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If the #Senate votes on Friday on the reauthorization of #Section702 of the #ForeignIntelligenceSurveillanceAct, the #US will become a #SurveillanceState. And if #TFG is readmitted into the #Whitehouse, together with #Project2025, the #ThirdReich, #Orwell's #1984, and #Fahrenheit451 combined will look like a paler image of what the future #US tyrant will be able to do.
Almost any business that provides wifi...
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...to its customers could be conscripted into service...
No #democracy should give its government the #Orwellian power contained in the House bill. The #Senate must take the time it needs to get this right, or our democracy will pay the price.
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#BreakingNews
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#Legal #USpol #SurveillanceState #Surveillance
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Via #TheIntercept:
"#FBI’s #Warrantless Search Ruled #Unconstitutional in a Blow to Government Spying"
My question:
Will the constant violation of #US #American's 4th Amendment rights by the FBI end up freeing a confessed would-be #Terrorist?-- A bedrock principal of US law, the #FruitOfThePoisonousTree doctrine might end up saving the imprisoned convict...
https://theintercept.com/2025/01/27/fbi-government-spying-surveillance-702-fisa/
#BreakingNews
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...after more than a decade?
Via #TheIntercept;
"The #FBI trawled #NSA records without a warrant to investigate a man suspected of trying to join a terror group, prosecutors admit...
a warrant requirement on “backdoor” searches of NSA data collected under #Section702 of the #ForeignIntelligenceSurveillance Act, known as #FISA,..."
“This is a major constitutional ruling on one of the...
#BreakingNews
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...most abused provisions of FISA,” #PatrickToomey, the deputy director of #AmericanCivilLibertiesUnion’s #NationalSecurityProject, which filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case, said in a statement.
👉“As the court recognized, the #FBI’s rampant digital searches of Americans are an immense invasion of privacy, and trigger the bedrock protections of the Fourth Amendment.👈
👉#Section702...
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...is long overdue for reform by Congress👈, and this opinion shows why.”
"The 👉surveillance law will be up for debate again in April 2026.👈 Liberal critics of the law hope to join forces with MAGA skeptics of government overreach to add the warrant provision — and Crocker said he thinks the court’s ruling will help."
"👉#Hasbajrami’s appeal of...
#BreakingNews
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...his guilty plea offered a rare opportunity to mount a legal challenge to a spy regime that is often so shrouded in secrecy that it cannot be challenged in court,👈 per #SupremeCourt precedent."
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Read on:
https://theintercept.com/2025/01/27/fbi-government-spying-surveillance-702-fisa/
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
