Thirty House Republicans sent a letter Tuesday to GOP leadership, urging them to protect Americans’ second and fourth amendment rights.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is aiming to vote on reauthorizing and potentially reforming deep state spy powers next week, according to a report.
Congress faces a chaotic schedule when it returns in the new year. Here are four of the more pressing issues when Congress returns in two weeks.
As privacy-oriented lawmakers continue waging their war to rein in government surveillance abuse, there have been several startling revelations about the government’s abuse of government surveillance laws.
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), one of the leaders behind the fight to reform a deep state surveillance law, on Friday said Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) strategy was more “appeasement” than leadership.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) warned in an interview with Breitbart News Daily that the alleged short-term extension of a deep state surveillance law could extend it well into 2025.
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.
Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH), a staunch privacy advocate, accused House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) on Monday of “f*cking lying” about the Protect Liberty Act, a House Judiciary Committee-advanced bill meant to reform a controversial deep state surveillance law.
The House this week will vote on two competing FISA reform bills, the Protect Liberty and End Warrantless Surveillance Act, and the other which has been derided by privacy advocates as the “PATRIOT Act 2.0.”
Former House Judiciary Committee Chairmen Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and Lamar Smith (R-TX) endorsed the House Judiciary Committee-advanced bill, the Protect Liberty and End Warrantless Surveillance Act.
Speaker Mike Johson (R-LA) backtracked and caved to the deep state and Democrats, moving to slip a deep state authorization into the defense bill.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) said during a Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday that Congress cannot trust the FBI because Director Christopher Wray could not say who has been punished for violating Americans’ rights.
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.
House and Senate conservatives on Wednesday sounded the alarm on a potential move by congressional leadership to extend a deep state surveillance law in a defense bill.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) opposes any extension of a deep state surveillance law in the upcoming defense bill, temporary or otherwise.
Fifty-four House lawmakers, Democrat and Republican, conservative and progressive, called on Speaker Mike Johnson not to extend a controversial deep state surveillance law in a defense bill.
Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) office has refused to confirm Rep. Matt Gaetz’s claim that there will be no reauthorization, temporary or otherwise, of a deep state surveillance tool.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is considering putting a measure to reauthorize a controversial government surveillance law into a defense spending bill, which could stoke division amongst Republicans and block strong bipartisan efforts to rein in surveillance overreach.
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), the chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance, wrote that the White House National Drug Control Policy’s secret funding of a surveillance program proves that surveillance reform must go far beyond Section 702 of FISA.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) told Breitbart News in an exclusive statement that the House Intelligence Committee’s proposed reforms are “mere window dressing” and may even expand government surveillance programs.
President Joe Biden’s White House has shot down a massive bipartisan bill to reform America’s surveillance laws — without reading the sweeping proposal that is backed by lawmakers across the spectrum.
The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday advanced legislation that would bar the federal government from circumventing the Fourth Amendment by purchasing Americans’ private data without a warrant.
Rep. Jim Jordan plays a pivotal role in the decision-making on if Congress will reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) told Breitbart News in an exclusive that his “number one goal” this year is to block reauthorization of what is known as the “crown jewel” for the intelligence agencies.
An FBI audit found the agency had “insufficient justification” for two searches of Americans’ communications relating to “January 6th Capitol Violence.”
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) told Breitbart News, in an exclusive interview Monday, that the FBI’s claim that surveillance of Rep. Darin LaHood (R-IL) was “counterintelligence” is merely a “cover story.”
The House Judiciary Committee on Thursday will investigate how Section 702, a law that was designed to help combat terrorism, has been “weaponized against” Americans.
The House Judiciary Committee is expected to hold a hearing next week on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) ahead of Section 702’s reauthorization this December, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.
The New York Times reported that the warrantless surveillance of Rep. Darin LaHood (R-IL) was a counterintelligence measure.
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.
An expiring surveillance program known as the “crown jewel” for American intelligence agencies allows for an opportunity for civil liberties advocates and deep state-skeptical Republicans to push for reform.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday sided with the FBI by a 9-0 vote in a case involving the state secrets privilege where three Muslim men alleged the federal government unlawfully surveilled them.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case on the controversial 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for the first time.
James Clapper’s video and audio connection with CNN died during a Thursday segment on CNN after he was asked about leaks of classified information to news media.
The FBI heavily relied on a Democrat-funded dossier by former British spy Christopher Steele to spy on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, even after learning that the document likely contained Russian disinformation, evidence declassified this week revealed.
