,” Massie explains.

This notification only applies to incumbent congressmen, not candidates.

“My solution here would just be get a warrant, and then you don’t have to put carve-outs for congressmen,” Massie says.


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The House of Representatives recently voted for an extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Section 702, which allows the warrantless surveillance of American citizens in certain cases.

However, this wasn’t just a Democrat effort.

147 Republicans voted for the extension, along with a majority of the Democrats.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) is in shock, saying the vote “just threw away the Fourth Amendment to our Constitution.”

73 Republicans and 45 Democrats voted against the extension.

Glenn Beck calls it “insanity,” asking Massie what those who voted for it were thinking.

“Well, Glenn, they put you in a SCIF here, one of these secret rooms without your phone, and they try to convince you the world’s going to end if you don’t allow them to reauthorize this, but that’s a false choice,” Massie explains.

While what has happened is far from good, there’s still a sliver of hope.

“People ask me ‘Is there any hope?’” Massie says, saying there’s a “5% chance we can fix it” and a “30% chance that it all goes to hell.”

But he plans on sticking it out through that “hell.”

“I can be here to try to put it back together,” he tells a somber Glenn.

Massie doesn’t want to defend them, but he doesn’t completely blame the 147 Republicans who “voted the wrong way,” either.

“They were given a false choice. They were saying, ‘If you don’t fund this program then we won’t be able to spy on terrorists, and oh, by the way, we’ve attached it to the military funding bill and the soldiers won’t get paid,’” Massie explains.

Glenn disagrees with Massie, in that those who voted poorly should be blamed.

“You’re being much too kind. I’m sorry, if you’re in Congress and you fall into that trap, which has been used over and over and over again by both sides, you’re a moron and not smart enough to be in Washington, D.C.,” Glenn says.


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