'Patriot Act 2.0' — Lindsey Graham's DANGEROUS plan after Trump shooting



FBI whistleblower Steve Friend has a warning in the aftermath of the assassination attempt on Trump — and it’s not for former President Trump.

“There was an exchange between deputy director Paul Abbate and Ron Johnson from Wisconsin, where to the layperson it seems reasonable the FBI wants to open up all avenues, remove the blindfold, have no blinders on, consider the fact that this could be assassination, this could be domestic terrorism,” Friend tells Jill Savage of “Blaze News Tonight.”

However, to the non-layperson — this could mean something more sinister.

“When you designate something as a domestic terrorist investigation, that enables you to make it classified, and when you have a classification code on there, you have to have a need to know in a security clearance,” Friend explains.

Because of that, the FBI can withhold information.

“The American people are not going to have the transparency that we ultimately need for this investigation,” he says.

While the FBI’s actions are concerning, that’s not Savage’s only concern.

“Lindsey Graham had a very concerning solution for the issues with the investigation,” Savage tells Friend.

“We have encrypted apps of an assassin, a murderer, and we can’t get into them all these days after,” Graham said. “That needs to be fixed folks. I’m all for privacy, but to a point.”

“What if, in the future, somebody’s using these apps to communicate with a foreign power. I think we need to know these things. We need to know them in real time,” he added.

Friend says that Graham’s suggestion would effectively render the Fourth Amendment a “dead letter, at that point.”

Graham’s use of the phrase “real time” is also concerning.

“Real time, which means continually monitoring it,” Friend explains.

“This is the government assuming that a tool will be used for ill, when it is just a tool. Because we don’t trust the government in this country. The job of law enforcement is not supposed to be easy. You’re supposed to have reasonable suspicion, probable cause, the burden is supposed to be there,” he adds.


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House Speaker Kills Effort To Stop The Feds From Spying On Americans Without A Warrant

Speaker Mike Johnson cast the tie vote to defeat an amendment requiring the feds to obtain a warrant to surveil Americans.

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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Newspaper owner sues small Kansas city, police department for raiding his home and office: 'Illegal as hell'



The owner of a small newspaper in Marion, Kansas, a city of fewer than 2,000 residents, is suing his city and local police department, among other defendants, after officers conducted a raid on his home and newspaper office last summer.

On Monday, Eric Meyer, owner of the Marion County Record, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Kansas, claiming that various public figures, in their official and personal capacities, violated his First and Fourth Amendment rights when they searched his home and office in August 2023. During those raids, investigators apparently seized computers, servers, hard drives, and even personal cell phones belonging to reporters, as Blaze News previously reported.

The raids on Meyer's home and office related to Kari Newell, a prominent Marion businesswoman who was seeking a liquor license for her restaurant. However, Meyer had received a tip that Newell had been illegally driving on a suspended license after a previous DUI conviction, information that likely would have put Newell's liquor license request in jeopardy.

Though Meyer's paper, the Marion County Record, never ran a story about Newell's past, Meyer did contact then-Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody and Marion County Sheriff Jeff Soyez to say that he would investigate whether local law enforcement had knowingly permitted Newell to drive on a suspended license.

Newell, who had also recently asked Meyer and another Record reporter to leave her coffee shop during an event for a Republican congressman, later accused Meyer of obtaining her private information in an "illegal" manner.

Within a matter of days, all five members of the Marion Police Department and two Marion County sheriff's deputies conducted the raids on Meyer's home and the Marion County Record office. The predicates for the search warrant were reportedly "identity theft of Kari Newell" and "unlawful acts concerning computers."

In the lawsuit, Meyer alleged that the raids were conducted in retaliation for unfavorable coverage of former Marion Mayor David Mayfield and former Chief Cody, who resigned from his position after footage from the raid allegedly showed him rifling through reporters' files about his previous work with the police department in Kansas City, Missouri.

Meyer has always claimed that the information regarding Newell's past was discovered legally since driving records are public. Yet, according to the lawsuit, Cody misrepresented the law regarding such information in the search warrant authorizing the raid.

Marion County District Court Magistrate Judge Laura Viar, who signed the search warrant, then almost immediately nullified it when she crossed out the line for a notary's signature, claiming that Chief Cody had sworn to the veracity of its contents "before me," even though Cody had not actually done so, the lawsuit said.

Meyer stated he also intends to add a wrongful death claim to the lawsuit in connection with his late mother, Joan Meyer. Joan Meyer co-owned the Record with her son and was present in his home at the time of the raids last August. "I’m not dumb," she told the officers that day, the lawsuit stated. "I may be ninety-some years old, but I know what’s going on. And what’s going on is illegal as hell."

She even predicted that the raids would kill her, warning the officers, "That’s going to be murder." Within 24 hours of the raids, Joan Meyer died of an apparent heart attack. She was 98.

The lawsuit does not list the financial damages sought for the raids, but Meyer did indicate that he will seek $5 million in the wrongful death claim.

"The last thing we want is to bankrupt the city or county, but we have a duty to democracy and to countless news organizations and citizens nationwide to challenge such malicious and wanton violations of the First and Fourth Amendments and federal laws limiting newsroom searches," Eric Meyer said.

Meyer also indicated he would donate "any punitive damages to community projects and causes supporting cherished traditions of freedom."

The lawsuit names many defendants: the City of Marion, former Mayor Mayfield, former Chief Cody, acting Marion Chief Zach Hudlin, Sheriff Soyez, the Marion County Board of Commissioners, and Detective Aaron Christner. Blaze News reached out to current Marion Mayor Michael Powers, Chief Hudlin, Sheriff Soyez, and David Mueller, the chair of the Marion County Board of Commissioners, for comment. We did not receive any responses.

Days after the raid last year, however, the Marion PD claimed in a Facebook post written in the first person that the officers' actions would ultimately be "vindicated."

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Did REPUBLICANS just vote to 'THROW AWAY the 4th Amendment'?!



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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THESE two 'knuckleheads' claim the 14th Amendment disqualifies Trump from running



On August 19, the Atlantic published a piece by — in Mark Levin’s words — “two knuckleheads,” titled, “The Constitution Prohibits Trump from Ever Being President Again.”

These “knuckleheads” are J. Michael Luttig and Laurence H. Tribe, who argue that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment provides that Donald Trump literally can be prevented from running for president.

“The former president’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, and the resulting attack on the U.S. Capitol, place him squarely within the ambit of the disqualification clause, and he is therefore ineligible to serve as president ever again,” the article reads.

“Of course these guys used to hate each other's guts, but this is what they come together on,” Levin laughs.

When grilled on their article in a segment on CNN, Tribe explains the pair's thinking is that “secretaries of state or other officials” will have to “determine whether despite his obvious attempt to overturn the 2020 election and engage in insurrection, whether despite that, somehow Trump gets to run, the secretaries of state around the country are going to go both ways on that.”

“Whichever way they go, they’ll be challenged in court, and that’ll end up in the Supreme Court, and what it will have to decide is what this language means,” he adds.

Levin is not amused.

“Just so you understand folks, there are more scholars who say no to this than say yes, but the ones who say yes obviously are promoted by the Jim Acostas and the media,” he says.


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