House Speaker Mike Johnson betrayed liberty and the Constitution by making a full-court press to get a "Clean" reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act through the House.
When the FISA Act was passed, surveillance state boosters promised that 702 warrantless surveillances would never be used against American citizens.
Intelligence agencies could then also conduct warrantless surveillance on any Americans who communicated with the new American target.
Speaker Johnson agreed to allow a vote on the House floor on an amendment requiring federal officials to get a warrant before subjecting any American to surveillance.
The case against adding a warrant requirement to FISA consisted of hysterical claims that forcing the surveillance state to obey the Fourth Amendment would make Americans vulnerable to terrorist attacks.
Snowden, who worked as a government contractor for the National Security Agency, posted in a message on X that the warrant amendment would not stop federal agencies from acting without a warrant in a "Ticking time bomb" situation.
The amendment would have passed had Speaker Johnson not cast a rare floor vote against the amendment.
https://ronpaulinstitute.org/fisa-exchanges-real-liberty-for-phantom-security/
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