FISA 702 Surveillance Authority Expires April 19th As President Trump Opposes Reauthorization
By Sundance
FISA-702 authorization expires April 19th, however, almost everybody of influence in DC knows the Intelligence Community will not stop exploiting the NSA database, regardless of said expiration.
Meaning, with or without this authority, the Gang-of-Eight, Office of the Presidency, Legislative Branch, and every institution within the DC system, all collectively understand that the FBI, DOJ, NSD, DNI and DHS will still use the database.
From that perspective, reauthorization of 702 only seeks to make lawful what the Intelligence Community will do unlawfully without it. Please think about that last sentence carefully as you consider who runs our Government.
Thankfully, President Trump understands how the FISA system is used as the main tool of the IC to retain power. Specifically, without legal use of 702 authority – and if the IC was held to account for the violations therein – all the power could shift dramatically in the DC system.
However, key people in congress make money from reauthorizing 702. Think about how those 10,000 workstations are used, and for what purposes over 1.1 million “illegal database searches” could be exploited in Biden’s first year.
Office of Inspector General Michael Horowitz testified that more than 3.4 million search queries into the NSA database took place between Dec. 1st, 2020 and Nov. 30th, 2021, by government officials and/or contractors working on behalf of the federal government.
These search queries were based on authorizations related to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Approximately 30% of those 3.4 million search queries were outside the rules and regulations that govern warrantless searches, what the politically correct government calls “non-compliant searches.”
That means more than 1 million searches of private documents and communication of Americans were illegal and outside the rules. Additionally, IG Horowitz also admitted that somewhere north of 10,000 federal employees have access to conduct these searches of the NSA database.
A database which contains the electronic data of every single American, including emails, text messages, social media posts, instant messages, direct messages, phone calls, geolocation identifiers, purchases by electronic funds, banking records and any keystroke any American person puts into any electronic device for any reason.
If we were in a functioning system of government, everything would be stopped and no conversation would be taking place that was not about this issue. This is a complete surveillance state being talked about as if discussing what’s for dinner.
This Was Jaw-Dropping
Context: In 2018 CTH revealed through research of their own documents that FBI and DOJ/FBI contractors had done more than 1,000 illegal searches using the NSA database, targeting Republican primary candidates from November 2015 through May 2016.
These stunning admissions were from the DOJ’s own reporting to the FISA court. Few were paying attention. Although the number of the illegal search queries were redacted, we know the number is four digits from the size of the redacted text. More than 1,000 and less than 9,999.
Fast Forward To April 27, 2023
IG Horowitz outlined that more than 1.1 million illegal searches of this database were conducted in 2021 during the first year of the Joe Biden administration.
Additionally, and perhaps more consequentially, to give scope to how the process of total domestic surveillance has expanded, Horowitz now admits in 2021 the number of federal government employees with access to this total metadata collection system now exceeds 10,000 people.
Stop The Presses!
Yes, congress is talking about this ‘as if’ there is some level of importance. However, the basic questions are not being asked, or have perhaps just become so accepted that legislators have become oblivious to the insanity of it.
Beyond the blood boiling questions about searching the NSA database, questions like: In order for these search queries to take place, there has to be a housing facility to capture it.
Where is all of this electronic data being stored?
Why is all of this electronic data being stored?
Who is in control of this all-encompassing electronic data collection?
Forget the searches for a moment, what act of congress authorized the capture of this private data collection? Essentially, electronic intercepts of communication systems that flow throughout our life.
The background context here is congress debating the renewal of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the power of the DOJ and FBI to intercept American citizen communication and electronic data via the “702” authorizations, that permit the NSA database to be searched and queried.
If the inspector general is now admitting the FISA laws have been so comprehensively corrupted such that 3.4 million searches by more than 10,000 federal employees and government contractors now have access, there is no way that any reasonably intelligent person should support such reauthorization. Even contemplating this request is absurd, beyond absurd.
The United States government is publically admitting the current existence of a comprehensive surveillance state, where 10,000 federal agents have the authorization to monitor everything we do. And yet, most people warn about ‘digital currencies’, and ‘social credit scores’ in a future sense, while being blithely unaware of this already stark and current reality.