Standing shoulder to shoulder with Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump appeared at a Friday press conference at Mar-a-Lago. The purpose of the event was to announce the details of an upcoming Congressional bill to ensure illegal aliens don't hurt the integrity of U.S. elections in November--especially on the federal level.
Former President Donald Trump said on Friday he is 'not a fan' of the controversial spy tool that was reauthorized in the House that morning.
The House voted 273 to 147 Friday in favor of reauthorizing the surveillance bill that has been exploited by the FBI hundreds of thousands of times to spy on American citizens. Only 59 Republicans reportedly voted against renewing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The bill is now headed to the Senate, where it will likely be passed before the April 19 deadline, to the great satisfaction of its champions in the Biden administration, members of the the House...
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Donald Trump on Friday endorsed a primary challenger to Rep. Dan Newhouse of Washington, one of two remaining House Republicans who voted to impeach the former president over his role in the Jan. 6 riot. In a Truth Social post, Trump threw his support behind Jerrod Sessler, a former petty-officer in the Navy who has gone after Newhouse for his impeachment vote. "Jerrod Sessler is a fantastic candidate and will be a GREAT Congressman for Washington State’s 4th Congressional District," Trump...
The House on Friday voted to reauthorize a key U.S. spy program considered crucial to national security.
After Donald Trump’s defeat in 2020, former Attorney General Bill Barr seemed eager to put some distance between himself and the president he went to radical lengths to serve. In early 2021, for example, the Republican lawyer accused Trump of “inexcusable” behavior on Jan. 6. “The president’s conduct yesterday was a betrayal of his office,” Barr said the day after the insurrectionist attack on the Capitol. A few months later, Barr sat down with ABC News’ Jonathan Karl and went a little further....
The House of Representatives has voted to reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act days after some Republicans blocked the legislation from reaching the floor without their demands. NBC News' Ryan Nobles reports on the vote and the amendment that would have limited warrantless surveillance that failed to pass.
President Biden this weekend signed into law a bill that reauthorizes a controversial spying program under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Section 702 of FISA, which has now been extended for two more years, allows for warrantless intelligence gathering on foreign targets. While its focus is on the communications of targets located outside the US, that includes any exchanges with people stateside, meaning Americans’ records can get swept up in these collections too. The Senate...
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted to reauthorize a powerful surveillance tool the U.S. government describes as critical to combating terrorism, after defeating efforts by civil liberties advocates on the left and right to rein it in. The vote of 60-34 sends the bill to President Joe Biden, who has championed it. The legislation extends Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, for two more years. The final vote came after the Senate defeated six amendments from progressive...
WASHINGTON (KTVZ) -- Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., vowed Friday to "do everything in my power" to stop House-passed legislation that would reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and expand warrantless surveillance. “The House bill represents one of the most dramatic and terrifying expansions of government surveillance authority in history,” Wyden said. “It allows
Former Attorney General Bill Barr appears to be endorsing Donald Trump in 2024 after years of decrying the former president, according to a new report. “I’ve said all along, given two bad choices, I think it’s my duty to pick the person I think would do the least harm to the country, and in my mind, that’s — I will vote the Republican ticket, " Barr said in a Fox News appearance last year. Barr, a lifelong Republican, served as Trump's second attorney general from 2019 to 2020. Barr then...