Dec. 6, 2023, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging House passage of the bipartisan “Protect Liberty and End Warrantless Surveillance Act”:
“House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan has been tasked with investigating and making recommendations on how to end the weapononization of the federal government. Unfortunately, the House Intelligence Committee, which had direct oversight over FISA surveillance abuses including Russiagate, mass surveillance and spying on members of Congress and their staff, has become little more than an apologist for those who they were created to oversee and regulate. Jordan’s bipartisan FISA reforms fall far short of completely restoring the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, however, they do put in place significant restrictions and safeguards against the inevitable future abuse we know will occur. Given that the House Intelligence Committee has historically, with the exception of Devin Nunes, failed to protect civil liberties and conduct proper oversight of what can only be described as a mass surveillance system that has been used for politics, any intelligence community proposals to police themselves should rejected.”
Attachments:
The Protect Liberty and End Warrantless Surveillance Act at https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/hr_-plewsa-bill-text.pdf
“House GOP bill restricts the use of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act,” By Robert Romano, Americans for Limited Government Foundation, Dec. 6, 2023 at https://dailytorch.com/2023/12/house-gop-bill-restricts-the-use-of-the-foreign-intelligence-surveillance-act-but-it-wouldnt-have-stopped-russiagate-or-mass-surveillance/
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