Edward Snowden
@Snowden
(April 10, 2024)
If the Speaker is sincere, members must press him, because there is 𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 in the warrant requirement that limits the use of FISA 702 for genuine natsec. Exceptions exist for true emergencies: the "72 hour rule," exigent circumstance, etc.
I personally used 702 authorities at NSA. There is absolutely nothing in any briefing of any level, then or now, that would justify opposition to recognizing the government's obligation to seek a warrant for searches of Americans' communications, which are constitutionally-protected.
And frankly, let's be serious: the NSA and FBI have plainly demonstrated that they're more than comfortable violating the law when they feel it binds too tightly. 278,000 times just for one auth: 702. Millions and millions of times under others for Obama. And on a literally innumerable scale under Bush—we couldn't even count it. So let's not pretend that, in the apocryphal "ticking time-bomb" scenario of the Hollywood imagination, that a series of agencies which have since their inception been characterized by a criminally casual respect for the Constitution would feel in the slightest way encumbered by something as parochial as the law. After all, the legislation rarely ascribes penalties for federal infractions.
So please, reassure the good Speaker that there is no danger in imposing a warrant requirement. No amount of black-letter law will ever restrain these agencies in a case they consider to be of national importance—I am living witness to that—but if future Americans are to possess a sense of liberty in our increasingly measured and monitored world, Congress must explicitly forbid the casual abuse the people have endured over the last decades. Heed the nation's voice. Get a warrant.
"𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘭 𝘸𝘦 𝘥𝘰 𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳."
- Henry Kissinger, the Congressional Record of 1973
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Haley Talbot
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“When I was a member of Judiciary I saw the abuses of the FBI, the terrible abuses over and over and over… and then when I became Speaker I went to the SCIF and got the confidential briefing on sort of the other perspective on that to understand the necessity ...
Patrick Byrne
(Sept 19 2022)
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Patrick Byrne
(Sept 6, 2022)
(2 minute video)
Patrick talks about the precinct captains have a right to REQUIRE a HAND COUNT. After the ballots have ran through the machines (before the precinct captains sign a certification for the results). If they don't match don't sign to certify the results.
