FISA Fiasco

Legislation to renew the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) failed to pass the House of Representatives earlier this week. But it did pass earlier today.

Conservatives are conflicted on this bill, but the majority of elected conservatives in Congress are clearly in favor of it.

There are some reforms in the current bill. Frankly, I wonder if “reforms” are enough at this point. But there is a stalwart group of skeptics, and I say, “God bless them!”

We all remember how people like James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Stzrok, and Lisa Page abused their power.

The supporters of this FISA law say, “Well, those rotten apples are all gone.” As a reminder, none of them went to jail. Instead, they’re making lots of money writing books and pontificating on CNN and MSNBC.

Anyone who thinks we have cleaned up the CIA, FBI, and Homeland Security isn’t paying attention. The left has permeated these institutions, and they are abusing their power to go after conservatives. (See item above.)

More importantly, we know the abuses are still continuing. (Here and here.)

We know that current FBI employees in multiple field offices were surveilling traditionalist Catholics because of the absurd belief that they were a terror threat. Not only was no one fired, but Director Wray has repeatedly resisted giving Congress correct information about the scandal.

We know the FBI spied on concerned parents at school board meetings using terrorist threat tags.

We just learned that after January 6^th, various government agencies collected massive amounts of data from phone companies and banks looking for various markers. They wanted to know who went to certain sporting goods stores and who purchased Bibles and other religious books.

And any information on American citizens these government agencies can’t get businesses to voluntarily surrender, they are buying in massive quantities.

We found out that the government was targeting historic American symbols like the Betsy Ross flag and the Gadsden flag as markers of “extremism.”

Many powerful progressives regularly equate normal conservative views with fascism or the Taliban. They smear Christian patriots as a threat to the country.

We know that a variety of government agencies are working with the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to identify “extremist groups.” Well, guess who the SPLC thinks the extremists are? All of us.