First, the Intelligence Community tells congress, particularly the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, that all hell will break loose if they don't reauthorize full electronic surveillance of Americans.
Johnson and most Republicans believe the IC nonsense.
The politicians and their key staff cannot fathom how the FBI, DOJ, NSD, DHS and contractors use this database to conduct political and "Other" surveillance.
They really do think the IC is full of honorable rank-and-file.
They say: "My god, we need to monitor the terrorists, and if you take away 702 the foreign terror cells will activate and start killing us all. Do you want that blood on your hands?" You cannot take away surveillance tools.
Third, FISA 702 reauthorization is used as a bargaining chip by people who don't want to get caught up in the surveillance.
We The People do not have any friends in DC on this issue. The Democrats will reauthorize 702 to continue exploiting surveillance authority – don’t forget over 10,000 log-in portals with access to the NSA database exist, including the workstation at Perkins Coie that ties into the NSA database {GO DEEP}.
President Trump finally opposes the FISA system - writ large - and THAT is progress.
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