The Bruce Variant 🇺🇸 VOTE! (@greenLibertarian)

#FISA Has BECOME the Very ABUSE It Was Created to PREVENT FISA was designed to place guardrails around #government #surveillance, and to ensure that #intelligence agencies would NEVER AGAIN turn the immense power of the state AGAINST the #American people without oversight and accountability. Nearly half a century later, FISA has become the very abuse it was intended to prevent. It's evolved into a vast surveillance architecture capable of vacuuming up the communications of MILLIONs of Americans. The most controversial component of this system is Section 702, which allows intelligence agencies to target #foreign nationals located overseas without obtaining individual warrants. On paper, that sounds reasonable. In practice, however, **Americans who communicate with those foreign targets are swept into the dragnet,** through what the government euphemistically calls “incidental collection.” **There is nothing incidental about it** Congress should resist the temptation to rubber stamp another reauthorization. At a minimum, any future surveillance authority must **REQUIRE WARRANTS for searches involving Americans**, impose genuine transparency, strengthen adversarial review before the FISA Court, and create meaningful consequences for violations. If those reforms cannot be achieved, lawmakers should allow Section 702 to expire. https://www.stonecoldtruth.com/p/fisa-has-become-the-very-abuse-it