Well. Billingsley is correct, directionally, about Section 702 of the so-called Patriot Act.
It needs to go. It has been a vehicle for abuse, since about 2004. He’s right.
It is… a VP Dick Cheney creation. [Billingspuss was silent.]
Back then it was mostly used to spy on good US citizens who happened to follow Islam.
A religion. [Billingspuss was silent.]
It was used to spy without warrants on US citizens, in the US — and outside our borders. [Billingspuss was silent.] The late Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, John Conyers (D, MI) was right.
That “inside our borders” application / portion is per force unconstitutional.
And it was the GOP that blocked — over and over — Chairman Conyers and other Democratic Senators (including Patrick Leahy) from amending Sections 702 and 215 of the Bush43 monstrosity called the Patriot Act. [Billingspuss was silent — for 20 years.]
Yet he only now complains — in 2023: as Mr. Biden has the power to wield it against the violent MAGA offshoots (whyte supremacists).
Honestly, I don’t think the DoJ or DHS needed warrantless surveillance as to J6-ers. They were so stupid — much of the evidence was in open text and email and video. Selfies at the crime scene, for example. Walking into public buildings with signs that say “you are being recorded”.
These MAGA guys are… dunces.
Even so… Gee — the wording of Section 702 is what it was in 2003 — but he waited 20 years to complain.
I wonder… why.
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