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The Biden Stasi suffered a temporary setback in Congress when a government snooping bill was blocked.
As iconic rocker David Bowie once sang, “We can be heroes, just for one day,” that’s what a small group of House lawmakers were on Wednesday when they joined together to thwart Speaker Mike Johnson who is looking more and more like a Deep State tool.
With the ongoing renewals of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) normally a rubber stamp formality, nineteen conservative Republicans dealt a blow to their embattled leader by rejecting his request to advance the bill, a grotesque affront to the privacy rights of Americans with its warrantless spying, none of which is subject to any sort of legitimate oversight.
The lawmakers successfully thwarted the bill that Johnson had championed, preventing it from coming to the floor by torpedoing a procedural vote in a rebuke of the double-dealing Speaker who is on precarious ground and badly needing to retain his political capital for the coming betrayal on the Ukraine foreign aid package.
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) who has been an outspoken critic of the abuses of the Deep State and its secret courts, hailed the efforts of the nineteen Republicans who “stood strong” to strike a blow against the surveillance state leviathan.
19 Republicans stood strong and defeated the FISA bill today, instead insisting on real reform to FISA (no secret courts should be allowed to spy on Americans). https://t.co/uUNf8FkAVA
— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) April 10, 2024
The mini-rebellion came after former President Donald J. Trump urged GOP lawmakers to not approve the extension.
“KILL FISA, IT WAS ILLEGALLY USED AGAINST ME, AND MANY OTHERS. THEY SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN!!!” Trump said on his Truth Social platform before the latest humiliation of Johnson.
KILL FISA, IT WAS ILLEGALLY USED AGAINST ME, AND MANY OTHERS. THEY SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN!!! DJT
Donald Trump Truth Social 01:43 AM EST 04/10/24
— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) April 10, 2024
More than anyone else, Trump should know about the Democrats’ repurposing of the awesome powers of an all-seeing, all-hearing total surveillance apparatus that was sold to Americans as being necessary to prevent another 9/11 to use as a weapon against their political enemies.
Obama weaponized the (FBI) to spy on Trump; he had them wiretap his phones at Trump Tower… pic.twitter.com/PdXzvpMymt
— Chicago1Ray (@Chicago1Ray) February 13, 2022
“The Leader of the Republican Party just told the truth about the FISA bill that Speaker Johnson is bringing to the floor,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) wrote on X in response to Trump’s call to action. “Johnson already fully funded the DOJ that wants a death sentence for Trump, is he going to continue to give the deep state the tools to kill Trump?”
But the victory will likely be fleeting because FISA – as Tucker Carlson so eloquently puts it – “like herpes, it’ll be back.”
Ep. 92 The FISA bill is dead but, like herpes, it’ll be back. It’s important to punish the people that pushed it. pic.twitter.com/QFRh16SsRL
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) April 10, 2024
“These agencies spied on Trump, and they leaked some of what they’d learned to the media which used it against Trump,” Carlson said.
“For the third time in three consecutive cycles, secretive federal agencies are trying to rig our presidential election,” he added. “This is what the Democrats refer to as democracy, and they’re trying to defend it.”
“But of course, it’s the opposite of democracy. It’s in fact the end of democracy in any semblance of a constitutional republic we ever had. If you have a secret police force, threatening people, spying on people and working secretly the levers of political power then you don’t have a democracy,” Carlson noted, an observation that becomes increasingly difficult to deny with the NSA, CIA, FBI and all the other alphabet soup agencies having gone rogue on behalf of the Democrats.
The ascendance of a police state that serves the interests of one political party is a fearsome development and as hard as it is to admit it, the America that long existed as a Constitutional republic is already gone. It has been hollowed out by usurpers who are parading around wearing its skin like a trophy under the banner of “our democracy” which is anything but.
Tucker is right, FISA will be back with a vengeance, just like it always is. Especially if Chuck Schumer’s puppet has anything to say about it.
“We will regroup and formulate another plan,” Johnson said. “We cannot allow Section 702 of FISA to expire. It’s too important to national security. I think most of the members understand that.”
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Author: Chris Donaldson
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