FISA abuse

Congress punted the fight to reauthorize a key spy powers fight for more six weeks as privacy advocates see another opportunity to reform the controversial surveillance law.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) on Monday wrote to National Security Agency (NSA) Director Joshua Rudd about multiple instances of “deeply troubling abuses of power” by NSA analysts who have misused Section 702 of FISA to search private communications, including a person met through a dating service and a potential tenant.

Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) on Thursday unveiled the ‘Protect Liberty and End Warrantless Surveillance Act,’ a bill that would reauthorize Section 702 of FISA while protecting Americans’ civil liberties. 

Conservatives are banding together to urge Speaker Mike Johnson against rushing through a reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) without measures to protect American citizens from a weaponized Deep State.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) discuss the extension of the current Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) provisions in the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) bill.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) will soon unveil the committee’s proposal to rein in a controversial deep-state surveillance program that will expire by the end of the year.

The House Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance will hold a hearing on the FBI’s abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) on Friday, July 14.

The House Intelligence Committee announced on Wednesday its working group to reform what is referred to as the “crown jewel” for American intelligence agencies.

Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) and Warren Davidson (R-OH) said in a joint statement on Wednesday that lawmakers need to seize the opportunity to secure Americans’ civil liberties. 

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview that there is “no chance in hell” that Congress reauthorizes the “crown jewel” for American intelligence agencies without a major fight from progressive and conservative lawmakers that want to reform.

Just as the corporate media have been smearing Donald Trump since he launched his successful run for the presidency, editors on Wikipedia have done the same. This has included a college professor at the beginning of Trump’s term pushing students to add attacks on the President, editors placing mocking or incendiary articles about him on the site’s front page, equating Trump with the Nazis, and advancing the Russian collusion and Ukraine “quid pro quo” smears that have dominated his Administration.

Wikipedia’s page on the infamous dossier crafted by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele is heavily slanted in favor of treating the dossier as a credible document, despite it being debunked by multiple federal investigations. One reason for this bias is the page’s primary author, “Valjean” a.k.a. Paul Lee, who is also an active member of the anti-Trump “Resistance” on Twitter as “TheDudeSeesAll” and relentlessly pushes baseless claims on Wikipedia and social media that Trump is a Russian asset.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said that the FBI mischaracterized, misled, and lied to the Senate Intelligence Committee.

After radio host Mark Levin criticized the “police-state tactics” of the Obama Administration in its use of intercepts and FISA warrants in 2017, editors on Wikipedia began to attack Levin’s credibility through edits to his page on the site. The criticism, which allegedly prompted President Donald Trump’s controversial wire-tapping allegations, has since been vindicated by revelations about widespread falsehoods in FISA warrants issued against Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, seen now as part of a broader Obamagate scandal. A number of attacks on Levin eventually ended up in news articles shortly before and after the premiere of his show on Fox News.

“I’m not sure I read every word, but I certainly reviewed it,” Rod Rosenstein said of the misleading FISA application.

Graham announced his committee will debate and vote on authorizing subpoenas of former Obama administration officials.

Graham said Thursday the Judiciary Committee will begin holding hearings on the FBI’s investigation into the Trump campaign.

Newly declassified documents show that in order to build its dubious case of Russian collusion to a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court, James Comey’s FBI utilized the misleading Democratic Party talking point that Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign had the Republican Party platform gutted so as to “not provide defensive weapons to Ukraine.”

Newly declassified documents spotlight the role of John Kerry’s State Department in fueling the FBI’s dubious Russia collusion probe, showing it was the State Department that provided “information” leading to the controversial surveillance of Carter Page.

Newly released material exposes previously unknown details showing the extent of the FBI’s controversial surveillance of Carger Page, who served as a tangential campaign adviser to President Donald Trump.

In a Wednesday interview with Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” House Minority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) emphasized the importance of holding anybody who abuses the FISA Court process accountable amid allegations of abuse during the Russia investigation and suggestions to ref

During an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Lindsey Graham (R-SC) discussed his investigation into potential FISA abuses in regards to President Donald Trump and the Russia investigation.

U.S. Attorney General (AG) William Barr has installed a federal prosecutor to review the criminal case leveled against retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, the New York Times reported Friday.

The FISC did not order the FBI to recheck FISA applications involving other officials who made omissions and errors.

The FISA court “should be eliminated,” recommended Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) in a Thursday interview with Breitbart News.

Democrats and the left corrupt American tradition and institutions in their campaign against President Donald Trump, said Peter Schweizer.

The Senate has held two hearings on the release of a DOJ IG report detailing FBI misconduct, but the House has yet to hold one.

The FISC said in an order the FBI’s handling of the warrant applications was “antithetical” to its “heightened duty of candor.”

A thorough review of the Justice Department’s Inspector General report about the FBI’s Russia collusion investigation makes clear that separate probes are immediately needed to check questionable actions taken by the Obama-era State Department under John Kerry in fueling the Russia hoax.

House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Rep. Adam Schiff (R-CA) wrote to the committee’s chairman, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), on Sunday, suggesting that after a series of lies, “it is clear you are in need of rehabilitation.”

The DOJ IG report revealed Kevin Clinesmith doctored an email that proved that Carter Page was working with the U.S. government.

The Justice Department inspector general report released on Monday shed light on some disturbing findings with how the FBI handled the investigation and surveillance of the Trump campaign.

CNN opted against airing Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the FBI’s Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) abuses during its investigation of the 2016 Trump campaign. 

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday will hold a hearing on the Department of Justice’s Inspector General’s report on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) abuse investigation.Inspector General Michael Horowitz will testify before the committee. Stay tuned to Breitbart News for live updates. All times eastern.