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Rand Paul: Trump Isn’t Going to Reauthorize FISA Without Major Reforms

While everyone was busy with Super Tuesday results Tuesday night, Republican Senator Rand Paul was at the White House meeting with President Trump about the FISA court, which is up for reauthorization.

According to Senator Paul, President Trump won’t issue final approval for FISA in the coming weeks unless serious reforms are made.

“I just came from the White House and the President made it absolutely clear, no quibbling about it, absolutely clear he will not sign clean reauthorization of the Patriot Act unless we reform FISA,” Paul told Fox Business host Lou Dobbs. “The proposal I gave him was this: don’t use FISA, which is a foreign intelligence court, to spy on Americans. Simply say that Americans, if you want to spy on them, you have to go to a constitutional, Article III court to get the wiretap. This would protect Americans from the abuses that happened in the Trump campaign, but these abuses could happen to Republicans or Democrats if we have biased people in the FBI or the intelligence agencies. So I think the best reform is lets take Americans out of FISA and lets keep the foreign surveillance court targeted toward foreigners.”



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Democrats in the House are refusing to reform the FISA court ahead of the March 15 deadline for expiration.

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Florida man arrested in IHOP restaurant after police say he stabbed a rideshare driver
Dem ‘Epstein class’ attack backfires as top candidates funded by Epstein-tied billionaire
Muslim Dem Candidate Exposes Flaw in Wokeness Allyship, Now Says She’s Getting Silenced Because She Didn’t Embrace LGBT Agenda
Cuba built covert network inside America through spies, activists and universities, State Dept alleges
Pentagon Releases Video of Latest Strikes on Iran After Trump Orders Revenge for Fallen US Troops
Two House races take center stage as conservative PAC launches multimillion-dollar Big Tech push
Jeff Clark’s yearslong disbarment fight tests reach of DC Bar over Trump DOJ
Trump’s GOP clout faces Arizona test with House majority, governor’s race at stake
DOJ’s creative solution to transgender prison case would move male inmates into specialized unit
DOJ opens probe into Harvard’s financial aid for alleged discrimination against American students

 

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In January, the FISA court issued a memo verifying that spying on Trump campaign official Carter Page was improper and unwarranted based on information withheld from the court by the FBI. Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz also found rampant abuse of the system.

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