{"id":53000,"date":"2023-12-11T14:08:57","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T19:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=53000"},"modified":"2023-12-11T14:08:57","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T19:08:57","slug":"more-spying-on-american-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=53000","title":{"rendered":"More Spying On American Citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Periodically I highlight an article I don’t fully understand. This is one of those times. On Saturday, The Conservative Treehouse<\/a> posted an article about the changes made to \u00a0HR 6611<\/a>, the 2023 FISA reauthorization bill. The changes don’t protect innocent Americans from being spied upon–they make things worse. The article includes a link to the bill.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) Chairman Mike Turner\u00a0is celebrating<\/a>\u00a0the passage of\u00a0HR 6611<\/a>, the 2023 FISA reauthorization bill.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chairman Turner would have granted a clean FISA renewal, he\u2019s that kind of Republican; however, several Republicans demanded changes to the FISA-702 authorities that capture the data of American citizens without a warrant.\u00a0 Thus, the HPSCI modified the authorities within HR 6611, but they made it worse.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(Via CDT<\/a>) (Center for Democracy & Technology) \u2013 Tucked away near the end of the bill the House Intelligence Committee reported on December 7 (H.R. 6611<\/a>, the \u201cHPSCI bill\u201d) is a provision that would dramatically expand surveillance under the controversial Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (\u201cFISA 702\u201d), which sunsets on December 31 unless reauthorized. Section 504 of the bill, innocuously captioned \u201cDefinition of Electronic Communications Service Provider,\u201d would expand the types of entities that can be compelled to disclose internet communications whether in storage or in transit.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

FISA 702 permits the U.S. government to compel communication service providers to disclose for foreign intelligence purposes the communications of persons reasonably believed to be non-U.S. persons abroad. No warrant is required; a belief that the communications relate to U.S. foreign affairs or national security is sufficient.\u00a0 Under current FISA 702, only entities that provide communication services like email, calls, and text messaging can be compelled to disclose these communications.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

As FISA Court amicus and longtime practitioner Marc Zwilligener and his colleague Steve Lane have already\u00a0noted<\/a>, the HPSCI bill would upend the current system, enabling the government to compel\u00a0anyone\u00a0with mere access to the equipment on which such communications are stored or transmitted to disclose those communications.\u00a0 That could include personnel at coffee shops that offer WiFi to their customers, a town library that offers public computer internet services, hotels, shared workspaces, landlords and even AirBNB hosts that offer WiFi to the people who stay there, cloud storage services that host but do not access data, and large data centers that rent out computer server space to their clients.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

At this point, the only way to stop the formation of a full-scale Stasi in America is to vote all Democrats out of office and drain the swamp. President Trump is the only person who even remotely has a chance of draining the swamp–that’s why the deep state is coming against him so hard.<\/p>\n

Please follow the link to read the entire article. Our privacy as Americans is at stake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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