Pete Hendrickson (@LostHorizons)

Government Evades The Constitution Section 702 of FISA should be renewed. by Andrew Napolitano (with an important afterword by Yours Truly) Six months ago, FBI officials boasted that in 2022, their agents had spied on only 120,000 Americans without search warrants! Under the Constitution, that number should be zero. This revelation is supposed to give members of Congress comfort that the people we have hired to protect the Constitution are in fact doing so. In reality, the feds continue to assault and violate a core freedom protected by the Constitution — the right to be left alone. The reason for the FBI revelation is the pending expiration of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the bipartisan animosity to its extension. Section 702 is unconstitutional on its face as it directly contradicts the core language of the Fourth Amendment. It permits the feds to conduct warrantless surveillance on foreigners who are either physically or digitally present in the United States and anyone with whom they communicate — American or foreign — who are here. For example, if you call or text or email an art dealer in Florence, Italy, from your home in New Jersey, or your cousin in Switzerland calls or texts or emails you at your home in California, the FBI can monitor those communications without a search warrant. And then the feds can monitor the future calls you make and texts and emails you send and receive. Continued: https://losthorizons.com/N/258.htm#4