Trump threatens to veto FISA bill ahead of House vote
Source: The Hill
BY MORGAN CHALFANT AND JORDAIN CARNEY - 05/27/20 07:08 PM EDT
President Trump is threatening to veto legislation reauthorizing expired government surveillance tools if it passes in the House, citing massive abuse of the government powers in the Russia investigation.
If the FISA Bill is passed tonight on the House floor, I will quickly VETO it. Our Country has just suffered through the greatest political crime in its history. The massive abuse of FISA was a big part of it! Trump tweeted Wednesday, referring to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Link to tweet
Trumps opposition to the legislation, first voiced Tuesday night, threw a major curveball into its passage. The bill would reauthorize three lapsed surveillance programs under the USA Freedom Act, a 2015 law, and make some changes to the FISA court.
Trump urged Republicans to oppose the legislation, demanding further investigation into the origins of the FBIs investigation into Russia's election interference and his 2016 campaign.
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/499841-trump-threatens-to-veto-fisa-bill-ahead-of-house-vote
Ford_Prefect
(7,817 posts)cstanleytech
(26,080 posts)the government in the future.
Why he would be afraid though I do not understand because only criminals should be afraid, right?
Steelrolled
(2,022 posts)DanieRains
(4,619 posts)You pile of sh*t.
SWBTATTReg
(21,856 posts)Yeah, sure there has been some rumblings about the scope of the bill, but still. In protecting the American public from terrorists and such...rump's concern is a very minor one and of course he magnifies it to such ridiculous lengths (all about him), especially when viewed w/ the real facts that Russian interests (and others) did try to interfere w/ U.S. elections among other things such as stealing business secrets (mostly China), etc.
And from what I understand, FISA warrants have to be approved by not just 1 judge, but 3 judges.
Botany
(70,282 posts)Let me fix that sentence for you Donny.
Our Country is now suffering from the greatest crime in history. Which was the
rigging of our elections by a hostile foreign power in order to install Donald Trump
and other Republicans in power. Remember that Russ Feingold was @ a 90 to 95%
chance of winning back his senate seat but somehow he lost and in no small part
because Russia was very busy in Wisconsin.*
* Russians suspected of hacking local Dems 1/23/2017
https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/2017/01/23/russians-suspected-hacking-local-dems/96965824/
GREEN BAY - County websites of the Democratic Party in the area have been under attack, at least one apparently by Russian hackers, an officer of the party says.
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Two new users showed up as registered administrators of the website: larisa@steamreal.ru and ewartumba@mail.ru. The .ru suffix indicates a Russian origin, Benson said. The profile pages of the users had characters in the Russian alphabet in "Address" and "About Me" fields, she said.
Code was entered, apparently through a back door, to add two registered users, but the website is set up to automatically block new registrants, so the intruders could do no damage. "It's not clear how they got there," Benson said.
The intruders could just as easily have removed all trace of having been there and just backed quietly out, but they chose to leave their names as if to say we can get in whenever we want, Benson said.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)Botany
(70,282 posts)Donald Trump is President. Russia/Vlad was in all 50 states and they were not there "just
to look around."
not_the_one
(2,227 posts)YUUGELY!
Sad. Bigly.
Botany
(70,282 posts)... and central tabulators and he wasn't there just "to look around." You can tell just how big the
rigging is by the size of the Trump/Fox News/GOP push back to voting by mail.
An early story that brings up 39 states.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-13/russian-breach-of-39-states-threatens-future-u-s-elections
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,773 posts)FakeNoose
(32,328 posts)Chump has to do what his boss tells him. That is all.