Thread by @BasedMikeLee

🧵 🚨 Update Re: FISA 702 🚨

1. Just as the House was making progress on FISA reforms, the GOP “Intel Bros”demanded that the House adjourn—without reforming FISA 702 or even prohibiting warrantless “backdoor” searches of American citizens under FISA 702.

2. I stand by my prediction from December: the Intel Bros will likely (1) seek another FISA 702 certification from the FISA court between now and early April, and then (2) argue that 702 operations may proceed until 2025, even if 702 expires in mid-April. They’ll rely on this language from 2018:

3. If they don’t rely on the above-referenced language from 2018 (passed in the middle of the night as part of a shady-as-heck spending measure, as I recall), then the Intel Bros will almost certainly push to reauthorize FISA 702 in an omnibus spending bill—a shady one, no doubt.

4. The Intel Bros must be stopped in their effort to perpetuate warrantless, backdoor searches against American citizens. FISA needs aggressive reforms. Congress must pass the Government Surveillance Reform Act (which @RonWyden and I introduced together), or something similar.

5. If you share my concerns about FISA 702 and warrantless surveillance of Americans, please share this thread and tell representatives and senators to demand aggressive FISA reforms and oppose the Intel Bros in any effort to (1) reauthorize 702, either through an omnibus or otherwise, without a warrant requirement, and (2) condemn the Intel Bros for even THINKING about using trickery to avoid any need for reauthorization until 2025.

6. The Intel Bros™️ don’t want to vote on serious reforms to FISA 702 because they are scared to death that those reforms will pass—because the American people are demanding them!

7. The Intel Bros™️ and The Firm™️ work hand in hand—to the point that it’s often hard to differentiate one from the other.