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My understanding is that there's a carveout that prevents warrantless surveillance of members of Congress. Which takes a special kind of cognitive dissonance t
by CSMastermind 2y ago
My understanding is that there's a carveout that prevents warrantless surveillance of members of Congress.
Which takes a special kind of cognitive dissonance to be like, "This is fine for thee but not for me"
- kjkjadksj 2y agoProbably a quid pro quo arrangement they don’t want the FBI to be privvy to.
- psychlops 2y ago> prevents warrantless surveillance of members of Congress While I have a dim view of Congress, even they aren't dumb enough to believe that would hold true. Every other "exception" has been ignored in the quest for gathering every scrap of data.
- koolba 2y agoIt wasn’t ignored. They were accidentally recorded as part of a different, unrelated, simultaneous, totally coincidental monitoring of somebody else.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> there's a carveout that prevents warrantless surveillance of members of Congress Source?
- CSMastermind 2y agohttps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/massie-grilled-fisa-for-more-than-an-hour-he-found-a-congressional-carve-out/ar-BB1lpfb8 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/massie-grilled-fisa-... “I take objection with the fact that members of Congress get treated specially in this law over regular citizens,” Massie said.
- JumpCrisscross 2y agoIt’s a caveated notice requirement “to Congressional leadership” and “the member who is the subject” of the query, unless the Director of the FBI “determines such notification would impede an ongoing national security or law enforcement investigation” [1]. Not a warrant requirement. Not even a right to notice. Pretty milquetoast. [1] https://www.congress.gov/118/bills/hr6611/BILLS-118hr6611ih.pdf https://www.congress.gov/118/bills/hr6611/BILLS-118hr6611ih.... § 103
- Nasrudith 2y agoThey're already violating the constitution so why not add another violation on top of it?
- RIMR 2y agoYeah, no need to surveil the government insiders giving tours of the capital to now-convicted seditionists. No national security threat to address there...