There's an old saying: Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.
They ARE after you.
The Government's Secret Police Intel people absolutely must have Section 702 FISA courts in operation. That's why the Senate Intel Committee jackals (Cotton, e.g.) demanded that either Tulsi Gabbard back S.702 or go home. Suddenly, Gabbard accepted 702, so she will become DNI. (Integrity? WHAT "integrity"?)
...The FISA system is a designated secret court system that is said to only pertain to “foreign nationals.”
Ok, so if we accept the premise. Foreign nationals do not have U.S. constitutional protection. So why does the surveillance and intercept of them require secret U.S. courts?...
...There is no need for a secret court for either foreign nationals or U.S citizens. The former do not have constitutional protection, and the latter should not lose it under arbitrary determinations of U.S govt officials....
Are we clear there?
Good.
So what's really going on?
...Real ID, Digital ID, AI used in facial recognition systems, and the larger issue of track and trace capability of U.S. citizen data (connecting your physical identity to a digital fingerprint), requires some legal justification to create a surveillance network DESPITE the 4th amendment.
FISA-702 is the proverbial camel’s nose under the tent of privacy....
...Finding a way to surveil Americans, while working around the constitutional protection in place to stop it, is why the FISA-702 issue has become more important for those who are building the surveillance system under the guise of national security.
Challenge the legal justification for FISA-702, and you throw a massive wrench in the machinery of a growing surveillance state.
If you are secure in your papers and effects, you cannot be forced to “show your papers.”
Right now, the monitoring system [is being] designed so they can get the answers to your identity, without having to ask you to show your papers, which is unconstitutional....
They ARE after you. Maybe not today, or tomorrow, but.....
...However, what happens at the checkpoint (bank, atm machine, employment verification, port of entry or even voting booth) when government identifies you (for whatever arbitrary reason they construct) as a “politically exposed person.”...
But some animals are more equal than others!
...Don’t think congress is stupid about this, they know exactly what is going on. They understand just how dangerous this is; that’s why in the last FISA-702 reauthorization, congress literally wrote into the renewal that federal representatives cannot be subject to the FISA-702 rules.
All members of congress must be notified in advance, if their private metadata is going to be reviewed by the FBI, DOJ or any entity with access to the NSA full spectrum database library. They exempted themselves and secured their 4th amendment protections exclusively for themselves....
Watching Zuckerberg pretend that F**kBook is 'going straight'--a flat-out lie that will be copied by Musk, Google, (etc.)--should have provoked intense bitter laughter, as it did among a lot of people I know. Watching Rogan swallow that at face value was truly disgusting.
Think this is 'tempest in a teapot' territory?
Ask any of the J6 prisoners about that.
1 comment:
"Foreign nationals do not have U.S. constitutional protection."
I don't think that's accurate. There are some respects in which a foreign national, especially if resident in a place outside of the US, does not have all and exactly the same protections as a citizen. However, if they're inside the US they do have almost the same constitutional protections: the USG can't legitimately infringe on their freedom of speech, for example, or dispose of due process of law.
The FISA court is a problem mostly because the secrecy of the court has allowed it to become a rubber stamp for prosecutors/investigators/spies. If it were a genuinely adversarial process, it could be a helpful protection. It isn't, though, and hasn't been for a long time.
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