USA Rights Act

[Brayden Price]

>USA Rights Act
>4th Amendment
>FISA 702

>The House Rules Committee will allow debate and vote on an amendment authored by Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., that aims to make significant reforms to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

>The FISA Section 702 surveillance powers have been used on Americans, without a warrant, circumventing both the Fourth Amendment and the FISA Amendments' stated intent

>The Amash amendment, called the USA Rights Act, has the bipartisan support of 44 lawmakers in both chambers as well as the backing of outside conservative groups including Tea Party affiliated FreedomWorks.

>The USA Rights Act proposal would add a number of new restrictions to the 702 section of FISA, including one that would end “abouts” collections that currently go beyond the sender fields on electronic communications to include the contents of the messages.

It would also stop so-called reverse targeting of Americans who are caught up in surveillance of foreign communications.

The measure, which is sponsored in the Senate by Ron Wyden, D-Ore., would end backdoor, warrantless searches of the vast data collected under the FISA law, and would strengthen the oversight of the FISA courts and allows outside challenges to the constitutionality of the FISA authority.

>The House Freedom Caucus announced its support for the Amash Amendment and would not back renewal “without significant reforms to ensure that Americans' Fourth Amendment rights are protected.”

>"We think that is unconstitutional, hugely problematic, and we're here to defend the rights of the American people," Amash said this morning at a press conference

>Press Conference, starts @ 36:40

youtube.com/watch?v=4n6cX8SuMWQ

reason.com/blog/2018/01/10/amash-paul-and-others-trying-to-stop-con

washingtonexaminer.com/lawmakers-prep-for-house-floor-battle-to-derail-fisa-surveillance-bill/article/2645402

[Henry Gray]

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[Christian Carter]

>Senator Rand Paul Joins Senator Wyden to Discuss and Demand Surveillance Reforms

youtube.com/watch?v=GR7JbUZYpmU

[Joshua Thomas]

>Press Conference on Congressional Deadline to Reform Government Surveillance (12/19/17)

Senators Rand Paul, Ron Wyden, Patrick Leahy, Mike Lee, and Steve Daines

youtube.com/watch?v=ubvstL2piPw

[Adrian Rogers]

Surveillance State: FISA and the Section 702 Fight

weeklystandard.com/surveillance-state-fisa-and-the-section-702-fight/article/2011087

[Liam Cooper]

It took Democrats abusing the surveillance state for political purposes, but at least this spooked Republicans into pushing for these reforms.

[Grayson James]

>March 2013, oversight hearing, under oath:

Sen. Wyden: “Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions, or hundreds of millions, of Americans?”

DNI James Clapper: “No, sir… Not wittingly. There are cases where they could inadvertently, perhaps, collect. But not wittingly.”

youtube.com/watch?v=AGYn7ER5U_0

[Austin Lewis]

>abusing the surveillance state for political purposes

[Camden Rivera]

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[Andrew Russell]

>"Hover Hammer"
>NSA blimp illegally spied on NY in 2004

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4442256/NSA-blimp-illegally-spied-citizens-New-York.html

[Isaiah Nelson]

>US spies still won’t tell Congress the number of Americans caught in dragnet

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/nsa-spy-law-up-for-renewal-but-feds-wont-say-how-many-americans-targeted/

[Grayson Foster]

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[Adam Roberts]

pray

[Easton Diaz]

Great posts user. CIA niggers must really hate you too., Mockingbird media only "covers" as much as of this stuff as they have to, bu tnever features or rightly explains the significance, so it always gets buried. Thanks

[Jonathan Foster]

>Sen. Rand Paul says he will filibuster surveillance bill if it doesn’t include warrant protections

rare.us/rare-politics/rare-liberty/the-right-to-privacy/rand-paul-says-he-will-filibuster-surveillance-bill-if-it-doesnt-include-warrant-protections/

[Anthony Phillips]

Of course, no blame for the conservatives who enacted the shit in the first place.
Stop looking at only half the corruption you simpleton.

[Elijah Ward]

That's us¡

I'm flattered.

[Hunter White]

>NSA Surveillance Bill Would Legalize Loophole That Allows Spying On Americans Without A Warrant

theintercept.com/2018/01/09/nsa-surveillance-fisa-section-702-reauthorization-fbi/

[Nolan Garcia]

That's what this group in OP's post is opposed to and will be debating/voting on an amendment that will require a standard warrant produced by the government agencies that want to search the 702 database for American citizen data

[Jackson Perry]

Put it this way. We are *all* really lucky that the dirty cops against Trump at the FBI and the crooked officials against him at the DOJ chose this method as how they were going to try to surveil Trump Tower. That fact alone has kept the issue on just enough people's minds and mouths throughout the year. As a result we may actually get to see a real rolling back of some of the most powerful Orwellian powers the US gov gave itself in the post 9/11 era

[Mason Rogers]

>The Amash amendment, called the USA Rights Act, has the bipartisan support of 44 lawmakers in both chambers

[Jack Ward]

>rollback of some of the orwellian powers the US gov gave itself in the post 9/11 era

well said user

The USA Rights Act proposal would add a number of new restrictions to the 702 section of FISA:

(1) End “abouts” collections that currently go beyond the sender fields on electronic communications to include the contents of the messages

(2) Stop so-called reverse targeting of Americans who are caught up in surveillance of foreign communications

(3) End backdoor, warrantless searches of the vast data collected under the FISA law

(4) Strengthen the oversight of the FISA courts

(5) Allow outside challenges to the constitutionality of the FISA authority

[Samuel Sanchez]

Keep bumped to trigger glow in the dark niggers
You can see why they might avoid thread

>(4) Strengthen the oversight of the FISA courts
>(5) Allow outside challenges to the constitutionality of the FISA authority
Those two changes alone are pretty huge in their implications as well. That's a 40+ year old secret court that will now for the first time be open to legal challenging

[Charles Ramirez]

You misread my post.
Republicans never supported repealing the surveillance state, until Democrats attempted to use it against them.

[Cameron Rivera]

Now that they have the surveillance power they will use it against you, and all you have to protect yourself are the leakers.

That are currently being suicided and blamed on the Clintons.

[Benjamin Ramirez]

>House Liberty Caucus Statement On USA Rights Act Amendment

[Jack Gonzalez]

>secret court be open to legal challenging

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authorizes two courts to provide judicial review for U.S. intelligence agencies when their activities require them to monitor people on U.S. soil.

One is FISC, and the other is the court that hears appeals from FISC decisions, the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review (FISCR).

The benches of FISC are comprised of federal judges from regular federal trial courts throughout the nation, and three appellate judges from around the nation comprise the bench of FISCR.

[Leo Roberts]

>Court Criticizes Obama Admin for Illegal Spying on U.S. Citizens

(1/2)

Intelligence agencies violated the constitutional rights of American citizens through illegal surveillance during the Obama administration, recently declassified documents from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) show.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) recently declassified an April 26, 2017, ruling from FISC, detailing violations of Fourth Amendment rights during the final year of the Obama administration.

The problems dealt specifically with Section 702 of FISA. This provision of federal law, found at 50 U.S.C. § 1881a, contains “minimization” procedures for U.S. citizens whose information is scooped up by the intelligence community while those agencies are conducting FISA surveillance.

breitbart.com/big-government/2017/05/29/court-criticizes-obama-admin-for-illegal-spying-on-u-s-citizens/

[Wyatt Williams]

(2/2)

dni.gov/files/documents/icotr/51117/2016_Cert_FISC_Memo_Opin_Order_Apr_2017.pdf

Writing the 99-page opinion for FISC, Judge Rosemary Collyer castigated the Obama administration for failing to follow the Section 702 procedures designed to ensure that the government does not violate Americans’ civil rights as it is performing work that is vitally important to national security. Collyer declared that the previous administration’s cavalier violations of Section 702’s requirements created “a very serious Fourth Amendment issue.”

Collyer sharply criticized the National Security Agency’s inspector general and the NSA’s Office of Compliance for Operations for their “institutional ‘lack of candor,’” signaling that in addition to ignoring legal constraints, the Obama administration was not being honest with the court about its violations of federal law.

The court also criticized the FBI, faulting the domestic agency with distributing “raw FISA information” to a wide array of individuals associated with the bureau, including private contractors who did not need access to the information.

breitbart.com/big-government/2017/05/29/court-criticizes-obama-admin-for-illegal-spying-on-u-s-citizens/

[Mason Kelly]

>Collection details:

PRISM
Upstream

[Jose Butler]

I remember being just jaw dropped when Sara Carter and John Solomon first uploaded that FISC memo opinion when they were working together on Circa. Never had seen a report that recent and that excoriatingly critical of the government declassified and published like that before
Then a day later, NSA posted their statement about stopping abouts queries in upstream data collection

[Liam Murphy]

House FISA Reform Battle Enters Final Stage

(1/2)

>The USA Rights Act is itself a significantly deficient surveillance reform measure.

>The bill does not require the IC/FBI to purge their databases of data on Americans not the subject of a criminal investigation

>It does not mandate the kind of GAO audits that are necessary to truly help end surveillance abuses.

>It also accepts the USG framing that 702 is necessary, legitimate, and effective—assertions I’ve challenged previously.

cato.org/blog/house-fisa-reform-battle-enters-final-stage

[Ryan Davis]

There's going to be negative nancies on here saying that the derp state will still be stealings ur datas.

this is true, but now they won't be able to start investigations or use the information obtained in a court, which makes them practically worthless for our retarded CIA and FBI Niggers who have grown so lazy they don't even remember how to do a proper investigation.

[Brody Taylor]

(2/2)

>Despite those serious flaws, the USA Rights Act is a vastly more comprehensive FISA Sec. 702 reform measure than every existing alternative.

>It restores the 4th Amendment probable cause standard for searches of the data of Americans stored on FBI or IC IT systems

>It makes it easier for innocent Americans to sue the federal government for unlawful spying

>It would, if enacted, give citizens more tools to discover if they are the targets of unlawful or politically-motivated surveillance

>Traditional advocacy on surveillance issues has generally proven ineffectual in stopping, much less rolling back, post-9/11 surveillance powers that we know have been abused.

>The reason is simple. The groups that lobby on these issues do not engage in electoral politics—which means politicans can vote for more surveillance powers in the name of “public safety” without fear of organized, targeted political reprisal from Bill of Rights supporters. Until that dynamic changes, enduring surveillance reform will remain elusive.

cato.org/blog/house-fisa-reform-battle-enters-final-stage

[Anthony Morris]

>I'm thankful you're aware of all these issues user
>Time to redpill normies
>Truth IS the redpill

>The report outlines our government-all three branches, failing to protect Americans' 4th Amendment rights.

dni.gov/files/documents/icotr/51117/2016_Cert_FISC_Memo_Opin_Order_Apr_2017.pdf

>This issue is too important for ANY USA citizen to ignore, and msm is NOT going to cover this issue with the time and attention it requires.

[Samuel Ramirez]

Digits lets make it happen

[Nicholas Thomas]

>The House Intelligence Committee’s Section 702 Bill is a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

justsecurity.org/50801/house-intelligence-committees-section-702-bill-wolf-sheeps-clothing/

[Jace Turner]

It's a call your Representatives and Senators moment. The more they hear the sooner they hear it could have an impact

[Lincoln Cooper]

>Congress Is Debating Warrantless Surveillance In The Dark

wired.com/story/section-702-warrantless-surveillance-debate/

[Isaiah Wright]

>call your Representatives and Senators
indeed.

>Americans should publically hear the position of EVERY House Representative and Senator on this issue.

>The People want reform

[Jack Wilson]

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[Luke Hughes]

The Way the NSA Uses Section 702 is Deeply Troubling

eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/way-nsa-uses-section-702-deeply-troubling-heres-why

[Carter Collins]

Do it in 2021

[Henry Gonzalez]

Wouldnt you love to hear him give an extended answer on a question related to this?

[Jose Price]

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[Andrew Lee]

I would love to see him do this as a sarcastic tweet. Sonething like:

>cant wait till 2020 so i can write a story about the democrats urinating on my bed in Trump Tower so i can spy on them for a year... sure hope they dont stand up for the 4th amendment rights of every american by supporting Rand Pauls bill

The media would have to hyperventilate about it so everyone would hear it for a week straight

[Brandon Brooks]

>Groups Line Up For Meaningful NSA Surveillance Reform

eff.org/deeplinks/2018/01/groups-line-meaningful-nsa-surveillance-reform

[Adrian Brooks]

>Everything you need to know about PRISM

theverge.com/2013/7/17/4517480/nsa-spying-prism-surveillance-cheat-sheet

[Nathan Bennett]

Pretty great idea t.b.h.

[Bentley Collins]

>Alphabet Soup Acronyms Definitions

[Thomas Gonzalez]

Sounds great, the Neo Cons and Globalists will never let it get passed though.

[Angel Foster]

>End Warrantless Deep State Spying

reason.com/reasontv/2017/09/11/dont-renew-702-end-warrantless-surveilla

[Aiden Robinson]

Bump

[Gabriel Miller]

That pretty much covers about 45 Senators and 9 tenths of the House.